Education & Training
This section is dedicated to advancing the knowledge, skills, and professional development of psychotherapists at all stages of their careers. Explore resources, guidance, and innovative practices that support ongoing learning and the highest standards of psychotherapy.
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The Role of Empathic Listening in Rupture-Repair Training
The association between the therapeutic alliance and outcome is now well-established and widely known (Flückiger et al., 2018), highlighting a need to better understand the factors that influence the quality of the alliance. Thinking around therapists’ capacities to establish and maintain the alliance has grown increasingly sophisticated, as researchers have long-investigated ruptures and repairs in […]
Shannon L. McIntyre, Ph.D.
April 9, 2023
The Supervision Experience for an International Therapist Trainee Working in Her Second Language
Psychotherapy involves talk, regardless of theoretical foundations. Therapist and client(s) engage in verbal, non-verbal, and paraverbal exchanges to communicate about their experiences and co-create meanings of the experiences. The exchanges between two or more people can be so powerful that they can facilitate clients’ desired changes. The beauty and science of the therapeutic conversation has […]
Mira An
January 5, 2023
How to teach students to live life as a psychologist: Embedding a self-care perspective into psychology training
In discussing the training of surgeons Campbell wrote, “In the classical training program we have taught how to perform surgery, but we have not taught how to live life as a surgeon” (2001, p. 702). How well have we taught our psychology students to live life as a psychologist? Ideally, our students will learn to […]
Samuel Knapp, Ed.D., ABPP
January 5, 2023
Telehealth Training Considerations in a Community Healthcare Setting
Many articles have been written about the logistical transition to telehealth in training as a result of COVID-19 (Bell et al., 2020; Hames et al., 2020; Rosen, Glassman & Moreland, 2020; Perrin et al., 2020; Scharff, et al., 2020, Tarlow et al., 2020). Chenneville and Scwartz-Mette (2020) as well as Desai et al., (2020) write […]
Chelsea McIntosh, PsyD + 5 more
August 14, 2022
Virtue, Flourishing, and Positive Psychology in Psychotherapy
Abstract Researchers have increasingly called for the examination of both mental health symptoms and well-being when providing and evaluating psychotherapy, and although symptoms and well-being are typically inversely related, these appear to be distinct constructs that may require distinct intervention strategies. Positive psychology interventions, virtue-based treatments, and psychotherapies explicitly focused on promoting well-being have emerged in response to, or […]
Peter Jankowski, Ph.D. + 6 more
September 25, 2020
10 Grant-writing Tips for Novice Grant-writers From the Desk of the Most Reluctant of All Grant-writers
This article is written for everyone in mental health who has a great idea and a shortage of cash. It is informed by a 20-year career with countless funding applications and almost $5M in awards. That $5M doesn’t reflect some innate grant-writing talent, rather, it reflects persistence and the efforts of great teams and some […]
Kim A. Gorgens, Ph.D., ABPP
November 10, 2019
Top 5 Lessons Gained in Working with Dr. Jeffrey Barnett
This past December, Dr. Jeffrey Barnett stepped down from his leadership role as Publications Chair of the Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy. Dr. Barnett has been instrumental in the mentorship, guidance, and friendship he has bestowed to me. In reflecting over the past four years of knowing and working with him, I found myself […]
Amy E. Ellis, Ph.D.
June 17, 2018
Top 5 Components of “Good Enough” Supervision
In the Fall 2015 semester we completed a graduate course in clinical supervision. We discussed the purpose of clinical supervision, ethical and legal issues, theoretical models, countertransference and interpersonal variables impacting supervision, evaluation and feedback, how to build specific trainee skills, working with impaired trainees, and supervisor self-care. A frequent reaction for all of us (including […]
Jessica Campoli, B.A., Honours + 5 more
June 5, 2016