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Articles tagged "politics".
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Why the Health of Americans Will Decline and What Psychotherapists Should Do About It
Compared to Peer Countries, Americans Are Sicker One metric of a country’s overall health is its citizens’ life expectancy from birth. Life expectancy in the United States peaked at 79.3 years in 2024, with only negligible increases in recent decades. In contrast, life expectancy in other high-income countries has increased significantly over the same period […]
Samuel Knapp, Ed.D., ABPP
May 6, 2026
Legislative Protection of Identity Variables in Mental and Behavioral Health Research
We are writing to express our grave concern regarding Executive Order [EO]14168 (regarding Gender Ideology) and Executive Order [EO] 14151 (regarding Government DEI Programs). Executive Order 14168 mandates that federal agencies stop using gender identity-related terms in all official agency business, materials, and policies. Executive Order 14151 directs the termination of all mandates, programs, and […]
Wilson T. Trusty, Ph.D + 3 more
February 21, 2025
A Most Queer Language: The Case Against an All-Inclusive Buffet in Therapy
The vantage point of a queer-identifying therapist is uniquely translucent; I see some things in sharp resolution, while there are other things that remain opaque. How does a queer therapist affirm a queerness that endangers them as well? How does a queer therapist affirm a queerness that bemuses them? Sitting across from a patient tussling […]
Damini Yadav, MS
September 22, 2024
How We Pay for Therapy, or, Imagine a World Without a Fee
These were the contradictory messages I received about one of the most anxiety-provoking tasks of the budding new therapist and entrepreneur–setting your fees. The first time we set our fee often reflects how we feel about the act of charging for psychotherapy, not how your clinic, your hospital, or your supervisor are paid. But how […]
Daniel Jose Gaztambide, Psy.D.
August 27, 2020
Ripple Effects
The day after the 2016 election dawned cloudy and rainy in Washington, DC. As I awoke from a few hours of fitful sleep to drive to work, I felt shocked, disoriented, and confused. The long election season had intensified political divisions, information silos, alternate worldviews, extreme partisan attacks, and disrespect and disgust for the other […]
David B. Sacks, Psy.D., ABPP
May 4, 2018
Navigating the Minefield of Politics in the Therapy Session
If, indeed, the personal is political and the political is personal, where does that leave psychotherapists—whose profession is intensely personal—when clients voice strong political views counter to ours or when their political stress resonates with our own sense of a rending of the civic and cultural fabric of the country? In the aftermath of one […]
Patricia T. Spangler, Ph.D. + 3 more
December 30, 2017
Public Policy Challenges
Over the past several months I have started many times to write articles for the Bulletin, and each time my thoughts have been hijacked by yet another massive assault on the collective values of our profession. The preamble to the APA Ethics Code (2010, with amendments as of January 1, 2017) makes it clear that […]
Rosemary Adam-Terem, Ph.D.
April 7, 2017
The Politics of Mental Health
On January 20, 2017, Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States due to his overwhelming Electoral College victory over Hilary Clinton in November 2016. Throughout this long and seemingly never-ending election cycle, the ferocity of the primary battles and the eventual bedlam between the two major party candidates left […]
Jonathan Jenkins, Psy.D.
December 31, 2016