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Climate Change and Psychotherapy
This video is an interview with a Certified Eco-therapist, Lezlie Scaliatine. She explores her personal experience during the wildfires of 2017 in California. Dr. Scaliatine also provides a useful starting point for therapists wanting to incorporate issues related to climate change in their work.
Lezlie Scaliatine, PsyD
April 18, 2023
Thoughts About Relating to Clients in an Atheoretical Way
This author’s article titled Two Aspects Are Preventing Psychotherapy from Being More Effective was posted on the SAP website in 2022. The first aspect proposed that psychotherapy does not have an effective enough of an understanding of its subject matter. This author further proposed that (a) the typical client’s presenting problem has (until shown otherwise) […]
Jeffrey Von Glahn, Ph.D.
April 16, 2023
“Heard A Sound, Turned Around, Looking Up, Looking Down”
The Politically Divided 118th Congress: NBC News recently noted that more than 50 years ago, two female lawmakers led a Congressional Committee for the first time: the House of Representatives Select Committee on the Beauty Shop. This Congress, women will hold all four of the top positions on the House and Senate Appropriations Committees for […]
Pat DeLeon, Ph.D.
April 9, 2023
How Psychotherapists Can Promote Psychotherapy: A Study of Teachers’ Referral Decisions
Psychotherapy research often focuses on the client and the psychotherapist, but rarely on other stakeholders. This is reasonable given that the client and the psychotherapist are the sole players in a psychotherapy session; understanding how they each contribute to the session will illuminate a significant part of the process and outcome of psychotherapy. However, one […]
Harold Chui, Ph.D.
April 9, 2023
Addressing Religion and Spirituality in Psychotherapy: Ethical and Clinical Perspectives
Psychotherapists strive to provide their clients with the best treatment possible, something highly dependent on our ability to achieve high standards of competence. An important aspect of one’s clinical competence that has received increasing attention in recent years is multicultural competence. It is recognized that a psychotherapist cannot be clinically competent without being multicultural competent […]
Jeffrey E. Barnett, Psy.D., ABPP
April 9, 2023
Shame and Self-Stigma Among Suicidal Patients
Many psychotherapists have treated patients who denied suicidal ideation, and then attempted suicide later. This can leave the treating psychotherapists upset, bewildered, and asking what they could have done differently. Sometimes patients who unexpectedly attempted suicide developed their suicidal thoughts after their psychotherapists asked them about suicide. At other times, these patients already had suicidal […]
Samuel Knapp, Ed.D., ABPP
April 9, 2023
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
2023 Editor’s Column 58(1)
Happy 2023! While many of you may be quite used to the change in the calendar by now, at the Bulletin, this is our first opportunity to welcome you to a new and exciting year of events and opportunities with Division 29. Thank you for your membership and for your role in helping the Society […]
Joanna M. Drinane, Ph.D.
April 9, 2023
2023 President’s Column 58(1)
As I write my first column for the Bulletin as the Division 29 President for 2023, I want to thank you for entrusting me with the leadership of SAP at this time. And I want to thank Dr. Clara Hill for her magnificent service as president of Division 29 before me and currently as past-President. […]
Jean Birbilis, Ph.D.
April 7, 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
“We’ve Been Standing on Your Shoulders, Pete, for Oh, So Many Years… There’s a Banjo Ringing Somewhere and a Yodel in the Air”
“Blue Sky” Thinking – Emerging Trends, Priorities, and Opportunities: The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) released its Special Publication Priorities on the Health Horizon: Informing PCORI’s Strategic Plan in 2021. The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) was established as a component of President Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act with the mission of identifying […]
Pat DeLeon, Ph.D.
January 5, 2023
Integrating culture and religion/spirituality with evidence-based treatments for underserved groups
Individuals from minoritized backgrounds often lack access to adequate evidence-based care. Many are reluctant to seek professional psychological help (Cook et al., 2017), and those who do are more likely to drop out of treatment prematurely (Mowbray et al., 2018). The underutilization of mental health treatment is in part due to higher stigma of mental […]
Salman Shaheen Ahmad, M.S. + 2 more
January 5, 2023