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Ethical Considerations When a Client Crosses Sexual Boundaries
I’ll never forget the day that a friend of mine quoted a professor from my university: “The only way you can screw up as a psychologist is by having sex with your clients. As long as you don’t do that, you’re set!” Forgive the crass language, but the words and tone used at the time […]
Ashley Herbst, M.S.
April 30, 2015
Reflections on Mental Health Professionals Working with Divorcing Parents Outside the Courtroom
Divorce is major event in the life cycle of the nuclear family. It has the potential to be traumatic and, in some circles, is even referred to as, “The death of the family.” Families torn apart, and parents (with their attorneys) as adversaries, are common to this process that is often described as a “war”. This tends to […]
Jeffrey Zimmerman, Ph.D., ABPP
April 12, 2015
Informed Consent in Clinical Practice
It may be easy to view informed consent as one of those obligations all psychotherapists must meet in order to stay out of trouble. After all, no one wants an ethics complaint, licensure board complaint, or malpractice suit. And, if we ever do become the subject of any of these we will definitely want to […]
Jeffrey E. Barnett, Psy.D., ABPP
March 29, 2015
What Clinicians Want from Psychotherapy Research
The Practice-Research Divide in Psychotherapy The tension between science and practice in psychotherapy has been described as a war or a “bad marriage” (Greene, 2014). Some writers on the research side of the divide characterize clinicians as lacking in knowledge and skill in empirically supported interventions (Karlin & Cross, 2014), while others suggest that clinicians […]
Giorgio A. Tasca, Ph.D.
March 22, 2015
Advancing Psychotherapy Beyond the English-Speaking World
Bienvenue • 欢迎 • Bem-vindo • ترحيب • Welkom The Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy has taken a meaningful step towards more effectively sharing our thought-provoking articles, clinical expertise and wisdom, and dedication to advancing psychotherapy to audiences across the globe. All of our website content is now available in 90 languages. From traditional and […]
Amy E. Ellis, Ph.D.
March 12, 2015
Transporting Evidence-Based Practices to Public Health Settings
We live in an age when a multitude of effective therapies have been identified, and the call is building for evidence-based practices as “the integration of the best available research with clinical expertise in the context of patient characteristics, culture, and preferences” (American Psychological Association, 2006, p. 273). This focus has accompanied a proliferation of […]
Scott H. Waltman, Psy.D., ABPP + 2 more
March 8, 2015
What Do We Know about Psychotherapy?
We have just finished writing the 2nd edition of a book with the title The Great Psychotherapy Debate. Although there are many aspects of psychotherapy about which there is no debate, there remain some important debates about some issues. Interestingly, what we debate probably is not all that important, at one level (although it is […]
Bruce E. Wampold, Ph.D., ABPP + 1 more
March 1, 2015
Context-Responsive Psychotherapy Integration
All Eyes on the Prize (Looking through Different Glasses) Psychotherapists and psychotherapy researchers all want the same thing: less mental illness and greater psychological well-being, for the most people, using the least resources. Historically, though, there has been some disagreement about how best to achieve effective and efficient psychotherapy outcomes. The disagreement manifests both in […]
Michael J. Constantino, Ph.D. + 1 more
February 22, 2015
Stuck in the Middle
As the oldest child in my family, I do not have a lot of experience with what it is like to be in the middle. However, as I transition from an early-career to mid-career psychologist, I find that I am quickly learning. Whether the middle child or a mid-career psychologist, you are no longer the […]
Rayna D. Markin, Ph.D.
February 19, 2015
Preparation for Psychotherapy Through Facilitating Autonomous Motivation
Our study published in Psychotherapy in December 2014 focused on psychotherapy motivation among patients with substance use disorders (SUD) based on Self Determination Theory (SDT; Ryan & Deci, 2000). The study showed that SUD patients’ amotivation predicted increased dropout rate in the step from assessment to starting therapy (Philips & Wennberg, 2014). These results add […]
Björn Philips + 1 more
February 15, 2015
It’s (Still) All About the Relationship
It has long been assumed that asking a supervisee to explore her conscious and unconscious feelings toward a client will help her work with that client, understand herself better, and ultimately facilitate her professional development (e.g., Ekstein & Wallerstein, 1972; Kagan, 1984). Underlying this assumption is an appreciation for the therapist as the instrument of […]
Myrna L. Friedlander, Ph.D. + 1 more
February 12, 2015
Lessons From a Concussion
Imagine: You’ve been in an accident. Now, your thinking is clouded and unclear, you are terrified that you have lost your ability to reason and think clearly and it might never return, and you have a caseload of clients. What would you do? If you didn’t (or couldn’t) turn to anyone, is there someone in […]
Sarah Lukens
February 8, 2015