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Practical Tips for Using Social Media to Promote Your Professional Practice
Creating professional social media accounts across multiple platforms can increase both business traction and community outreach and contact. By using your professional knowledge to inform the public about your mental health expertise and areas of specialty, you can help strengthen the relationship between mental health care and the communities it serves; destigmatizing various facets of […]
Amanda Conway, MS
May 6, 2026
The Effects of Social Media on Self-Esteem
This paper will discuss the impact of social media on an individual’s self-esteem in different stages of development through a psychosocial lens. Psychosocial theory of human development focuses on the inner world of an individual who is trying to find a sense of self in society. “The process of growth results from the interaction of […]
Hannah Belisle, BA + 1 more
June 3, 2025
A Dissertation Study on Prolonged Grief Disorder and Mourning via Social Media
I grew up in a time when social media was gaining popularity and spreading into several different platforms. As a doctoral student in a PsyD program at California Northstate University, I have gained an appreciation for research seeking to understand the intersection of social media and mental health. My dissertation chair, Dr. Craig Wetterer, and […]
Sarah Bondy, MA + 1 more
December 18, 2024
Internal Family Systems: Exploring Its Problematic Popularity
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a theory of mind organization developed by Richard Schwartz in the 1990s, which posits that the mind is an internal system of parts that exist separately and in conversation with one another. While this approach, on the surface, sounds like many theories of psychotherapy (e.g., any theory that discusses how […]
Lisa M. Brownstone, PhD + 2 more
June 26, 2024
Call for SAP Social Media Coordinator Nominations 2025
The Publications Board of the Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy (SAP) is seeking nominations (including self-nominations) for the position of Social Media Coordinator. Candidates should be available to assume the title of incoming Social Media Coordinator as of January 2025 for a one-year term. We are seeking a motivated and savvy individual to join […]
Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy
June 9, 2024
The Practice of Telepsychology
The use of telepsychology by psychotherapists has increased in recent decades (Glueckauf et al., 2018). It provides greater access to psychotherapy, such as for those who live in areas where needed treatment services are not available and for those who are homebound or who lack access to adequate transportation. It also can be more cost-effective […]
Jeffrey E. Barnett, Psy.D., ABPP + 1 more
September 1, 2022
Call for SAP Social Media Coordinator Nominations 2023
The Publications Board of the Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy (SAP) is seeking nominations (including self-nominations) for the position of Social Media Coordinator. Candidates should be available to assume the title of incoming Social Media Coordinator as of January 2023 for a one-year term. We are seeking a motivated and savvy individual to join […]
Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy
February 3, 2022
Instagram and Disordered Eating
Social media has become a driving factor in today’s society. It can create and maintain business and social relationships. Of the many social media platforms, Instagram has become a major resource for those using it to follow and share photos for friends and family. It has even become a platform for people to launch their […]
Zoe Ross-Nash, PsyD + 1 more
July 4, 2021
The Double-Edged Sword of Social Media During Quarantine
As therapists and as people, we are acutely aware of the many sources of distress impacting psychological wellbeing, stressors which have been exacerbated as the global pandemic shut down the world and forced us to adopt social distancing measures. However, since March, I have observed and cultivated insight into a unique source of distress that […]
Kim Lawson, M.A., LMFT + 1 more
December 1, 2020
Actionable Steps for Therapists (And All Human Beings) In Response to the Racial Pandemic
We are angry. We are indignant. We are hurt. We are distraught. We are united in pain, frustration, and a want for change. Centuries of cumulative trauma brought on by racial discrimination have spilled over into what we see today in streets across our country. Social media, conversations, articles and op-eds are plentiful. All make […]
Samantha Janvier, M.S. + 1 more
June 2, 2020
To swipe or not to swipe? Contemplating Mental Health Professionals’ Use of Online Dating Services
As of May 2018, approximately 50 million Americans are using online and mobile app dating services (hereafter referred to as “online dating”; Seetharaman & Wells, 2018). With one out of five relationships now starting online (Cacioppo et al., 2013; Hamilton, 2016), mental health professionals and graduate students are likely using these services. Indeed, a recent […]
Katherine O'Neil, M.A.
March 8, 2020
Call for SAP Social Media Consultant Nominations 2020
The Publications Board of the Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy (SAP) is seeking nominations (including self-nominations) for the position of Social Media Consultant. Candidates should be available to assume the title of incoming Social Media Consultant as of August 2020 for a one-year term. We are seeking a motivated and savvy individual to join […]
Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy
March 1, 2020