Three Main Reasons Clinicians Fail Their Clients Pt. 2
November 3, 2017
By Bernard Schwartz, PhD, author of How to Fail as a Therapist This is the part 2 of "Three Main Reasons Clinicians Fail Their Clients." Read Part 1 here. 3…. READ MORE
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Three Main Reasons Clinicians Fail Their Clients Pt. 1
October 27, 2017
By Bernard Schwartz, PhD, author of How to Fail as a Therapist Depending on which study you read, between 20 and 57% of therapy clients do not return after their… READ MORE
The Healing Power of Mindfulness
September 13, 2017
By Rob Brandsma, author of The Mindfulness Teaching Guide “The conscious mind is a self-healing mind,” says psychiatrist and philosopher Roger Walsh. He is right. Just look at fear for example. The… READ MORE
The Mindful Bus: A Board Game for Practicing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
June 8, 2017
Ellis Edmunds, PsyD, developed an acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) board game called the Mindful Bus. (The “passengers on the bus” is a well-used ACT metaphor, but we’ll get to… READ MORE
Shame — Dissolving This Driving Force Behind Addiction Through Mindfulness
May 4, 2017
by Scott Kiloby, author of Natural Rest for Addiction One glance at Auguste Rodin’s famous statue Eve After the Fall tells the whole story of how we outwardly manifest our internal feelings of… READ MORE
Process-Based Therapy: The Future of Psychology Is Here
March 17, 2017
by Rochelle I. Frank, PhD, and Joan Davidson, PhD Transdiagnostic approaches that target underlying psychological processes (rather than symptom constellations) increasingly are becoming the new gold standard of evidence-based treatment…. READ MORE
Dragon or Mosquito? A simple strategy to enhance client commitment
February 27, 2017
Clients often come to therapy with significant difficulties that take significant dedication and effort to overcome. Yet they are often accustomed to standard medical care, in which the clinician does… READ MORE
How is RO-DBT different from DBT?
February 14, 2017
Developed by Marsha Linehan, PhD, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a cognitive behavioral treatment that was originally developed to treat chronically suicidal individuals diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD). Radically… READ MORE
Fostering Awareness, Compassion, and Courage When Working with Gender and Sexual Minorities
October 19, 2016
Research shows that gender and sexual minorities experience more mental health problems than their heterosexual cis-gender (when assigned sex at birth matches gender identity) counterparts. Here are some best practices… READ MORE
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