April 9, 2015
As an educator, you probably feel, at least sometimes, totally depleted and stressed. The demands of your job are herculean, and in meeting them you are accountable to administrators, the… READ MORE
April 7, 2015
There is a growing disparity in academic achievement between boys and girls—with boys, specifically boys of color, underachieving. In response to this widening gap, Michael Reichert and Richard Hawley (2013)… READ MORE
April 2, 2015
It has been proven that the strongest indicator of success in therapy is the quality of relationship between the client and the therapist. So when it comes to teens, it… READ MORE
March 25, 2015
By Lucie Hemmen, PhD Once teens are familiar with the concept of the inner critic, you can help them monitor and redirect their negative thoughts and self-talk. Here are some… READ MORE
March 19, 2015
It’s not exactly news that mindfulness-based therapies are effective. A recent meta-analysis including 209 published empirical outcome studies indicated that mindfulness-based treatments in general were effective in treating a variety… READ MORE
March 17, 2015
If you use defusion in your therapy sessions, or any other technique aimed at helping clients create distance between themselves and the stories they tell themselves, you may recognize this… READ MORE
March 10, 2015
Across the board of contemporary psychotherapy modalities, some iteration of defusion-like techniques have been incorporated successfully to yield behavioral change. But when it comes to cognitive behavioral therapy, defusion and… READ MORE
March 6, 2015
If you use any technique that involves helping clients untangle themselves from the stories they tell about their lives and struggles and realize that their thoughts are not absolute truths,… READ MORE
March 2, 2015
What does the word defusion mean? According to John Blackledge, PhD, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) researcher and author of Cognitive Defusion in Practice: A Clinician’s Guide to Assessing, Observing… READ MORE
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