History of Abuse in Academia and Universities Academia has a long-standing history of allowing dangerous, and potentially unlawful, behavior to continue without significant intervention. Jobs may be ensured due to the weight a faculty’s name carries, their ability to bring in funding, or after obtaining tenure. Additionally, faculty members protect each other from missteps. For […]
Dennis Martin Kivlighan, Jr., Ph.D. – Winner of the Society’s Distinguished Psychologist Award Dennis M. Kivlighan, Jr. PhD, is Professor in the Department of Counseling, Higher Education and Special Education and Interim Chair in the Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology at the University of Maryland-College Park. He received his Ph.D in Counseling Psychology […]
Candidates for President-elect Tony Rousmaniere, Psy.D. I am humbled by the nomination to serve the Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy (Division 29) in the role of president. The Society has long been my professional home at APA, and I would be honored to serve in this role. Over the past decade, our Division has […]
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) provides an intriguing view of the multitude of forces influencing our nation’s health care system, from the broad interprofessional perspective of the behavioral sciences, law, engineering, nursing, medicine, etc. Some of the timeliest topics recently addressed include: Health Disparities, Global Warming, Advances in Technology (including Telehealth), Disinformation regarding COVID-19, […]
Measurement-based care (MBC) is a data-driven approach to delivering health care services. MBC encompasses an array of clinical tools, such as routine outcome monitoring (ROM), feedback informed treatment (FIT), and measurement feedback systems (MFS). Collectively, these practices center around the routine administration of treatment outcomes measurement and processing the scores with clients about treatment progress. […]
You don’t need us to tell you this, but graduate school is a very challenging, demanding, and stressful time. While it hopefully is one of the most exciting, stimulating, and invigorating times of your life, you also must contend with stressors associated with being a graduate student as well as those in your personal life, […]
“Evidence-Based” Training? Research is important in the scientific field of psychotherapy, where we like to think of ourselves as “scientist-practitioners” who provide “evidence-based practice” (Overholser, 2012). However, when it concerns our professional training, this research emphasis appears to be conveniently forgotten. Therapists tend to spend many hours of their career in professional training, not only […]
Who Am I María Celeste Airaldi is Director of the Sensorium Institute, in Paraguay, a center specialized in psychology, and is a professor at the Catholic University “Nuestra Señora de la Asunción”, also in Paraguay; she is also a Level 2 Faculty Trainer at the Albert Ellis Institute in New York. She was trained as […]
We, the Student Development Committee, would like to host a monthly student support group to provide an inclusive space for students from different programs to connect with and support each other. This group will be open to all students, regardless of their educational levels (i.e., graduate and undergraduate students) or membership status of the Division and the APA. The […]
Greetings Division 29 and SAP Membership! The new year is well under way and spring will soon be upon us. As March approaches, we want to orient you to updates within the Division that have accompanied the changes to the national and global climates. The Psychotherapy Bulletin team anticipates that many creative ideas will accompany […]