Psychotherapy Bulletin
Browse articles, research, and updates from the Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy.
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Brief Psychotherapy of Two Cases with Very Different Outcomes: Success and Failure
Abstract This article demonstrates the digital assessment of two clients over the course of five psychotherapy sessions with very different outcomes. One was very successful and the other minimally successful or possibly a “failure.” Both clients experienced ART (Accelerated Resolution Therapy) in session four before terminating. They also did the exercises in chapters one, two, […]

Philip H. Friedman, Ph.D. + 1 more
September 3, 2023

Gab with the Greats
We are thrilled to announce an upcoming event that promises to be both enlightening and inspiring: Gab with the Greats virtual gathering. This event is taking place on Monday, September 18th, 2023 from 10:00 – 11:30 (ET) via Zoom! Organized by the Early Career Psychology Domain within the Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy (Division 29 – APA), this event includes three distinguished […]

Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy
August 20, 2023

Value as a construct for comparing psychotherapy with digital therapeutics
Introduction Estimating the value of medical and behavioral services has received an increasing amount of attention in recent decades (Happell, 2008; Rocco, 2019; Porter & Teisberg, 2004; Porter & Teisberg, 2006; Porter, 2010, Teisberg et al., 2020). Porter and Teisberg (2006) compared methods for evaluating value in their book Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition […]
S. (Jeb) Brown, Ph.D. + 2 more
July 9, 2023

Contingency Management for Stimulant Addiction: The Most Effective, Evidence-Based Treatment You’ve Never Used
America’s drug overdose crisis is one of the greatest public health concerns of our time with significant loss of life and economic burden. Over 109,000 Americans died of a drug overdose in 2022 (Ahmad, Rossen, & Sutton, 2023)—roughly one-third of which were attributed to stimulants—and the estimated annual stimulant-related cost to U.S. hospitals alone (emergency […]

Steven L. Proctor, Ph.D. + 1 more
July 9, 2023

Talking Therapy: The Podcast
Marvin Goldfried, PhD, Stony Brook University Allen Frances, MD, Duke University Producer: Alan Kian, MA, York University Marvin Goldfried is a distinguished professor of psychology at Stony Brook University, where he helped to develop the graduate program in clinical psychology—he is the cofounder of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration. Allen Frances is […]
Marvin R. Goldfried, Ph.D., ABPP
June 3, 2023

Social Cognitive Affect: Self-Discrepancy in Suicide
Suicide is a public health crisis (Cornette et al., 2009). An estimated 703,000 people a year in the world end their life (World Health Organization, 2022). Additionally, for every completed suicide, there are 20 people attempting suicide, and many more experiencing suicidal thoughts or ideation. Suicide is the third leading cause of death in 15 […]

Stevie Schapiro
May 28, 2023

Steps for Hosting an E&T Event for Division 29
For information on how Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy Board and Committee Chairs can submit a proposal for a CE (or non-CE) event, please download this informational sheet: Sponsoring an Event Instructions (updated 1.11.24).

Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy
May 23, 2023

APA 2023 Convention Program
Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy (Division 29) is happy to announce our 2023 APA Convention program on August 3 to August 5. Registration opens April 25th. All sessions offering CE credits have been reviewed and approved by the American Psychological Association Office for Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP) and the Continuing Education Committee (CEC) […]

Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy
April 22, 2023

Explanation of Social Anxiety Disorder: Neurobiological, Environmental, Developmental, and Treatment Factors
Based on the World Health Organization (2017), depression is ranked as the greatest source of disability worldwide (with 7.5% of individuals in 2015 having depression) and anxiety disorder globally ranked as the sixth causing significant impairment (among 3.4% of individuals in 2015). The National Comorbidity Survey (Kessler et al., 2005) found that social anxiety is […]

Ray Lynn Kaidbay, MSc, DTLLP + 1 more
April 22, 2023

Psychotherapy and Climate Change
We were just teenagers when Earth Day first came about on April 22, 1970. We remember the special celebrations and visions of hope. Fast forwarding to over 50 years later in April 2023, the frightening climate-related nightmares envisioned in the 1970’s, have become our current reality. In most countries, factories are no longer allowed to […]

Barbara J. Thompson, Ph.D. + 2 more
April 18, 2023

Climate Change and Psychotherapy
This video is an interview with a Certified Eco-therapist, Lezlie Scaliatine. She explores her personal experience during the wildfires of 2017 in California. Dr. Scaliatine also provides a useful starting point for therapists wanting to incorporate issues related to climate change in their work.

Lezlie Scaliatine, PsyD
April 18, 2023

Thoughts About Relating to Clients in an Atheoretical Way
This author’s article titled Two Aspects Are Preventing Psychotherapy from Being More Effective was posted on the SAP website in 2022. The first aspect proposed that psychotherapy does not have an effective enough of an understanding of its subject matter. This author further proposed that (a) the typical client’s presenting problem has (until shown otherwise) […]
Jeffrey Von Glahn, Ph.D.
April 16, 2023
