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Examination for the Professional Practice of Psychology Statement
The Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy (American Psychological Association Division 29) recognizes mental health disparities as directly attributable to lack of access to mental health care, an insufficiently diverse health care workforce, and need for linguistically and culturally competent care (SAMHSA, 2018). As an organization whose mission is to make the benefits of psychotherapy available to all, […]
Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy
December 1, 2020
2020 Bulletin Editor’s Column 55(4)
“We are all more simply human than otherwise.” – Harry Stack Sullivan, 1947 This quote, which drove some of the conceptual work of the late Dr. Jeremy Safran, underlies the notion that therapists are part of what he refers to as the “interpersonal field” and they must be keen observers not only of their clients’ […]
Joanna M. Drinane, Ph.D.
December 1, 2020
The Importance of Trauma-Informed Care in Eating Disorder Treatment
Due to the high comorbidity between disordered eating after a traumatic experience, understanding the association between the two is pertinent to the conceptualization of a person experiencing such stressors. There is an increasing amount of literature suggesting that many of those with eating disorders (ED) also have a history of psychological trauma (Mitchell et al., […]
Zoe Ross-Nash, PsyD + 1 more
October 11, 2020
Harnessing Insights from Language Use Research in Counseling and Psychotherapy
The science of language is the study of how humans communicate and understand meaning. It does this by examining the ways in which words influence and reflect internal and external processes and behavior, as well as social interaction and connectivity (Krieger & Gallois, 2017; Mehl & Pennebaker, 2003). The average person speaks 150-160 English words […]
Jodie Maccarrone M.S.
September 13, 2020
2020 Student Paper Award Winners
Student Diversity Award Brien J. Goodwin is a sixth-year PhD student in the Clinical Psychology program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who is starting his pre-doctoral internship this fall at the Institute of Living. His Master’s thesis examined the association between early-treatment patient motivational language and proximal treatment outcomes. His dissertation examines in-session interpersonal […]
Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy
August 31, 2020
Drawn from “The Person of the Therapist”
“When the wrong man uses the right means, the right means work in the wrong way” (Stevens, 1970, p. 7). Looking beyond what now would be considered her sexist language, we might appreciate that Barry Stevens had a knack for stating wisdom in down-to-earth terms, terms so simple and clear that the truth shone through […]
Edward W.L. Smith, Ph.D.
August 28, 2020
Critical Incidents in Pre-Practicum Supervision from the Perspective of Counseling Trainees
Pre-practicum (PP) supervision is counseling trainees’ first introduction to the tremendously complex and comprehensive process of supervision. Supervision is vital for counseling trainees’ professional development as it is one of their first steps towards the development of competence as psychotherapists and lays the groundwork for subsequent training (Hatcher & Lassiter, 2007; Hill et al., 2007). […]
Jacob Daheim, M.A. + 2 more
August 27, 2020
Challenges and Considerations for Predoctoral Psychology Interns During a Pandemic
The University of Denver Graduate School of Professional Psychology Internship Consortium, an APA-accredited internship consortium, consists of seven sites in the Denver metropolitan area including a state psychiatric hospital, residential treatment home for children and adolescents, health maintenance organization, community mental health center, police psychology agency, and two university counseling centers. The global pandemic caused […]
Maya Badwan + 12 more
August 27, 2020
I’m Going Back to My Plough
Over the years, we have come to appreciate that the public policy/political process is a highly personal one in which those who successfully engage possess vision, long-term commitment, and perhaps most importantly, enthusiasm. There are always unexpected opportunities to be discovered – creative ways to accomplish one’s underlying objectives. Accordingly, I have been very pleased […]
Pat DeLeon, Ph.D.
August 27, 2020
How We Pay for Therapy, or, Imagine a World Without a Fee
These were the contradictory messages I received about one of the most anxiety-provoking tasks of the budding new therapist and entrepreneur–setting your fees. The first time we set our fee often reflects how we feel about the act of charging for psychotherapy, not how your clinic, your hospital, or your supervisor are paid. But how […]
Daniel Jose Gaztambide, Psy.D.
August 27, 2020
Bearing Witness to Clients’ Traumatic Experiences in Psychotherapy and Therapist Mental Health
Early 2020 has brought with it a number of unprecedented challenges. These challenges include navigating the coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic and combating police brutality and racism more broadly while in the midst of that pandemic. For some, experiencing or witnessing actual or threatened harm from COVID-19 may be traumatic (Horesh & Brown, 2020). Further, the deaths […]
Elizabeth Penix, M.S.
August 27, 2020
Identifying, Addressing, and Using Therapists’ Countertransference in the Time of Pandemics
During the past few months, the world has been experiencing unique challenges. We are all facing many environmental and social stressors (many of which are not new), which will impact us in various ways. We are not only experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic, but we are also experiencing the racism pandemic (Schullman, 2020). In the words […]
Beatriz Palma, Ph.D.
August 27, 2020