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“Let’s Talk on the Fourth Floor”
Our idea, which three of us came up with nearly simultaneously, was born out of good intentions. We noticed that our most vulnerable students were often reluctant to go to our university’s counseling center. Our idea was to bring psychotherapy services to the place where they felt most comfortable, the floor of the student union […]
Paul Kwon, Ph.D.
September 2, 2019
Retirement Myths, Continued
In my last article I listed four retirement myths: It is easy to retire from an active professional life to a less active lifestyle; Retired people do not want to work; Retired people do not want to be paid; and Retired people have unlimited free time (Barrett, 2018). In that article I admitted to having […]
Thomas Barrett, Ph.D.
September 2, 2019
Asking for Help in Building My Private Practice
Let’s Start by Keeping It a Hundred I know it. You know it. Everybody who is a therapist knows it—we barely if at all get any training in how to build, run, and grow a private practice. For most of us we definitely did not have any courses in graduate school. Maybe when we were […]
Daniel Jose Gaztambide, Psy.D.
September 2, 2019
An MTurk Primer for Psychotherapy Researchers
In recent years, psychology researchers have begun to use online methods for participant recruitment and data collection. One of the most popular online methods is Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk), an online crowdsourcing website. To get a glance of its popularity, we recently did a Google Scholar search using the keyword “Mechanical Turk” (see Figure 1 […]
Kelley A. Tompkins, M.S. + 1 more
September 2, 2019
2019 Bulletin Editors’ Column 54(2)
Welcome to another issue of Psychotherapy Bulletin! Inside, you will find articles from a range of perspectives, including those of students, early- and mid-career professionals, and a follow-up article regarding retirement myths from Dr. Tom Barrett. We are pleased to offer three articles on this year’s Special Focus, “Self-care Across the Lifespan” (and please note […]
Lynett Henderson Metzger + 1 more
September 2, 2019
2019 President’s Column 54(2)
Hello Everyone! As you read this, over half of my presidential year will have passed and I would again like to thank you for allowing me the opportunity to serve the Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy (SfAP) in this role. I am very much looking forward to the APA convention and all of our […]
Nancy L. Murdock, Ph.D.
September 2, 2019
Mastering the Inner Skills of Psychotherapy
Competency in psychotherapy appears to generally follow a fairly prototypical growth curve (Callahan & Watkins, 2018). Via life experience or other learning, some incremental gains in basic competencies (e.g., caring for others) begin even before formal training (Hatcher and Lassiter, 2007). Empirical evidence suggests that formal training encapsulates a period of accelerated growth in a […]
Jennifer L. Callahan, Ph.D., ABPP
September 1, 2019
A Doctoral Student’s Perspective on Becoming an Evidence-Based Practitioner
The evidence-based practice in psychology (EBPP) movement can be considered a response to the medicalization of psychology, where pharmaceuticals are at risk of becoming the primary treatment option. The “year of the brain” illuminated connections between neurobiological markers and psychological phenomena, and as Paris (2015) argues, the field of psychiatry welcomed neuropsychology as a means […]
Molly E. Kelly, M.A.
August 18, 2019
Stranger Things and Social Skills
If you have seen Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” watched the long-standing TV sitcom “The Big Bang Theory,” or were friends with gamers in the last 45 years, you’ve likely had at least a passing exposure to Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), one of the most popular table-top role-playing games (TTRPG). Though D&D unduly provoked fear among those […]
Elizabeth D. Kilmer, M.S. + 1 more
August 4, 2019
Debunking Retirement Myths
In my last article I listed four retirement myths: It is easy to retire from an active professional life to a less active lifestyle; Retired people do not want to work; Retired people do not want to be paid; Retired people have unlimited free time In that article I admitted to having retired three times. […]
Thomas Barrett, Ph.D.
July 21, 2019
6 Recommendations to Reduce Weight Stigma and Discrimination in Eating Disorder Treatment
Weight stigma, or unfavorable attitudes and beliefs about people of a higher body-weight, is ubiquitous in society, as well as mental health settings (Puhl & Heuer, 2009). Stigma associated with high body-weight shares many similarities with stigma related to disordered eating behaviors, such as the perception that both are indicative of a flawed disposition or […]
Laurie A. S. Veillette, M.Sc. + 1 more
July 7, 2019
Responsivity to Patients’ Early Treatment Beliefs as a Form of Evidence-Based Decision Making
Although using an empirically supported treatment package to treat specific mental health problems may represent a good starting point, there is growing recognition that evidence-based practice (EBP) involves more than the uniform application of such standardized interventions. One of the main research findings driving this perspective is that global therapist adherence to a specific treatment […]
Alice E. Coyne, PhD + 2 more
June 23, 2019