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How to Choose a Therapist: Tips and Fits

Stop Abuse Campaign

Although many people may still feel that there is a stigma attached to seeking mental health services, we all need help from time to time. Therapy” is often used interchangeably with the terms “counseling” and “psychotherapy.” It is essentially a helping relationship between a licensed mental health professional and a client.

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Q&A: Technology Use in Mental Health Practice and Research

Society of Clinical Psychology

Samuel Lustgarten on a recent article in Clinical Psychology: Science & Practice : “ Technology use in mental health practice and research: Legal and ethical risks ” (Lustgarten & Elhai, 2018). Has insurance billing fully caught up with these technological options in providing psychotherapy?

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The Inaugural SCP Conference

Society of Clinical Psychology

At that time, I was drawn to the astute work of Dr. Dianne Chambless and Dr. Steve Hollon in their attempts at defining empirically support treatments in our field at a time when much was changing in psychotherapy research (through Section 3, The Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology; SSCP).

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Clinical Philosophy

I don't know about you, but the reason I often make notes after psychotherapy sessions is because I need aides-memoires. I've about 18 patients - in my private psychotherapy practice - at any one time; most of them attend just once a week. to make a joke ten minutes into the session?). So, good: there is that!

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News Items – January 20, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Yurilka Hernandez is a member: Yurilka Hernandez, LCSW, a licensed clinical social worker with Psychotherapy Today. Yurilka is a licensed clinical social worker currently serving patients at her private practice, Psychotherapy Today. Mental health professionals are seeing the same struggles.

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What we know now about bridging the gap between research and practice

Society of Clinical Psychology

About two decades ago, psychologists who develop and study psychotherapy interventions began to recognize that publications on the efficacy of new psychotherapies were not sufficient to change practice. and many state and local mental health systems that require consumer access to EBPTs. 2010 for a summary).

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News Items – September 30, 2021

Social Workers Speak

Psychotherapy after the pandemic will likely be a hybrid — part office, part telemedicine. Help and hope for the bi+ community may be harder to find, but there is a community out there that loves you and wants you to thrive, points out Steven Haden, CEO of LGBTQ+ mental health resource Envision:You. The Philadelphia Inquirer.