Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

I’m a mere therapist, but if I could share one piece of life advice with anyone, it would be this: Take an improv class. And, improv teachers and therapists cultivate an environment of support, empathy, validation, and a space to improve skills. There is a shared idea that it’s ok to be vulnerable and experience an array of emotions.

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Clinical Philosophy

MAY 1, 2021

What distinguishes the master therapist? I've long suspected that an important aspect of such a therapist is her moral seriousness. It's from a recent blogpost by Jon Frederikson ; Frederikson is a particularly lucid and thoughtful exponent of ISTDP (Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy). And now the example.

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Therapist Development Center

MAY 17, 2023

The way psychotherapy concludes with a client can be a vital aspect of healing.

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Therapist Development Center

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The past couple months’s blogs highlight two therapy theories that can show up on the test: Gestalt and Interpersonal Psychotherapy. The post ASWB Exam Prep: Structural Family Therapy appeared first on Therapist Development Center Blog. … Continued.

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Community Care

JANUARY 10, 2023

It said the move would improve access to counselling for adult adoptees and birth relatives, and to therapeutic parenting services for adoptive parents, as current requirements acted as a disincentive for therapists to provide these services. Registration to be removed for contracted counsellors.

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Gateway Foundation

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Some of the treatments available to individuals with PTSD include: Psychotherapy: During therapy, you’ll talk with a mental health professional to help address your traumatic experiences and learn how to move on and improve your symptoms. However, many treatments can help improve a person’s well-being and alleviate symptoms.

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Clinical Philosophy

APRIL 13, 2022

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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Community Care

AUGUST 16, 2023

Furthermore, two critical factors were relevant to the success of treatment: the individual’s willingness to engage with the therapy and the relationship between the individual and the therapist (Johnson and Boyle 2018, Wampold 2001).

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Clinical Philosophy

JANUARY 22, 2020

Another concerned the work one needs to do on oneself as a therapist to tolerate the patient's tragic loneliness rather than deflect from it and flee into understanding or action. Yet my point is that the work of psychotherapy, as we've always practiced it, is itself precisely what's required for the true amelioration of loneliness.

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University of Connecticut

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Social Stigma Reduce social stigma through use of virtual mental health therapists (BetterHelp, Talkspace, Talkiatry) or chatbots Preferences for avoiding human to human interaction Clinical Settings Use of ChatGPT to draft chart documentation with review by licensed provider ChatGPT as tool to create templates and allow for clinical personalization (..)

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Beautiful Voyager

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

You can look into the following: Cognitive Behavior Therapy Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is a type of psychotherapy or talk therapy that uses strategies to change a patient’s unhelpful thinking patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a psychotherapy that is based on CBT.

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

My journal was my first therapist, where I recorded frustration, anxiety and depression. Like Thompson, they filled the day with activities that provided structure and predictability, the two things I needed as much as medication and psychotherapy. I’ve been at Thompson for over six years as a therapist,” Kathy started.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

She added: “This cliff edge in support every Treasury spending round can also impact the trust a child has worked hard to develop with their therapist. It can fund a range of services , including therapeutic parenting training, arts therapies, psychotherapy and extensive life story work.

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Clinical Philosophy

JANUARY 13, 2021

A review of a talk by Iain McGilchrist to the Oxford Psychotherapy Society on 9th Dec 2020 in which he set forth a highly compressed version (“this will be like drinking from a fire hose I imagine”) of key themes from his 2009 work The Master and His Emissary on the divided brain and the making of the western world.

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Clinical Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

A talk for Confer: Confronting Mortal Threat / Oxford Psychotherapy Society 5.9.2020 / 14.10.2020 ‘Wisdom is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her; fortunate are they who embrace her’ (Proverbs 3:18) Abstract To be ‘philosophical’ or ‘stoical’ is in part to remain calm and able to think in the face of adversity.

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Clinical Philosophy

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

In this post I'd like to fill out Capps' claim by offering something of an explanation - one I've drawn from Habib Davanloo's Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) as applied to FND by Allan Abbass. But first let's consider a handful of these healing takes.

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Clinical Philosophy

JANUARY 31, 2021

In a paper on whether psychotherapy is a form of prostitution, philosopher Rupert Read suggests that therapy is to genuine loving friendship (‘agape’) as prostitution is to erotic love (‘eros’). The therapist is selling herself, or some simulacrum of herself; the client is being cheated if this fact is played down or veiled.

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