Professional Articles

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• Clinicians on the Couch: Q&A with Psychologist Charles H. Elliott
  In this regular feature, we talk with a different therapist each month about their work, advice to ...
• Clinicians on the Couch: 10 Questions with Psychologist Deborah Serani
  In this brand-new feature, we interview a different therapist each month about their work. Below, you'll learn ...
• Private Practice Made Simple
  There are plenty of books and websites out there offering advice to mental health professionals who want to know how to establish their own private practice. With this new release Randy J. Paterson, PhD offers ...
• Therapists Spill: The Best Advice I’ve Received On Conducting Therapy
  There are certain words of wisdom that stay with you the rest of your life -- especially ...
• A Counselor’s Clients Can Make the Best Teachers
  From a reasonably young age, I knew exactly what I wanted to be -- a professional helper. I ...
• Mental Health Professionals: US Statistics
  According to the United States Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are over 552,000 mental health professionals practicing in the ...
• Assessing Adult Attachment: A Dynamic-Maturational Approach to Discourse Analysis
  Attachment theory has come a long way since John Bowlby’s paper “Forty-four Juvenile Thieves” was published in 1944. In the paper Bowlby wrote about his work with disturbed youth in London. He theorized for the ...
• Crazy: Notes On and Off the Couch
  Have you ever wondered what’s going through your therapist’s head? Or, if you are a mental health professional yourself, have you ever wondered if you were alone in your thoughts about your job? Whichever side ...
• Getting Ready To Rejoin the Workforce
  After six months on the job hunt following a layoff, you got so discouraged you gave up. Now the savings ...
• Feedback-Informed Treatment: Empowering Clients to Use Their Voices
  How often does your therapist ask you how they’re doing? Or give you questionnaires to complete to see ...
• What I Wish I Knew in Grad School: Current and Former Students Share 16 Tips
  Graduate school is both an incredibly challenging and rewarding time in ...
• 8 Tips for a Successful Internship
  You’ve finally received word that you’ve scored an internship site — a process that’s taken tremendous amounts of work and ...
• 9 Ideas for Increasing Your Chances of Matching
  “The number of students seeking internships significantly outnumbers the availability of internship positions,” according to Sharon Berry, Ph.D, ...
• 8 Hints for Selecting an Internship Site
  With so many internship sites to choose from, it can be hard to narrow down your search. What criteria ...
• Making the Most of Your Clinical Practicum
  A practicum placement is a pivotal and exciting time in a student’s graduate school career. You’re finally putting all ...
• An Overview of Health Psychology
  According to the American Psychological Association, health psychologists “help patients manage chronic disease and avoid preventable diseases” by “incorporating psychological theory ...
• A Terrible Melancholy: Depression in the Legal Profession
  Buffalo attorney Daniel T. Lukasick, who runs the site LawyersWithDepression.com has just produced an original documentary film called "A Terrible Melancholy: Depression ...
• The Key to Finding a Work-Life Balance
  In today’s society, with increasing job demands and smartphones and other types of technology that keep us perpetually plugged ...
• The Books That Changed These 6 Psychologists’ Lives
  It's hard not to imagine that books have the power to change our perspectives and even our lives. ...
• Psychologists Spill: When I Knew I’d Become a Psychotherapist
  For some people, what they want to be when they grow up comes in ...
• The House on Crash Corner
  Mostly anecdotal, “The House on Crash Corner,” by Mindy Greenstein, Ph.D., has a message if you “listen between the lines.” It’s a message on life and death, of understanding, simplicity, synchrony and relating. Divided into four ...
• Not by Chance Alone: My Life as a Social Psychologist
  How does a shy, uninteresting kid from the slums of Boston become one of the world’s greatest social psychologists? As the title of Elliot Aronson’s autobiography, Not By Chance Alone: My Life as a Social ...
• The Skinny on Time Management: How To Maximize Your 24-Hour Gift
  Time management is no doubt a universal topic. Especially in today’s productivity-focused society, most — if not all — people want to know the secret to managing their time more effectively. The Skinny on Time ...
• Advice for Therapists Going into Private Practice
  A very nice thing happened to me while in line at the bank the other day. A young therapist standing behind me ...
• National Association for Dually Diagnosed Celebrates 25 Years
  People with both intellectual disability and mental illness are a small population -- less than one percent of people worldwide. But it’s a small population with very big needs. In 1983, Robert Fletcher, DSW, ACSW ...