…tiation from any negative conditioning in the family. The ultimate goal of psychotherapy is to help people overcome their personal limitations and to maintain the healthy balance between feeling and rationality that reflects their basic humanness and supports the development of the true self. This blog outlines several key concepts contained in my new book Separation Theory – A Unique Insight into Self-destructive Thought and Behavior. (in press)…
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…erapy and their process of transformation. In his introduction, he wrote, “Psychotherapy represents a powerful personal interaction and a unique human relationship in which a trained person attempts to render assistance to another person by both suspending and extending him-or herself.” The goal of the therapist is not to judge or to categorize someone but to understand that person as an individual, so that he or she feels seen. In a recent interv…
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…t seriously. In fact, one of our proudest moments in the second edition of Psychotherapy – Relationships that Work is that for the first time, the National Registry of Evidence Based Practices and Programs now recognizes the therapy relationship as evidence based. Before that, it was always, you know, treatment methods, programs, etc. With this release of the book, they immediately put it on this federal government website and said, “This works. P…
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…Watch excerpts below from PsychAlive’s exclusive interview with Dr. Donna Rockwell. Mindfulness expert, Dr. Donna Rockwell discusses the benefits of mindfulness and meditation in both life and in clinical practice. She also leads a series of short mindfulness exercises. YouTube responded with an error: The playlist identified with the request’s <code>playlistId</code> parameter cannot be found. Read more from Dr. Donna Rockwell …
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…escribing what his goals would be for a person as an outcome of successful psychotherapy. Robert Firestone: First of all, it depends a lot on their own motivation and their particular goals for themselves. But in general, the kind of person I would like to see them be is one who had a strong sense of themselves; a person who could deal with feelings; a person who was non-defensive; a person who had a strong sense of values; a person whose values…
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…ty. He is a former president of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy. An expert in the field of violence, he has published several books including Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic, Preventing Violence: Prospects for Tomorrow, and Why Some Politicians Are More Dangerous Than Others. As a faculty member of the Harvard Medical School for many years, he headed the Institute of Law and Psychiatry and directed mental heal…
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…fferent people. According to the American Psychological Association (APA), psychotherapy can benefit depressed individuals by helping them uncover the life problems that contribute to their depression, identify the destructive thinking that makes them feel hopeless, explore the behaviors that exacerbate their depression and regain a sense of pleasure in their lives. 2) Depression is affecting younger people. In what’s been referred to in the field…
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…cs including feminism, patriarchy, relationships, pleasure, parenting, and psychotherapy. She dispels myths regarding feminism that have pervaded both professional discourse and popular media for the past three decades, describing how “patriarchy creates a rift in the psyche, dividing everyone apart from themselves.” She discusses relationships and parenting, including the dynamics of mother-son and mother-daughter relationships. Finally, Dr. Gill…
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…nk: Sign Up Here Define Cultural Competency in relationship to counseling, psychotherapy, and social work-Become familiar with relevant cultural competency demographic information-Obtain information that includes but is not limited to, the social and psychological aspects of culture on counseling-Identify cultural issues and barriers to counseling-Identify relevant issues and clinical implications in coping with aging-Become familiar with the clin…
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…HIPAA-related terms, such as Covered Entity, Privacy Rule, Security Rule, Psychotherapy Notes, Consent, Authorization, Risk Assessment, Risk Management, Breach Assessment and many other terms and rulings. The course will help psychotherapists to achieve compliance with HIPAA and point out how to deal with issues arising when states’ laws and HIPAA regulations overlap. A state-by-state preemption analysis is not provided. However, a summary preemp…
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