Using a structured, written, organizational map can help clients disentangle their many problems, so they may begin effectively addressing them in therapy.
Ethics or Protocol: Children Must Take Priority
What do you do when clinical protocols compromise client care? With the well-being of children at stake, a clinician weighs compelling and conflicting obligations.
Challenging a Beloved Therapist: A Catalyst to Growth
Poignant and instructive for both clients and clinicians, Vivian Conan shares her 29-year therapeutic journey from fragmentation and fear to wholeness and connection.
Politics on the Couch
What do you do when clients talk politics? A clinician shares her internal struggles as she wrestles with clients who want to talk about war in the Middle East.
Donald Meichenbaum on Coping with Loss and Traumatic Bereavement
Join renowned clinician and researcher Donald Meichenbaum in a riveting and very personal conversation with our editor, Lawrence Rubin, on grief, trauma, bereavement, and resilience.
Mapping the Heart Of OCD: Going Beyond the Conditions We Know
A creative therapist helps a client struggling with OCD by focusing on her heart rather than her mind.
A Foster Child’s Painful Visit with his Mother
Share a rare and poignant glimpse into a foster child’s perception of his visit to see his biological mother.
Supporting Recently Traumatized Youth in a Crisis of Dissociation and Self-Harm
A skilled therapist guides us through a riveting session with a young, brutally traumatized client as she struggles to regain a foothold into her previous life.
Psychotherapy with Dissociative Identity Disorder
A compassionate clinician helps a traumatized and troubled client reintegrate the many cut off parts of herself.
Suicidal Debates with Clients in Psychotherapy
A clinician learns five invaluable truths about depression from his clients on the road to helping them avoid the dark alley of suicide.