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Clinician's digest
Mar 01, 2009; ... Clinician's digest By Garry Cooper Cell-Phone Therapy The cell phone, now part of everyday life, is still mostly underutilized for therapy, a traditionally face-to-face profession, though growing evidence shows it can be an effective adjunct tool. An article on the December 31 ...
Case, Male-Friendly Couples Counseling
Mar 01, 2009; ... Case Studies By Steven Stosny Male-Friendly Couples Counseling Finding love beyond words You've heard the jokes. Every couples therapist has skid marks at the front door from husbands being dragged into the office. Or this one: A man is convicted of tax evasion, claiming that he ...
Secrets of an Effective Website
Mar 01, 2009; ...Secrets of an Effective Website by Joe Bavonese The days when therapists needed to decide whether they wanted to have a website are passed. Today it's become an essential way of regularly attracting referrals to your practice. So the question is no longer whether to have a ...
In Consultation, Working with Alcoholics
Mar 01, 2009; ... In Consultation By Mark Schenker Working with Alcoholics AA as a crucial adjunct to therapy Q:I recently began seeing a new patient with an acknowledged drinking problem. He's asked about going to Alcoholics Anonymous, but I'm concerned that his attendance there may distract him ...
To Buy or not to Buy
Mar 01, 2009; ... To Buy or not to Buy You Can Never Get Enough of What You Don't Really Need by April Lane Benson It's Monday before Christmas, and the lure of spectacular discounts has turned the usual elegance of the first floor of Saks Fifth Avenue into something resembling Filene's ...
From the Editor
Mar 01, 2009; ... From The Editor With the economy going off a cliff, some of us have vowed to stop reading the newspaper or surfing the news on the Internet. After all, it can't be good for our mental health to be continually hammered by word of fresh disasters. At the same time, we can't cover our ears ...
Bookmarks, Islands in the Sea
Mar 01, 2009; ... Bookmarks By Richard Handler Islands in the Sea At times, therapy can reinforce isolation The Lonely American: Drifting Apart in the Twenty-First Century Jacqueline Olds and Richard S. Schwartz Beacon Press. 224 pp. ISBN-13:978-0-8070-0034-2 Loneliness: Human Nature and ...
A Self-Care Checklist for Therapists
Mar 01, 2009; ... A Self-Care Checklist for Therapists by Lynn Grodzki Check items that are true for you. Checking more than half these items indicates that you're taking good care of yourself. Checking fewer than half means that you'll need to improve your self-care to maintain the energy you need to ...
Family Matters, Dust to Dust
Mar 01, 2009; ... Family Matters By Michael Hoyt Dust to Dust Our pets are our most unassuming teachers The first one was Rocky. He was a black-and-tan long-haired German shepherd, who went to college with me and then to graduate school. We were back in San Francisco. I was a postdoctoral fellow, ...
Recession-Proof Your Practice
Mar 01, 2009; ... Recession-Proof Your Practice Review, recommit, rebrand, reinvest by Lynn Grodzki During a recession, hiring a business coach may seem extravagant, but when Dina left a message on my voicemail, she sounded too desperate to care: "Lynn, you don't know me, but I have one of your books. It ...
Pink-Spoon Marketing
Mar 01, 2009; ... Pink-Spoon Marketing A model for the therapy practice of the future By Casey Truffo I just received this e-mail from Ann, a psychotherapist in Washington State: "Casey, for the first time in my 15-year practice, I'm starting to get really scared. At first, a few clients decided to Ôtake ...
Easy Money
Mar 01, 2009; ... Easy Money Maybe Our Parents Had it Right All allong by Fred Wistow Once upon a time, in the '50s and '60s, we were told there were two kinds of people: there were the rich people (out there, somewhere) and then, well, us. The rich people lived on the other side of a fence. We couldn't ...
Screening Room, Inside Out
Mar 01, 2009; ... Screening Room BY FRANK PITTMAN Inside Out Frost/Nixon and Milk hold a mirror to our fears We've all been outsiders at some time or other in our lives. (Remember first grade?) Back when I was growing up in the swamps of Alabama, all the boys knew that our little town wasn't the ...