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Family Attachment Narrative Therapy
2007-11-25 09:44:00
GoodTherapy .org maintains a list of psychotherapy & counseling approaches for the purpose of informing people about different forms of therapy. We’re currently updating this list of therapy models and we’ve just finished our update to Family Attachment Narrative Therapy. Family Attachment Narrative Therapy was developed to help resolve difficulties experienced by behaviorally disturbed ...
More About: Models , Psychotherapy , Methods

He Quit Drinking So Why Don?t I Have My Husband Back?
2007-11-21 06:37:00
Written by Mary Ellen Barnes, Ph.D. Click here to contact Mary Ellen and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile It’s a common, if quiet, complaint heard over lunch, or at breaks in meetings, at the Chamber of Commerce mixer, or the League of Women Voters retreat. “My husband finally quit drinking, attends AA, and life is certainly calmer, but?” ...
More About: Relationships , Drinking , Back , Quit , Intimacy

He Quit Drinking So Why Don’t I Have My Husband Back?
2007-11-21 06:37:00
Written by Mary Ellen Barnes, Ph.D. Click here to contact Mary Ellen and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile It’s a common, if quiet, complaint heard over lunch, or at breaks in meetings, at the Chamber of Commerce mixer, or the League of Women Voters retreat. “My husband finally quit drinking, attends AA, and life is certainly calmer, but…” The “buts” are varied, but essentially come down to the fact that while one’s spouse is no longer actively drinking little else has changed. An unfortunate side effect of AA and other 12-Step based programs is that while they may help a man stop drinking, they actually encourage him to maintain, and even expand, his focus on alcohol. So he continues to neglect his family and remain emotionally distant from his wife and she doesn’t even get to complain about it because he is “working his program.” For her, precious little has changed. “I’m truly glad that he isn’t drinking,&...
More About: Drinking , Back , Quit , Husband

Art As Therapy: Coping With Feelings of Grief During The Holiday Season
2007-11-20 07:22:00
Written by Tanya Vallianos MA, LPC, ATR Click here to contact Tanya and/or see her GoodTherapy .org Profile The holiday season can be a challenging time for most anyone as the stresses of finances, increased demands of time and tasks, and unrealistic expectations show themselves in a grand way. Furthermore, if you are a person that is working through feelings of grief at this time, everything can become compounded. The holidays can create feelings of depression, loneliness, and anxiety for the bereaved as they remember past events. Holiday s by nature are filled with nostalgia, tradition and ritual, but for those grieving, this can bring up conflicted feelings of both comfort and distress as the absence of the deceased becomes more apparent. As the rest of the world is celebrating, it’s important for grieving individuals to acknowledge their emotional pain and get through the season with a minimum amount of stress. Being able to express ones grief verbally can be difficult. Art exp...
More About: Season , Coping , The Holiday

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
2007-11-19 07:06:00
Good Thera py .org maintains a list of psychotherapy & counseling approaches for the purpose of informing people about different forms of therapy. We’re currently updating this list of therapy models and we’ve just finished our update to Dial ect ical Behavior Therapy (DBT), which is specialized form of therapy for people with a Borderline personality constellation. You can view the update to our section on Dialectical Behavior Therapy and/or view our entire list of psychotherapy & counseling models . Enjoy :)

Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy: An evidence-based treatment for childre
2007-11-14 07:01:00
Written by Arthur Becker-Weidman, Ph.D. Click here to contact Arthur and/or see his GoodThera py.org Profile INTRODUCTION The purpose of this article is to outline several of the elements of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy and demonstrate the evidence base for those components. While there have been a two outcome studies using control groups that demonstrated the overall effectiveness of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, the treatment is an integration of several approaches, methods, and techniques that each have strong evidence and empirical bases. The two outcome studies, coupled with the evidence base for the components of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, provide support for the efficacy of this model of treatment. A recent meta-analysis (Craven & Lee, 2006), based on the partial and preliminary results of one study in 2004, determined that Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy is, “supported and acceptable” (p.301). There has been a substantial amount of conf...
More About: Evidence , Treatment

Co Dependency: Addicted to the Potential of Love
2007-11-13 05:28:00
Written by Connie Miller MS, LPC, NCC, TEP Click here to contact Connie and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Today there is a universal spiritual movement in the field of psychology that cannot be ignored. The awareness of mystical experiences is becoming more and more common. As various holistic healing practices become more accepted, the trend is to integrate psychology with other methods of healing. In twelve-step programs, people heal through the telling and sharing of their own stories. It is through the sharing of the trauma and pain and the subsequent healing that people form common bonds that unite them. Then, to get beyond that connection of pain, they need to go further by sharing their soulful moments, their hopes, and their dreams. This requires re-establishing a relationship with their creativity and, through their higher awareness, connecting with others on a spiritual level. During my practice, which has focused on co-dependency and addictive family systems, I ...
More About: Love , Addicted , Addict

Movie Recommendation: Lady in the Water
2007-11-12 05:28:00
Written by David Pierce Click here to contact David Pierce and see his website: Friends Along the Road Hollywood - in the tradition of classic mythopoeia - tends to use bereaved parents and spouses in pivotal roles. They are often examples of those who’ve been through life’s worst extremes, and play lunatics, killers, shamans, and heroes. Because they have been eaten raw by the universe and regurgitated into something new, unpredictable, and powerful, the severely bereaved are regarded in classic high literature with more than pity, with a mixture of fear and awe. This attitude is rendered clearly in “Lady in the Water ,” a film by the director of “The Village” that left Judy and me in grateful astonishment, because it lay bare the path of our souls and rallied us to keep on going. The protagonist is the stuttering caretaker/handyman of an apartment complex in Philadelphia, who discovers a sea-nymph in his quarters. She has been living underneath t...
More About: Movie , Recommendation , Dati

GoodTherapy.org Membership is now Fee-based
2007-11-06 13:30:00
Dear GoodThera py.org Members After providing 9 months of free service to our members, GoodTherapy.org has switched to a fee-based membership. We now offer a very affordable monthly membership ($10) which comes with a REFERRAL GUARANTEE and opportunities to receive FREE months of membership. With over 50,000 unique monthly visitors and over 20,000 monthly searches of our directory, a fee-based membership will keep GoodTherapy.org at the top of online mental health & referral organizations, bring more referrals to you, and bring more information about healthy psychotherapy to the public. Membership comes with many benefits, including : Referral Guarantee FREE month of membership for every new member you refer Quality Referrals - People choose GoodTherapy.org because of our philosophy Respect - Member’s are associated with a well respected organization High Internet Visibility for your practice and your website FREE teleconferences with leading developers & therapists ...

Can Alcoholics Recover and Drink in Moderation?
2007-11-06 06:10:00
Written by Edward W. Wilson, Ph.D., MAC Click here to contact Edward and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile For decades the research, both formal studies and informal observations, has shown that some alcoholics could return to moderate or controlled drinking, and that many do. However, Alcoholics Anonymous and other powerful recovery programs have defined an alcoholic as a person who can never again drink in moderation. This has placed them in the curious position of maintaining that someone who returns to moderate drinking wasn’t an alcoholic - not matter how obvious the evidence to the contrary. While their traditional conceptions and definitions have caused the AA/12 Step organizations to reject the mounting evidence, they haven’t been alone. The treatment “industry” also has a vested interest in keeping definitions and solutions narrowly defined and simple. There is, in their lexicon, only one “disease” and one “cure.” Since 95% o...
More About: Drink

New Story added to the Healing Story Collection: Ana
2007-11-02 06:47:00
Dear GoodTherapy.org Member’s and visitors to our site, The GoodTherapy.org Team is pleased to announce that we’ve introduced the next story in the Heal ing Story Collection. This story, Ana, tells of one woman’s journey in befriending her anorexia and provides many insights into the healing of eating problems. Click here to visit the GoodTherapy.org Healing Story Collection and read Ana and if you’d like to comment on the story, the author has given us permission to accept comments here. Click here to leave comments, praise, empathy, or how you may relate personally to this story. All comments are moderated.

New Story added to the Healing Story Collection: Ana
2007-11-02 06:47:00
Dear GoodTherapy.org Member?s and visitors to our site, The GoodTherapy.org Team is pleased to announce that we?ve introduced the next story in the Heal ing Story Collection. This story, Ana, tells of one woman’s journey in befriending her anorexia and provides many insights into the healing of eating problems. Click here to visit the GoodTherapy.org Healing Story Collection ...

The Human Being of Therapy
2007-10-29 22:02:00
Good Thera py .org is pleased to introduce “The Human Being of Therapy,” a new column written by GT Member Greg Madison, Ph.D. Greg’s first contribution to “The Human Being of Therapy” is “Existential Migration,” which can be found by clicking here. Please enjoy Greg’s column and feel free to add your comments at the bottom of his article by clicking on the “comments” link. We’ll let you know when our other featured columnists begin their new series at GoodTherapy.org. Here are some of the columns to expect in the next few weeks: Ethics in Psychotherapy by Susan Buckles, LCSW, JD Integrating Spirituality & Psychotherapy by John Rhead, Ph.D. Collaboration and Nonpathology in Psychotherapy by Noah Rubinstein, LMFT

Integrating Psychotherapy and Spirituality
2007-10-29 16:05:00
A GoodThera py.org Featured Column written by John Rhead, Ph.D. Click here to contact John and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile Welcome to this column. I hope it will be interesting and valuable to those who read it, and to me as I write it. Why “integrating” psychotherapy and spirituality? This question seems silly to many people for one of two reasons. Some would say it is silly because the two must necessarily be kept separate, like church and state. Others would say it is silly because they are inherently intertwined and don’t require any effort on our part to be integrated. I am inclined toward the view that the two are inherently intertwined, but believe that they have been artificially separated by psychology, the discipline that most clearly undergirds most of what we practice in psychotherapy, in its zeal to be scientific. Freud’s disdain for religion didn’t help either. Of course there have always been those, like Carl Jung, who have kept alive the perspe...
More About: Spirituality , Psychotherapy

Alcohol Abuse, Abstinence and Moderation - AA and 12 Step Alternatives
2007-10-25 07:24:00
Written by Mary Ellen Barnes, Ph.D. Click here to contact Mary Ellen and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile No single idea keeps people from seeking help with their alcohol related problems as much as the mistaken belief that alcohol abuse, dependence, and addiction are always the symptoms of an actual “disease” and that there is only one “cure.” However, just as everyone knows someone who currently has problems with alcohol, we also know someone whose problems seemed to disappear. How can a supposedly life-long, progressive, and fatal disease simply evaporate and not just occasionally, but often enough for remission to be more the rule than the exception? Clearly something doesn’t add up and, not surprisingly, misleading impressions can be directly traced to the treatment industry’s advertising. Not that it’s totally false, just as self-serving as most ads. Unhappily, the hype has also been so successful that nearly everyone has come to bel...
More About: Abuse , Alcohol , Abstinence , Alternatives , Step

Expressive Art: Bringing Home the Inner Healer
2007-10-23 07:04:00
Written by by Tanya Vallianos, MA, LPC, ATR Click here to contact Tanya and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile There is an emerging movement around the world to use expressive arts in healthcare settings because of the numerous benefits to overall wellness. Large research hospitals such as Duke, Stanford, Ursaline, Georgetown, Dartmouth, Sloan-Kettering and Northwestern, and others, have long understood the value of bringing the expressive arts into the hospital proper. Medical science is finding that artistic activities can actually prolong patients survival rate by reducing stress levels, increasing relaxation, improving immune system functioning, reducing and improving blood pressure, heart rate and respiration, and reducing pain. The body is the vessel through which thoughts, sensations, emotions, and all of life are experienced. Our bodies literally contain cellular memories of all growth and regeneration. Consciously tapping into the wisdom of our bodies is a process by which ...
More About: Home , Heal

Conflict in Social Service
2007-10-19 05:43:00
Written by Bruce Bibee, MTP, LPC Click here to contact Bruce and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile Social services, as bureaucracies, have no incentive to “fix” the problems they deal with. What if we all refused to be victims? What if we could organize our lives so we could not be victimized? Regardless of how much a pipedream this is, for now imagine a world in which victimization just didn’t happen to you or to your family, friends, neighbors, and community. Assault, rape, burglary, and the like had become obsolete. Instead, our social service system (schools, churches, police, juvenile probation, treatment centers, after-school programs, and so on) trained each of us to live together in peace and harmony. This vision may be unrealistic, but the information is available to achieve this world. It would require an individual commitement of refusing to be victims of any crime, along with the support of society and its institutions to give folks the training to actually pull...
More About: Service , Conflict

Lighten Your Load: Transforming Emotional Baggage
2007-10-17 07:14:00
Written by Christine Horn, MA Click here to contact Christine and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile “The past is the past. Don’t cry over spilled milk. Put it behind you. Get over it already.” We all have voices within ourselves that say these kinds of things. Usually it is after some event or interaction has left us feeling angry, lonely, or hurt. These messages are from parts within ourselves that want to protect us. By saying these things they calm us down and prevent us from becoming “triggered” - feeling and reacting from the “emotional baggage” of our old, painful experiences and self-limiting beliefs. Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a style of therapy that calls these different voices parts. The language of “parts” may sound odd at first. Yet, we often speak this way quite naturally. For instance we may say, “part of me wants to go out tonight, but another part of me wants to stay home and chill out.” With IFS we use this language to get t...
More About: Load , Baggage , Emotional

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