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1 day ago · Therapy is great. It gives you the space, time and resources to handle the most difficult challenges of life. Therapy can be especially helpful in the often-confusing life period of your 20s and ...
1 day ago · Key points. The therapist you choose can have a profound impact on how quickly you begin to feel better. Your therapist should be warm, empathetic, honest, and transparent with you. Therapists who ...
5 days ago · Abigail Shrier’s latest book asks if embedding therapy for children in mainstream culture is doing more harm than good Abigail Shrier in Los Angeles, California earlier this year. Photo: Dan ...
2 days ago · It can help to break therapy down into two phases: the acute phase and the maintenance phase. The acute phase is when you are not doing well. This includes your symptoms at their worst, and as ...
4 days ago · Curt and Katie chat about ethics again. We look at how therapists decide what is beneficial for clients. We also contrast the concept of “beneficence” (doing good) versus “nonmaleficence” (doing no harm). We specifically explore how to identify when something is in the therapist’s interest versus the client’s interest as well as what therapists can do when clients hold harmful ...
2 days ago · Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a great tool that allows us to be mindful and aware of our thoughts in neutral, accepting ways, neither viewing them as “good or bad.” Rather, this form of therapy encourages us to take some distance between ourselves and our thoughts, recognizing that we are not the content of our thoughts.
3 days ago · Her second book, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up, delivers analysis that hits just as hard and is a tremendous read. Shrier’s incisive wit and writing acumen draw the reader in. It’s a book every parent should read. Iatrogenesis — or when medical help, in fact, causes harm— is the framework on which Shrier sets her thesis.
