Psychotherapy

Prompt, Dense Messages Key to Text-Based Counseling
Text-based counseling has a greater impact when text messages are fewer but longer, and when texting sessions last longer, according to a study involving a text-based counseling helpline for children.
Obstacles to a Therapeutic Alliance: Competing with a Biological Prejudice
As practitioners, we may be taught that therapy is a special, healing relationship, but that does not mean the public accepts this framework.
Psychologists Should Expect More Clarity Under New CPT Health Behavior Codes
New Medicare billing codes that took effect Jan. 1 govern the health behavior assessment and intervention (HBAI) services that psychologists deliver for patients with physical health issues.
The Importance of Boosting Your Self-Compassion
In the stressful environment of addiction counseling, clinicians need to take the time to treat themselves more kindly, Edward Hoffman writes.
Light Flashes Plus Cognitive Behavior Therapy Can Increase Teens' Sleep Time
Exposure to light flashes during sleep, combined with a brief cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) intervention, can increase total sleep time in teenagers, researchers say.
What Do You Specialize In?
As we wonder about the extent to which specialization is influenced by medical norms, should behavioral healthcare professionals pursue such a path?
Mental Health Care in Walmart: Increasing Access or Shortchanging the Profession?
BLOG: Walmart is planning to use its vast network of stores to host mental health clinics where self-paying patients could pay $1 per minute to see a mental health clinician.
Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy Showing Promise, but More Research Needed
SAN DIEGO—Psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy appears to have a beneficial and lasting effect on patient mood, but possible approval of the treatment remains some time away, a researcher said at Psych Congress 2019.
The Role of Self in Psychotherapy: The Power of Vulnerability
There has been a history of therapists being taught that there "should" be a great separation of self in a therapy session and that self-disclosure is not appropriate. In this webinar, we will be discussing the role of self in the psychotherapeutic…
Phase 3 Trials to Test MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy for PTSD
The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) is recruiting up to 150 participants for a phase 3 clinical trial investigating MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for the treatment of PTSD.
Depression as Disconnection: New Lessons From Psychedelic Psychotherapy Studies
BLOG: Recent qualitative studies on subjects treated with psilocybin may begin to help us understand the subjective experience caused by the drug that may lead to its antidepressant effects.

Videos

Using Psychedelics in Psychotherapy

Psych Congress Steering Committee members Andrew Penn, RN, MS, NP, CNS, APRN-BC, and Saundra Jain, MA, PsyD, LPC, discuss the latest research on the use of psychedelics with…

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How Does CBT Work With Cognitive Deficits in Psychosis?
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