Friday Afternoon Workshops

314 – Therapy, Personal Ethics, and Civic Life

A New Ethical Frontier for Therapists

William Doherty

Clients bring all kinds of ethical dilemmas into therapy: to remain in an affair or end it, to cut off or stay connected to difficult family members, to tell the truth or

Tools for Countering Racial Trauma

CANDICE RICHARDSON DICKENS

African Americans regularly receive societal messages about their lack of value, powerlessness, and inability to ensure their personal safety. Perpetuated through media stories as well as common, everyday interactions, these microtraumas cause

How Men Really Experience Sex and Intimacy

VALERIA CHUBA

These days, male sexuality is a hot-button issue, surrounded by myths, misconceptions and controversy. Because many men already struggle with acknowledging and exploring their sexual challenges, desires, and experiences, doing authentic

The Benefits and Boundaries

Lynn Grodzki

There are good reasons why so many therapists are adopting a coaching style in sessions: it can create a strong sense of collaboration between therapist and client, and in doing so, grease the wheels

How to Help Clients Be More Present

Donald Altman

Over 150 years ago, while walking in the woods, Henry David Thoreau wrote, “The thought of some work will run in my head and I am not where my body is.

An Unaddressed Dimension of Work with Vets

PATRICK DOUGHERTY

Focusing on the symptoms of PTSD is not enough when working with veterans. We need to help them understand the larger society that wishes to forget the horrors of war and

How to Help Couples Become Better Than Ever

T. LEANNE CAMPBELL & DAVID FAIRWEATHER

Recent surveys suggest that almost half of all couples can expect to face challenges associated with extramarital affairs (sexual and emotional) at some point in their

Futility, Failure, and Forgiveness in Treatment

BRAD SACHS

When understood and managed well, even failures in therapeutic treatment can serve the needs of the client as well as the therapist. Our capacity to fully experience and explore, rather than fretfully

Temperament as a Therapeutic Issue

MICHAEL ALCÉE

Recent books, like Susan Cain’s Quiet, have celebrated the unique qualities and contributions of introverts and challenged our culture’s bias toward extraversion as a personal style. Through case examples, this session will

Helping BPD Clients Without Bias

ANITA MANDLEY

Most therapists understand that the extreme behaviors of people with a borderline personality disorder diagnosis are often strategies for survival, self-management, and attachment. But their intense abandonment fears, inappropriate anger, and extreme reactions

Addressing the Roadblocks to Change

ANDREW TATARSKY

More than one-third of Americans struggle with problematic substance use and other risky or addictive behaviors, but they often have a great deal of ambivalence about changing them. Even with clients whose issues

All You Need to Know

LAURA JACOBS

Transgender and gender nonconforming people are more visible these days than ever before, yet still remain vulnerable. To engage constructively, providers need to understand current social issues and the latest trends within their