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
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315 – Microtraumas and the African American Client
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
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316 – Male Sexuality, Demystified
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
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317 – Translating Coaching into Therapy
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
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318 – Reclaiming Reflection and the Power of Pause
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.
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319 – The Collective Trauma of War
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
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320 – Healing Affairs and Repairing Attachment Injuries
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
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321 – The Good Enough Therapist
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
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322 – Working with Introverts and Ambiverts
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
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323 – Beyond the Borderline Label
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
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324 – A Harm-Reduction Approach to Addictions
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
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325 – Transgender Affirmative Care
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
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