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Book Review: Healing the Incest Wound by Christine A. Courtois, PhD

Review by James A. Chu, MD.
Healing the Incest Wound, originally published in 1988, was a landmark achievement in the modern era of trauma psychiatry and psychology. Christine Courtois, PhD is one of the pioneers who helped rediscover the long-neglected effects of pandemic childhood sexual abuse and to introduce treatment models that could help incest victims [...]

Diversity Challenge 2010 Conference: Race and Culture in Teaching, Training, and Supervision

Diversity Challenge 2010 Conference: Boston, MA
Race and Culture in Teaching, Training, and Supervision
October 15-16, 2010 in Boston , Massachusetts
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Two days of presentations and workshops for teacher educators, researchers,
mental health professionals, community members, and students interested in
community activities and activism, developments in research, professional practice,
education, and/or social initiatives as they pertain to teaching, training, [...]

Graduate Student Stephanie Budge Awarded First Charles J. Gelso Psychotherapy Research Grant

Congratulations to Stephanie Budge, who has been awarded the first Charles J. Gelso, Ph. D. Psychotherapy Research Grant. Division 29 created this grant program to provide annual grants (up to $2000) supporting the advancement of research on psychotherapy process or psychotherapy outcome.
Stephanie is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Department [...]

Congratulations To New Division 29 Officers

We are delighted to announce the new Division 29 members of the Board of Directors (with terms starting January 2011):
President-Elect: Marvin R. Goldfried, Ph.D.
Diversity Domain Representative: Caryn Rodgers, Ph.D.
Early Career Domain Representative: Susan S. Woodhouse, Ph.D.
Science and Scholarship Domain Representative: Norman Abeles, Ph.D.
Council Representatives: Linda F. Campbell, Ph.D., and John C. Norcross, Ph.D.

Congratulations and thank [...]

Book Review: Choose to be Happily Married, How Everyday Decisions Can Lead to Lasting Love

By Staci Weiner, Psy.D.
Apple Psychological, LLP.
www.applepsychological.com.
Choose to be Happily Married, How Everyday Decisions Can Lead to Lasting Love by Bonnie Jacobson, Ph.D., Publisher Adams Media, May 2010.
This is a relationship road map; a manual for relationships that leads to successful communication, listening skills, and ultimate connection between two people. Illustrating twenty-five crucial turning points, [...]

An Exciting 2010 APA Convention for Division 29

By Jack C. Anchin, Program Chair & Jeffrey J. Magnavita, President.
The Division of Psychotherapy is pleased to offer an exciting convention program this year in San Diego!  We want to thank everyone for their fine submissions and let you know that we very much appreciate the time and effort that goes into these. Unfortunately, [...]

Clinical Implications of Therapist-Client Interactions on the Internet: Boundary Considerations in Cyberspace

By Dr Keely Kolmes and Dr. Dan Taube.
Our society and, indeed, the world, is becoming increasingly networked via the Internet, and mental health practitioners are beginning to rely more heavily on the World Wide Web. As this happens, reports of encounters with clients and treatment complexities have begun to emerge (Grohol, 2008; Hsiung, 2009). The [...]

Book Review: Bringing Psychotherapy Research to Life Legacies from the Society of Psychotherapy Research

A Review of
Bringing Psychotherapy Research to Life: Legacies from the Society of Psychotherapy Research
Editors: Louis G. Castonguay, J. Christopher Muran, Lynne Angus, Jeffrey A. Hayes, Nicholas Ladany, and Timothy Anderson
Review by Donald K. Freedheim, PhD
Louis Castonguay and his team of editors (six all together) have undertaken a gigantic task in organizing this biography of renowned psychotherapy [...]

American Psychological Association Health Care Reform Activities Update

Over the past two weeks, historic health care reform legislation was signed into law—the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148) on March 23 and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (P.L. 111-152) on March 30, which includes a package of amendments. The legislation is primarily designed to [...]

Division 29 President Jeffrey Magnavita Announces Task Force on Psychologist-Psychotherapists

The Task Force on Psychologist-Psychotherapists (TOPP) of the Division of Psychotherapy was formed as a Presidential initiative of Jeffrey J. Magnavita and led by Jeffrey Barnett to explore the myriad of issues related to this topic and make recommendations to the Board of Directors during the October 2010 board meeting. The task force was initiated [...]

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