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Treatment of Comorbid PTSD and Substance Abuse Shows Support of the Self-Medication Model

By Michael Constantino and Jeffrey Magnavita. Summary In an RCT study of 353 women assigned to either 12 sessions of trauma-focused or health education group treatment the researchers found that PTSD severity reductions were more likely associated with substance use improvement whereas minimal reduction in PTSD was found with substance use reduction (Hein et al., [...]

2010 45(1)

Psychotherapy Bulletin 2010, 45(1)

Call For Proposals: Charles Gelso Psychotherapy Research Grant (April 15)

Request for Proposals Charles J. Gelso, Ph.D. Grant Description This program awards grants for research projects in the area of psychotherapy process and/or outcome. In alternating years the grant is awarded to graduate students or doctoral level psychologists. Program Goals Advance understanding of psychotherapy process and psychotherapy outcome through support of empirical research in these [...]

Important Changes Approved by the APA Council

The APA Council In Action!  By Linda Campbell and Norine Johnson. We are quite used to stalemates, filibusters, and partisanship these days, aren’t we? I wish you could all have attended this Council meeting to see actual decision-making, compromise, and respectful disagreement. There were items on this Council agenda that truly spoke to who we [...]

New Psychotherapy Research Grant Named in Honor of Charles J. Gelso

CHARLES J. GELSO, PH.D., PSYCHOTHERAPY RESEARCH GRANT Division 29 created the annual Charles J. Gelso, Ph.D., Psychotherapy Research Grant to provide annual grants (up to $2000) supporting the advancement of research on psychotherapy process or psychotherapy outcome. Grant eligibility rotates biannually between graduate students/predoctoral interns and doctoral level psychologists/postdoctoral fellows. The grant program was established [...]

Ask The Ethicist: Phone Therapy

Question by Dr. Betty Scott Noble. I have a female client I have seen for several years (abusive marriage then divorce and a very recent re-marriage). She has moved with her new husband about two hours away and does all her work by computer, so she doesn’t come to Atlanta anymore. She asked if I [...]

UMass Amherst Offers Unique Mental Health Program for Veterans Returning to College

Division 29′s Internet Editor, Dr. Christopher Overtree, talks about a new program at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst for Veterans Returning to College.

Ask The Ethicist: The Role of Technology in Psychotherapy

Linda asks a number of very important questions about the role the use of technology in research and practice, to include the recording (audio and/or visual) psychotherapy sessions, supervision, peer consultation, research, and presentations.  Additional questions concern the role of informed consent when making such recordings, the role of HIPAA and other confidentiality and privacy [...]

Ask the Ethicist: A Request For An Anonymous Consultation

Question by Dr. Overtree I have a client referral who is requesting, via an anonymous email message, to be screened by me as a possible patient anonymously. Although he states he is not suicidal or homicidal, nor does he meet any of the criteria for possible involuntary hospitalization (by his own report), he remains extremely [...]

Ask the Ethicist: Therapist Shopping in a Client with PTSD

Question from Dr. Magnavita I have been treating a man with complex PTSD who started to see me after his transference feelings toward his previous psychotherapist became unmanageable. He sees me infrequently and has consulted with about 5 subsequent therapists who he reports trigger his trauma. He frequently emails me and occasionally sees me for [...]

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