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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, [...]

Ask the Ethicist: Supervisors Need Competence Too!

Taline Andonian Asks:
As graduate students we receive training not only in academia but in a myriad of different clinical settings, which often lead to a wide range of experiences in terms of supervision. Because of the emphasis that is placed on clinical/practical training for clinical psychology programs in particular a graduate student’s competencies are strongly [...]

Conceptual skills needed for evidence-based practice of psychotherapy

Key ingredients needed for training of evidence-based practice are summarized by Ken Critchfield and Sarah Knox: scientific-mindedness, critical thinking, integrative ability, and relational skill.

Read the Latest Edition of the Psychotherapy Bulletin: 2010 45(2)

Psychotherapy Bulletin 45(2): Online Version

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, [...]

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 [...]

2010 45(1)

Psychotherapy Bulletin 2010, 45(1)

Conflict in Supervision: Avoidable or Useful?

By Lee Nelson
Supervision is a fact of life for most of us.  We experience years of supervision in our professional training sequence and possibly afterward, and many of us move on to becoming supervisors of other professionals.  In their classic text, Coping with Conflict, Mueller and Kell (1972), some of the earliest writers in the [...]