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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 are, [...]

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 in honor [...]

Assimilating Common Factor Treatment Components into Cognitive Therapy for Depression

Michael J. Constantino, Ph.D.
University of Massachusetts Amherst
A voluminous and ever-expanding research literature points to the general effectiveness of psychotherapy (Lambert & Ogles, 2004). Through the use of controlled clinical trials, psychotherapy researchers have identified many empirically-supported treatments for specific clinical phenomena (Roth & Fonagy, 2005). The extant research also suggests that, with just a few [...]

Three Ways to Improve our Effectiveness

By Bruce E. Wampold
Garrison Keillor observes of the residents of Lake Wobegon, “All the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.” As psychotherapists, it is likely that we similarly believe we are above average, but as Keillor’s folksy humor reminds us, it ain’t so—half of us are [...]