What the evidence says about doing therapy well.
Australian psychologists are trained and qualified to diagnose. Whether that diagnosis is accepted is about who controls the money, and about a DSM being used for purposes it was never designed for.
Mum says the separation is amicable and asks you to see her daughter. It feels safe to say yes. In the early days of a high-conflict separation, safe and effective treatment of the child may not be possible at all.
Most junior psychologists treat the first session as a chance to gather information. The client is deciding whether to come back. Here are three things that matter more than the genogram.
Suicide risk has endless gradations, but our responses come in only a few steps. The question isn't how high the risk is; it's whether the risk now justifies the costs of the next level of response. Written for clinicians.
Your progress notes are probably the place you are most likely to harm a client. Notes exist to manage risk, and every field you add to a template is a new risk of its own.
This blog is a public service, as I must have discussed this issue with more than a dozen supervisees or practice owners in the past month alone. So in this instance, rather than paying for a consult, please feel free…
What is a paradigm shift? The idea of a paradigm shift has been hijacked by advertising agencies and used to describe everything from a new smartphone, to a lower fat cheese. But in science, the idea of a paradigm shift has a slightly more nuanced meaning. Physicist and philosopher Thomas Kuhn coined the …
Early drop-out is one of the leading causes of poor therapy outcomes, and one of the simplest things to measure. Three evidence-based ways to reduce it.
