Integrating technology and mental health can empower practitioners to deliver optimal services to clients and sustain a thriving practice. There are several ways in which you can effectively leverage...
Clients Who Made Me Better: First Lessons
October 16 2018
It’s never too late to be who you might have been.
Reliance on the Alliance, Part 4: The Client’s Theory of Change
October 09 2018
Ideally, therapists should select for each patient the therapy that accords, or can be brought to accord, with the patient’s personal characteristics and view of the problem. - Jerome Frank
Reliance on the Alliance, Part 3: The Tasks of Therapy
October 02 2018
The alliance is the central filter of all your words and actions: Is what I am saying and doing now building or risking the alliance? Bordin (1979) classically defined the alliance with three...
Reliance on the Alliance, Part 2: Client Goals
September 26 2018
The alliance is an all-encompassing framework for psychotherapy — it transcends any specific therapist behavior and is a property of all aspects of providing services. It calls for your utmost...
Reliance on the Alliance, Part 1
September 17 2018
Listening creates a holy silence. When you listen generously to people, they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time. And when you listen deeply, you can know yourself in everyone.
5 Tips for Using the Outcome and Session Rating Scales
September 07 2018
The Outcome Rating Scale and Session Rating Scale, key components of the Partners for Change Outcome Management System (PCOMS), are not only reliable measures of psychotherapy benefit and the...
The Heroic Client
September 05 2018
Until lions have their historians, tales of hunting will always glorify the hunter. African Proverb
How to Choose a Mental Health Assessment Tool
August 17 2018
Mental health assessment tools, also called outcome management tools or quality improvement tools, are often part of what is called routine outcome monitoring (ROM) or systematic client feedback....
5 Steps to Accelerate Your Development
August 15 2018
How do you accelerate your development? The prerequisite is your understanding that you are a primary figure in each client’s ultimate outcome — the client is certainly central but, as the old saying...