New Approaches to Marital Therapy: The Dance, the Bond, the Drama This ebook draws from numerous articles and books including materials from Lachkar's forthcoming book, How to Talk to a Narcissist (2nd Edition. New York. Taylor and Francis). It defines a beleaguered...

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HIPAA Tip: When can PHI be disclosed to friends and family members? Sometimes family members and friends can be helpful when working with an adult mental health client. Here are some guidelines to keep you in compliance with confidentiality rules when the help of...

  To Google or Not to Google...Our Clients? Is it OK for Psychotherapists to Search their Clients on the Web? Ofer Zur, PhD Modern digital technologies have raised many new and complex clinical, ethical and legal issues for psychotherapists. One of the more...

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Critical Tools to Help Your Clients This Summer Although summer is supposed to be a time to relax and unwind, many clients experience a worsening of their symptoms during the summer months. Depressed clients may feel worse because they are unable to meet the cultural...

  The Manipulator: A Psychoanalytic View Manipulate: to control or play upon by artful, unfair, or insidious means, especially to one's      own advantage (Webster's). Ben Bursten begins his unique study of the practical and theoretical problems raised by...

13 Free Tools to Help You in Your Practice   Everyday there seems to be more news that reflects a crisis in our mental health system. There’s a dramatic increase in suicides. School shootings have become so commonplace that many students live in a perpetual state...

The dilemma of the "Request For Records" Therapists and others in the mental health community are often unsure what to do when confronted with a request for a client's therapy records. Here are a few practice pointers based on what I have learned over the years in...

Relational Listening: A Handbook In this brilliantly accessible RELATIONAL PERSPECTIVES HANDBOOK, Hedges is now offering the reader a crisply streamlined overview of his four Relational Listening Perspectives, with a few modifications and subtle refinements.  He...