The Cost of Avoiding Difficult Feelings Many clients suffer for years because they have developed so many ways to avoid their problems rather than face them.  They may call this "coping" with a problem, but in fact their elaborate strategies typically take a...

As in all interpersonal or physical aspects of our lives, there can be problems in sex, and sexual behavior. Perhaps no part of medical care is dominated by as much stigma as sexuality, and perhaps no other area carries as much misunderstanding as sexuality and sexual...

Three  Ways to Help More Clients With Therapeutic Homework Therapeutic homework can be an extremely beneficial way to help your clients learn new cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and social skills. And it also can be used to help people who are not your clients. ...

Resources & Information: List of Free Resources Free Resources The following are some free resources that may be available to crime victims. This information was shared as a result of a track that was offered last week at the SC Advanced Victim Assistance Academy...

Is This Missing From Your Therapy? Three Downloads That Can Enhance Social Intelligence While many therapists work on interpersonal effectiveness skills with their clients, relatively few take a take a broad view of the importance of social intelligence which includes...

Light Therapy May Boost Low Libido in Men Liam Davenport  September 20, 2016 VIENNA — Light therapy of the kind used to treat seasonal affective disorder may significantly improve sexual satisfaction in men with low sexual desire and arousal after just 2 weeks of...

Tri-County Veterans Support Network The Tri-County Veterans Support Network is a 501(c)3 Nonprofit Charity committed to effective advocacy and holistic service to our veterans and families.  We are focused on innovative and proactive outreach methods and strategies,...

Is pornography addictive? By Kirsten Weir  April 2014, Vol 45, No. 4 Pornography is a loaded subject. Opponents argue that it can ruin marriages, lead to sexual addiction or other unhealthy behaviors, and encourage sexual aggression. Proponents claim that erotica can...

Helping Clients Who Suffer From Catastrophic Thinking Catastrophic thinking, ruminating about irrational worst-case outcomes, is very common in people with anxiety disorders. This type of thinking makes people avoid situations because of their fear that something...

Why study creativity and creative processes? We are at a point in history where we possess far more systematic information about psychological approaches and psychological functioning—small as it still is in an absolute sense—than any of the thinkers possessed who...