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    Adult client remembers father french kissing her at a young age, but nothing else? Does french kissing qualify as sexual trauma/abuse?

    Client says she thinks she was 5 or 6 when her father and her french kissed, she believes more than once. Does not remember it being traumatizing or forced at all. Did not understand it was inappropriate until much much later. Despite claiming the memory is not traumatic to her, client appears...
  2. Fan_of_Meehl

    Use of the MMPI-2-RF in Veterans Affairs Clinic Settings

    Greetings, I would like to survey the opinions, experiences, pitfalls, advice, etc. from professional colleagues who have tried to utilize objective personality/psychopathology testing in clinical (treatment) settings at VA such as the MMPI-2-RF or PAI.
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    Seeking Therapists for Brief Online Study (Chance to Win a $100 Amazon Gift Card!) - New/Fixed Link!!!

    Hello everyone, It's been brought to my attention that the link in my previous post about this same project was not working. I apologize! Here is the post again with a corrected link. Thank you, Michael --- Hello everyone! I am a fourth year Clinical Psychology doctoral student at Long...
  4. mdwpsyd

    PhD/PsyD Psychotherapy and depressive symptom trajectories among VA patients: Comparing dose-effect and good-enough level models

    Interesting research that rings pretty true for me. What do you think? CITATION Lee, A. A., Sripada, R. K., Hale, A. C., Ganoczy, D., Trivedi, R. B., Arnow, B., & Pfeiffer, P. N. (2021). Psychotherapy and depressive symptom trajectories among VA patients: Comparing dose-effect and good-enough...
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    Medical school vs. PsyD/PhD?

    I’m debating whether I should go to medical school or get a PhD/psyd? I want to be able to both provide sex and sexual trauma based therapy, sex education, and also build clinical programs in human sexuality. I would also like a mixed job where I’m seeing patients, working with a team, and doing...
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    MCAT with Computer Science / Engineering background

    Hi All, I have a Bachelors in Computer Engineering and MS in Management Information Science. I want to study and be a Psychotherapist / Psychology and earn the prestigious "Dr." tag. In the process I would like to know if I'm eligible to sit for MCAT and go to a med school.? If not, do I have...
  7. slappy

    Would you allow patients to record their visits if they ask you?

    A recent discussion at a different forum got me thinking. Would you allow patients to record your interaction with them? I have segmented the poll answers to allow for various considerations.
  8. DrRedstone

    Popular Psychotherapy for Psychiatrists

    I've seen a lot of threads pop up about psychotherapy for psychiatrists. During my masters degree in psychology I was exposed to the fundamentals of psychotherapy and found many of them to be really interesting. I know that CBT is really popular as far as evidence based therapy, but I also know...
  9. IncognitoCats

    Psychotherapists out there in private practice, ahoy!

    Generous people - I am navigating my way into your profession, and would love your advice on the questions in boldface below. I am 40, I have a BA, MA, PhD, postdoc fellowship, and a university career at an Institute for Advanced Study, all at top 20 world-ranked universities in the UK and...
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    Unethical classroom activity

    I'm on a psychotherapy degree course. So in class the tutors got us to look at a case study. They made comments hinting that it was about me and I felt belittled. The funny thing is that it didn't describe me except for one similarity. The irony is that, perhaps without them realising, the...
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    Quick research survey for doctoral/masters students in psychology and practicing psychotherapists

    Hi All, I'm a 4th year doctoral student in clinical psychology and need participants for my research project. The study takes less than 10 minutes to complete and involves answering several demographic questions and filling out a brief multiple choice self-report measure in the form of a...
  12. CommunityCareAllianceRI

    Psychiatrist Wanted in Rhode Island (actual psychotherapy!)

    Would you like to be doing psychotherapy instead of just medication maintenance? Community Care Alliance, a state-of-the-art Health Home community mental health center in Rhode Island seeks a Board Eligible/Board Certified Psychiatrist to help incorporate psychiatric services within our Adult...
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