psychotherapy

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...