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Failure is Inescapable Therapists are bound not to be “perfect” in every session. After all, perfection isn’t a human quality, so clinicians will certainly make mistakes. Making mistakes over the course of a therapy career is — in one word — inevitable. But unless...

Is Getting Stuck the Beginning or the End? Your clients come to you with high hopes to eliminate or at least reduce the deficit from which they are suffering. So what do you do when a client stops making progress in therapy and it seems like your sessions are going...

Autism Complicates an Already Difficult Situation Students with autism learn and adapt in different ways from other children. Take something as basic as understanding the “new reality.” Although other students may understand why they have more homework and can...

When clients are resistant in therapy, it can be discouraging. Therapists want nothing more than for their clients to make the best use of their time, and advance consistently toward their goals. But since resistance invariably occurs, we need to be prepared for it so...

Your Most Precarious Phase in the Job Search If there’s any phase in the job search process where candidates slip up the most, it’s the interview phase, said Kathy Northamer, a district president at the Robert Half staffing agency in Minneapolis. “That’s why it’s...

Uncertainty Anxiety at its Core This is a time of unprecedented uncertainty. And as that uncertainty increases as a function of incessant change in the world, people’s anxiety levels are increasing as well. For some people, this will exacerbate their existing anxiety...

A Silent Heartbreak Rebecca Branstetter, Ph.D., a school psychologist, speaker, and author said that on day four of the second round of distance learning last fall, she saw something in her first-grade daughter’s Zoom meeting that broke her heart—both as a parent and...

Red Flags “Burnout doesn't typically just happen. First, you'll experience stress, then layers of chronic stress, then burnout which occurs when chronic stress becomes permanent. You'll start to notice that you're emotionally exhausted, fatigued, and not as connected...

Is Technology the Answer or Part of the Problem? Although technology is driving so much positive change in healthcare and in therapy, we can’t lose sight of the centrality of the human connection. Effective clinical interventions require real people delivering care....