This sounds really familiar… Countless people are wondering if the discomfort they’re experiencing is “normal” or if others are in the same boat. Not only is the feeling normal given the circumstances. It has a name: adjustment disorder. Clinically speaking, adjustment disorder is a stress response syndrome people experience in light of an identifiable life…
It’s always nice when a study backs up what you’ve written about before. “It often helps to smile at others to ease social tensions. Recognizing a smile is much more difficult when the mouth is covered. You’d think so. But I and my colleagues know from one of our studies, which will be published soon,…
I, frankly, did not realize these statistics about therapists, but if I stop to think much about it, I’m not surprised. According to a 2015 study by the American Psychological Association, 83.6 percent of psychologists are White, while only 14.6 percent combined are Black, Latinx and Asian (and that doesn’t even account for Native Americans and other minority communities). While therapists specialize in a variety of…
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In a bit of a followup to my own post earlier this week, I found this comment of James’s from the article below interesting, and insightful: “So when we look at the news and social media or listen to our conversations, we need to observe carefully, not just the content we are taking in, but…
Nicholas makes a good point about something that does need to be updated to allow for remote therapy. All this allows a continuity of care for clients that before was impossible; there is, however, a caveat. Because of the coronavirus, some of my clients at USF who live out-of-state have moved back home. That means,…
