Therapy on the Cutting Edge

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With so many developments in the field of psychotherapy, so many integrations, innovations, and shifts from evidence-based to common factors, its hard to keep up! Therapy On the Cutting Edge is a podcast with hour long interviews of clinicians that are creating, innovating, researching, developing, and perfecting treatments for clients.

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Conducting Research in Private Practice

In this episode, Jaqueline Persons, Ph.D. discusses conducting research in private practice and contributing to the scientific literature. One important way clinicians can contribute to research is by She explains the importance studying of using data from practice settings to examine the role of cultural and other diversity in the treatment process, as many research studies have a lack of cultural diversity in the populations being studied. Dr. Persons values evidence based treatment and as the...

Mar 15, 2021•45 min•Ep. 5

Helping Parents to Use Evidence-Based Principles to Increase Resilience in Children & Teens

Muniya Khanna, Ph.D., discusses the next step in her career, which is helping get the tools of effective treatment into the hands of parents who want to help their children. She discusses her career in treatment and research, working with Martin Seligman, Ph.D. researching Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and her work with Philip Kendall, PhD. researching his CBT treatment for children, Coping Cat. Muniya tells about her interest in technology, and her work with Phil to make a computer progra...

Feb 25, 2021•56 min•Ep. 4

Using Parent-Child Attachment to Create a Secure Base and Overcome Adolescent Depression and Suicide - Attachment Based Family Therapy, An Empirically Supported Treatment

In this interview, Guy Diamond discusses his personal journal in developing Attachment Based Family Therapy, a proven, effective treatment, that helps adolescents with depression, trauma, suicide, and anxiety, as well as LGBTQ adolescent young adults and their families. Dr. Diamond discusses how, through clinical practice and research, he and his collogues learned to make those profound, heartfelt moments in family therapy happen more often in a more purposeful, and predictable manner, event in ...

Jan 19, 2021•59 min•Ep. 3

Rethinking the Gender Paradigm in Domestic Violence Treatment

Domestic violence often leads a therapist to determine that couples therapy is "contra-indicated", which may lead to treatment that could be helpful not being utilized. In this interview, John Hamel, PhD, LCSW discusses what the research tells us, and how his entry into the field of working with men who were domestically violent began with a model that was focused on men enforcing a patriarchy on women, but has evolved to consider the many ways that abuse manifests itself, from escalating confli...

Jan 17, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 2

The New/Old Breakthrough Treatment of Psilocybin Used in Therapy

Psilocybin (or magic mushrooms as it is commonly called) was used and researched in the treatment of mental health disorder extensively in the 50s and 60s, but stopped as the substance became illegal. Today, psilocybin has been named a "breakthrough treatment" by the FDA for the treatment of depression and other mental health disorders and is on track to be legalized for medical use. James Keim, LCSW discussed how psilocybin assisted therapy creates neuroplasticity, and helps clients change thei...

Nov 14, 2020•48 min•Ep. 1

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