Developments in the world of counseling and psychotherapy. Episodes short enough that you can listen between sessions.
09 - Measurement with Casey Meinster
Casey Meinster, of Hathaway-Sycamores in Pasadena, joins us to talk about measuring outcomes in psychotherapy. Her agency's funding depends on their staff gathering data on every single client, and that is rapidly becoming the norm for larger mental health care providers.
1/26/2018 • 9 minutes, 27 seconds
08 - Measurement, or, When Everyone Is Above Average, No One Is
In two separate studies almost a decade apart, hundreds of mental health clinicians evaluated their own work compared to that of their colleagues. In both studies, *not a single participant* evaluated themselves as being below average. In this episode, we'll talk about why we as therapists and counselors think we're so good, and how measuring outcomes can give you a far more accurate and useful -- if occasionally humbling -- picture.
1/26/2018 • 3 minutes, 47 seconds
07 - Therapy and gender, with Angela Caldwell
We talk with Angela Caldwell (yes, relation) about what men want from their usually-women therapists, and how that knowledge transformed her work with men.
12/5/2017 • 8 minutes, 58 seconds
06 - Psychotherapy's gender gap
The overwhelming majority of therapists are women, and the gender balance in the field is only growing more one-sided. We'll talk about gender in the therapy world, and the impact of having so few men around.
12/5/2017 • 4 minutes, 21 seconds
05 - Public Service Loan Forgiveness
When it comes to the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, rumors of its death have been greatly exaggerated.
12/5/2017 • 3 minutes, 38 seconds
04 - Student loan debt - Two stories
Two students at a private graduate program. Together they have amassed more than half a million dollars in student loan debt. These are their stories, in their own words.
12/5/2017 • 5 minutes, 2 seconds
03 - Student loan debt
When educational costs rise but salaries don't, the burden of student loan debt gets tougher and tougher for therapists. On this episode, we discuss just how much of a burden that is.
12/5/2017 • 5 minutes, 42 seconds
License Exams with Kim Madsen
We talk with Kim Madsen, the Executive Officer of the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, about the mythology surrounding license exams and what she recommends if your test is coming up.
12/5/2017 • 5 minutes, 20 seconds
Episode 1 - How licensing exams are like the TSA
They're a rite of passage every counselor and therapist has to go through. And yet, there's no actual evidence that they do the one thing they are supposed to do: Ensure safe practice. In this first episode of the Psychotherapy Notes podcast, we talk about the problems with license exams -- and why we should keep them anyway.