Psychotherapy Notes

Psychotherapy Notes episodes:

• 01.26.2018

  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...

  
• 01.26.2018

  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...

  
• 12.05.2017

  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.

  
• 12.05.2017

  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.

  
• 12.05.2017

  05 - Public Service Loan Forgiveness

  When it comes to the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, rumors of its death have been greatly exaggerated.

  
• 12.05.2017

  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.

  
• 12.05.2017

  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.

  
• 12.05.2017

  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.

  
• 10.04.2017

  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...