John Norcross is Distinguished Professor and chair of psychology at the University of Scranton and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical University. He also maintains a part-time practice as a clinical psychologist. He is the author of Changeology and co-author of Changing for Good. Professor Norcross has served as president of the American Psychological Association Division of Psychotherapy, the Society of Clinical Psychology, and the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration. He has received many awards, including the APA’s Distinguished Lifetime Contributions to Education & Training Award. Some of his most significant contributions to the field have been in the areas of the transtheoretical model of change and empirically supported psychotherapy relationships.

n the first episode of the Making Therapy Better Podcast, Bruce and John talk about the future of mental health care, the need to increase access to mental health services, and the value of interventions outside of traditional psychotherapy such as support groups and digital therapeutics.

You can learn more about John at https://www.changeologybook.com/dr-john-norcross/

John is also on twitter, Wikipedia, and at the University of Scranton

The intro and outro music is the Borromeo String Quartet performing Beethoven's "String Quartet No. 3 in D Major"

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