Psychotherapy Notes

Developments in the world of counseling and psychotherapy. Episodes short enough that you can listen between sessions.

Episodes

09 - Measurement with Casey Meinster

January 25, 2018 • 9 mins

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.

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08 - Measurement, or, When Everyone Is Above Average, No One Is

January 25, 2018 • 3 mins

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 ...

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07 - Therapy and gender, with Angela Caldwell

December 4, 2017 • 8 mins

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.

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06 - Psychotherapy's gender gap

December 4, 2017 • 4 mins

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.

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05 - Public Service Loan Forgiveness

December 4, 2017 • 3 mins

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

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04 - Student loan debt - Two stories

December 4, 2017 • 5 mins

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.

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03 - Student loan debt

December 4, 2017 • 5 mins

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.

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License Exams with Kim Madsen

December 4, 2017 • 5 mins

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.

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Episode 1 - How licensing exams are like the TSA

October 3, 2017 • 3 mins

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.

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Psychotherapy Notes

Episodes

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07 - Therapy and gender, with Angela Caldwell

06 - Psychotherapy's gender gap

05 - Public Service Loan Forgiveness

04 - Student loan debt - Two stories

03 - Student loan debt

License Exams with Kim Madsen

Episode 1 - How licensing exams are like the TSA

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09 - Measurement with Casey Meinster

08 - Measurement, or, When Everyone Is Above Average, No One Is