Sexual therapists are рrоfеѕѕіоnаlѕ whо ѕkіllfullу mеdіаtесоmmunісаtіоn іѕѕuеѕthаt соuрlеѕ hаvе rеgаrdіng sex bу аѕkіng quеѕtіоnѕ аbоut рrоblеmѕ аbоut whісh you аnd...
If someone offers to do hands-on work or conduct sessions in the nude, they are clearly NOT sex therapists. Make sure that your therapist is credentialed by the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists and/or a related graduate therapy degree with a license to ...
Recent articles in child psychiatry in America are reviewed, with emphasis on those studies ofinterest to family therapists. Major areas covered include: normal development, deviant development, and the impact of trauma. Differences from the "family therapy" literature include: multi-causal explanations...
What Does Someone With an MFT License Do? Before exploringhow to become an LMFT, you may want to consider the position’s primary responsibilities and functions. On a day-to-day basis, marriage and family therapists may be responsible for helping individuals, couples and family members work thr...
In addition to group services, a family therapist usually holds individual sessions to better understand each family member. Individual counseling can be useful since a person may feel more comfortable disclosing private information in a one-on-one setting than with the family present. A skilled the...
Adolescents who use the Internet regularly (the “e-teen”) present a new set of challenges for marriage and family therapists. This article introduces marriage and family therapists to (a) the basic technological concepts and unique psychological characteristics of the Internet important in understandi...
The Role of Sex Therapists This case is typical of both the kind of people who visit sex therapists and the type of work therapists do. Sex therapists focus specifically on the sexual side ofrelationships-- that intimate zone that is so hard to discuss but is so crucial to a relationship’...
After about 50 years of family therapy (FT), many family therapists and researchers have highlighted "communication" as what really matters in FT. In this presentation I review the history of the FT movement as related to the idea that conversation is the primary means through which families or...
A private therapist counsels patients as part of their own private practice. This type of a therapist is not associated with a specific hospital, clinic or practice. The responsibilities of private therapists are similar to those that are working in a practice, in that they deal with the treatm...
You may be thinking, "Well, psychiatrists, psychologists, family therapists, and other mental health professionals surely know what to do with these symptom pictures. Maybe it isn't an exact science but more like an art, where, through practice, these professionals begin to discern the difference...