Challenges to Coordinating Care in the age of “Integrated Care”
For those who regularly follow the news on health care the push for “integration” is one of the most frequently highlighted issues. The Affordable Care Act calls for and mandates…
Improving Effectiveness with an Integrative Approach to doing Therapy
A few weeks ago I attended an all day workshop on the Integrative Problem Centered Metaframeworks (IPCM) approach to therapy (1). This workshop activated my thinking about how to improve…
Some thoughts on Andrew Solomon’s “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”
Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity, by Andrew Solomon How do parents understand, accept, nurture, value, support and cope with children who are different from…
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Not Just CBT Light!
To begin with a little self-disclosure: I have been highly skeptical of ACT. First, the clinicians who first explained ACT to me probably were not the best ambassadors for the…
The Over-diagnosis and Over-treatment of ADHD
There has been a significant increase in both the diagnosis of ADHD and the use of stimulant (and other medications) to treat ADHD. A number of recent studies have highlighted…