CFFC Staff, Author at The Centers for Family Change

CFFC Staff

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Improving Effectiveness with an Integrative Approach to doing Therapy

11 years ago

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…

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Some thoughts on Andrew Solomon’s “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”

Book Reviews

11 years ago

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…

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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Not Just CBT Light!

On Psychotherapy

12 years ago

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

ADHD

12 years ago

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…

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Cognitive Control, Brain Exercise and ADHD: Here we go again!

ADHD

13 years ago

A recent article in the New York Times, which has been circulating among therapists suggests the benefits of “exercising the mind” to treat ADHD. While this idea is tremendously appealing,…