The series Advances in Psychotherapy – Evidence-Based Practice provides readers with practical evidence-based guidance on the diagnosis and treatment of the most common disorders seen in clinical practice in a compact, reader-friendly manner.
Supreme Court’s 2022–2023 Term Introduction On Monday, October 3, 2022, Supreme Court Marshal Gail Curley cried, “Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! All persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States, are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the Court is now sitting. God save the United States and this […]
Vignette Taylor, a 31-year-old non-binary, single parent of a 5-year-old and 2-year-old twins, presented for evaluation following an annual physical with their primary care physician. Taylor had no complaints other than fatigue that they attributed to long work hours, recently returning to night school, and sole caretaking responsibilities for their 3 children. They also expressed […]
Clinical Vignette At the initial meeting, “Mrs. Lopez,” a 56-year-old, monolingual Spanish-speaking White Latinx divorced woman with three adult children, was living by herself in an underserved community. Mrs. Lopez was born and raised in northern Mexico and moved to the United States as an adult. She was referred for cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) by […]
The COVID-19 pandemic turned the nature and scope of clinical training and supervision on its side (Soheilian et al., 2023). Essentially overnight, supervisors and supervisees were forced to adapt to online platforms for supervision and psychotherapy. They were put in a position of having to use technological applications they had previously used only occasionally, if […]
Vignette Martin came to see me after many failed attempts at therapy. He is an artist in his mid-thirties who immigrated to New York City from Mexico in order to study art. He suffered for years from depression and anxiety, had a difficult time trusting others, and both longed for and feared closeness. He felt […]
Some readers may prefer to read this article in PDF format, available on the Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy website. ABSTRACT A healthy marriage is a crucial protective factor for adapting to the challenges of late life. Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for couples is an attachment-based model of psychotherapy that emphasizes here-and-now processing of emotion in a […]
Original article title: Supporting the Prevention of Adverse Childhood Experiences in the Clinical Setting Clinical Vignette Felicity[1] is a 30-year-old female who resides in a small town in the Midwest. Overall, Felicity is agreeable and friendly but showed significant distress multiple times throughout the assessment process, especially when talking about prior and current abuse in her […]
Clinical Vignette Mr. Wilson is a 37-year-old male veteran with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) related to combat service in Iraq and a past history of alcohol use disorder. He had two deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq. His job was ordinance removal for which on several occasions he had to clean up after a bomb explosion. […]
Clinical Vignette Irving Gardner is a 48-year-old married Black heterosexual cisgender man working as a lawyer who was referred for treatment by his primary care provider. His presenting problems were nocturnal complaints of difficulty initiating and maintaining sleep and daytime complaints of fatigue and difficulties with concentration and attention. He also presented with daytime and […]