{"title":"<i>The American Journal of Psychotherapy</i> Moves Forward With an Impact Factor of 2.5.","authors":"Holly A Swartz","doi":"10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20230039","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20230039","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46822,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY","volume":" ","pages":"133"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138446576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rediscovering Interpersonal Punctuation.","authors":"Devin Hussong, Jay S Efran","doi":"10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20230009","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20230009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The term <i>punctuation</i> in psychotherapy refers to narrative decisions about when a problem started and who should be held accountable for it. The concept was once a staple of family and systems therapies, but it has largely fallen into disuse. Its near disappearance coincided with the declining interest in those therapeutic approaches rather than as the result of direct attacks on the concept's validity or usefulness. In other words, punctuation seems to have been neglected rather than deliberately abandoned or supplanted. The authors argue for the continuing value of punctuation and its introduction to a new generation of clinicians. They also discuss several theoretical issues that were not well explored during the heyday of punctuation's popularity. Finally, the authors explore and illustrate the practical utility of punctuation in psychotherapeutic contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":46822,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY","volume":" ","pages":"150-153"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9832280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Appreciation to Reviewers.","authors":"","doi":"10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.23076001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.23076001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46822,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY","volume":"76 4","pages":"167"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138796524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ren Belcher, Rachel L MacLean, Scott R Beach, Robert J Waldinger
{"title":"Senior Resident as Junior Supervisor: Case Report of an Apprenticeship Model for Training Psychotherapy Supervisors.","authors":"Ren Belcher, Rachel L MacLean, Scott R Beach, Robert J Waldinger","doi":"10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20220061","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20220061","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Psychotherapy supervision is an essential component of graduate medical education in psychiatry. However, most psychotherapy supervisors have never had training specific to supervision, and the requisite skills have received little attention in the literature. The authors of this article describe the first year of a pilot project that was aimed at fostering interest and skill in psychotherapy supervision among senior residents. In this model, a postgraduate year (PGY)-4 resident supervised a PGY-2 resident's psychodynamic psychotherapy while receiving supervisory support from a senior faculty member. Feedback from the two residents and the residency program director was positive. The PGY-2 resident reported benefiting from near-peer supervision. The PGY-4 resident continued to supervise residents after graduation and felt well prepared to assume that role. The residency program continued to use this model after the pilot period. Other training programs can replicate this model to nurture the next generation of psychotherapy supervisors.</p>","PeriodicalId":46822,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY","volume":" ","pages":"154-158"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9931456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rationale for Adapting Group Interpersonal Therapy for the Treatment of Psychological Distress Among Seafarers.","authors":"Lindsay A White, Helen Verdeli, Petros D Petridis","doi":"10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20230015","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20230015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46822,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY","volume":" ","pages":"134-136"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10042441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sensory Disability and Psychotherapy Training: A Call for Inclusion.","authors":"William P Archuleta","doi":"10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20220042","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20220042","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46822,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY","volume":" ","pages":"163-164"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9487511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adages, Aphorisms, and Proverbs in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy: Tools for Assessment and Treatment.","authors":"Joel Yager, Jerald Kay","doi":"10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20230007","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20230007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study aimed to examine how adages, aphorisms, and proverbs arise in psychiatric management and psychotherapy and how they might be used to assist assessment and treatment.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A selective narrative literature review was conducted to supplement clinical observations and case vignettes.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Adages appear to act as heuristic cognitive structures that serve as shortcuts for assessing situations, educating, persuading, aiding emotional self-regulation, and influencing courses of action. Some types of psychotherapy-such as dialectical behavior therapy, rational emotive behavior therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy-and self-help programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous routinely utilize adages. The extent to and contexts in which adages spontaneously arise during general psychiatric and psychotherapeutic interactions have not been systematically studied. Clinicians can ascertain patients' favorite adages and appraise how patients respond to other sayings through exploratory questioning and by evoking responses to stock series of adages. As therapeutic tools, adages may help patients more easily conceptualize clinicians' interpretations and insights and may serve as encouraging affirmations.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Considering the potential utility of adages as therapeutic cognitive scaffolds, how patients and clinicians spontaneously use adages, how adages are used therapeutically, and the adages most suitable for particular patients in particular circumstances deserve further study. In psychiatric management and psychotherapy, clinicians' sensitivity to timing and patients' circumstances, culture, and receptivity may determine whether introducing a particular aphorism or proverb will have a positive impact or come across as a vapid and potentially harmful platitude.</p>","PeriodicalId":46822,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY","volume":" ","pages":"144-149"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9540288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Supervising Individual Psychotherapy: The Guide to \"Good Enough\".","authors":"Iulia Banica, Holly A Swartz","doi":"10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20230031","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20230031","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46822,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY","volume":" ","pages":"165-166"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10309008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Catherine Parkhill, Laura Mufson, Meredith Gunlicks-Stoessel
{"title":"Effect of Problem Area on Outcomes Among Adolescents Treated With Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depression.","authors":"Catherine Parkhill, Laura Mufson, Meredith Gunlicks-Stoessel","doi":"10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20220029","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20220029","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Interpersonal psychotherapy for adolescents (IPT-A) aims to treat depression by addressing one of four problem areas: grief, role disputes, role transitions, or interpersonal deficits. This study compared the characteristics of adolescents by problem area and evaluated the impact of problem area on outcomes.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Forty adolescents (ages 12-17) participated in a randomized trial of adaptive treatment strategies that included IPT-A.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Adolescents with role disputes were younger than adolescents with interpersonal deficits or role transitions and had worse expectations for therapeutic alliance than those in the transitions group. Adolescents with interpersonal deficits had higher attachment avoidance than those in the transitions group. Posttreatment, adolescents in the transitions group had more severe depression and social adjustment problems than those in the deficits group and more social adjustment problems than those in the disputes group.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This preliminary study's findings suggest that differing IPT-A problem areas may affect prognosis.</p>","PeriodicalId":46822,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY","volume":"76 3","pages":"128-132"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10885128/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10300056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Involving Parents in Child Mental Health Treatments: Survey of Clinician Practices and Variables in Decision Making.","authors":"Sonya Kurzweil","doi":"10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20220025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20220025","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Child therapy outcomes research has indicated that involving parents in child mental health treatments is generally beneficial. This study aimed to explore clinicians' decisions to involve parents in treatment for childhood disorders and child-, parent-, and clinician-related variables influencing these decisions.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data on decision making and reported use of parent involvement by 40 therapists with patients ages 6-12 were obtained from a self-report survey. Most clinicians were psychologists, White, and female and worked in community-based clinics. They reported using cognitive-behavioral and family system interventions considerably more than psychodynamic therapy.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Clinician-reported use of parent involvement was significantly greater for children with oppositional defiant or conduct disorder than for those with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, depression, anxiety, or posttraumatic stress disorder or trauma. A child's age and diagnosis (100% of clinicians), parental level of stress (85%), and parent interest in working with the clinician (60%) were frequently reported as being important to clinicians' decisions. Ninety percent of clinicians reported that they believed working with parents was effective, whereas only 25% reported their own training to be influential in decision making.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Findings regarding use of parent involvement stratified by common childhood disorder were not surprising, given the behavioral and treatment complexities of oppositional defiant or conduct disorder. Clinicians often reported parents' stress level and interest in working with the clinician as influencing decision making, reflecting the importance of lesser researched decision variables. The relatively limited influence of training on decision making suggests the need for better parent involvement education for clinicians treating children.</p>","PeriodicalId":46822,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY","volume":"76 3","pages":"107-114"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10281628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}