Following  the ASGPP conference program for 2014,  you may be interested in this material:  Carol Dweck, PhD, from Stanford  offers many papers online at her Stanford Psychology Department webpage https://www.stanford.edu/dept/psychology/cgi-bin/drupalm/cdweck MINDSET   http://mindsetonline.com BRAINOLOGY  http://www.brainology.us/ Her Research Summary: My work bridges developmental…

I am just back from the annual ASGPP conference on group psychotherapy and psychodrama. I had the feeling many of the participants in the conference experienced something that might be called “moral hunger”, so this article may be of interest.…

When Martica Bacallao, PhD, TEP , Linnea Carlson-Sabelli, PhD, TEP and I, Ann Hale, met last Fall we discussed the possibilities of moving forward with providing evidenced based research on viability of role reversal as a process for improving interpersonal…

Carol Dweck is at Stanford and associated with the positive psychology movement that will be discussed at the ASGPP meeting in April. Some of Dweck’s research is directed at how to further learning–and she offers the idea that appreciating trial…

Does a Continuous Feedback Model Improve Psychotherapy Outcomes? —Jeff Reese, Larry Norsworthy, & Steve Rowlands Reese, R., Norsworthy, L., & Rowlands, S. (2009). Does a continuous feedback model improve psychotherapy outcomes? Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 46, 418-431. Category: PCOMS…

This article is interesting for at least 2 reasons: it discusses treating depression with CBT, but, perhaps more interestingly, demonstrates an approach to showing an evidence base for a treatment with a set of studies over time. This is the…

  Behav. Sci. 2014, 4(1), 31-41; doi:10.3390/bs4010031 Article Effectiveness of Group-Delivered Cognitive Therapy and Treatment Length in Women Veterans with PTSD Diane T. Castillo 1,2,* email, Katharine Lacefield 3email, Janet C’de Baca 1email, Abby Blankenship 4email and Clifford Qualls 5email…

Social Worker and Independent Scholar, West Bengal, India Harasankar Adhikari* Corresponding Author : Harasankar Adhikari, MSW, Ph.D Social Worker and Independent Scholar Monihar Co-operative Housing Society Flat No-7/2, 1050/2, Survey Park Kolkata-700075, West Bengal, India Tel: 09748031763 E-mail: jaoya123@yahoo.co.in Received…

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3198542/ The article discusses measures of therapeutic alliance as outcomes of psychotherapy in individual and group settings.

For families with kids with substance abuse, juvenile delinquency, and serious emotional disturbance, here is an article from Kansas on what constitutes the best practices.  https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu.  You might find this of interest not only for the practices it recommends but…