The question of how to cope with the pandemic has been a big one for everyone over the past year. But it’s been a particularly difficult one for counseling psychologists. Not only have they had to deal with their own difficulties and anxieties, but they’ve also had to be the big shoulders for their patients.…
Read moreUnderstanding Attachment Styles and How They Affect Your Relationships
Attachment styles psychology is one of the most interesting fields for marriage and family therapists to explore and master today. Attachment styles are all about figuring out how people relate to other people. Attachment styles in relationships can make or break that relationship. Incompatible relationship attachment styles have been found to have a strong influence…
Read moreHow to Set Professional Boundaries as a Psychologist
Learning how to set professional boundaries in psychology is a tough part of becoming a counselor or therapist. You spend a lot of your training learning how to break through walls with your clients, not figuring out how to put them up. But ask anybody in the field, and they’ll tell you that you have…
Read moreTop 5 Police Reform Priorities Social Workers are Promoting
As if the psychological health and well-being of the American public wasn’t already impacted enough by the COVID-19 pandemic, the June murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis set off a simmering pile of racial and social justice issues. Probably primed by extended periods of isolation and growing unemployment, the unrest burst into open protest in…
Read more6 Ways Psychology Professionals Can Protect Themselves and Their Patients When Social Distancing Restrictions Are Finally Relaxed
There has been a lot of buzz in psychology circles about the sudden shift that the field has made to offer services remotely. COVID-19 and the strict social distancing requirements that followed might have been what kickstarted the trend, but there’s good reason to believe that telehealth will be a very normal way to provide…
Read moreScience Shows That Being Trapped with Your Kids in Quarantine Really Can Lead to a Mental Breakdown
Some psychologists trying to stay productive while isolating at home have been preparing for the big wave of COVID-19-related mental health issues by combing through the research on past pandemics to get an idea of what types of issues to expect. This has led many of us in the field to unearth a body of…
Read moreCan Instagram Be a Viable Platform for Providing Therapy Under COVID-19 Stay-at-Home Orders?
Like a lot of other work that used to be conducted primarily in person, counseling and therapy services have been abruptly shifting to an online-only format – all while trying to figure out where we fall on the essential services totem and interpret the mixed bag of stay-at-home orders handed down from state and local…
Read moreIn the Years Ahead, Addressing the Long-Term Psychological Effects of the COVID-19 Outbreak Will Fall to Today’s Psychology Students
With sirens constantly sounding through the streets of the major cities of the world, and bodies piling up in temporary morgues set up in freezer trucks outside hospitals, the physical effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are gripping the attention of the world right now. With the worst yet to come, that focus isn’t going to…
Read moreYour Guide to Transitioning to Online-Only Psychology Courses:
The Six Things You Can’t Live Without When COVID-19 Forces Your Psychology Program to Go Online With all the chaos that COVID-19 is unleashing on the world, the plight of college students in traditional psychology programs who suddenly find themselves going exclusively online isn’t something that’s exactly grabbing headlines. Still, we get it— the waves…
Read moreTop 10 Drinks that Will Help You Forget the COVID-19 Outbreak Just Turned You Into a Home School Teacher
The reality of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic is starting to set in for everyone. For grocery store staff it means hordes of toilet paper scavengers ravaging the shelves from dawn until closing. For first responders, doctors, and nurses, it means dealing with the horrific life and death choices of critically ill patients swamping emergency rooms.…
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