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How Therapy Works
by Jeffery Smith MD
A non-denominational guide to psychotherapy for new and experienced therapists based on the book, Psychotherapy: A Practical Guide by Jeffery Smith MD, Joined here by Amelie Southwood LMHC. Be sure to see more about this new approach to training at http://www.howtherapyworks.com.
Episodes
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#26 Our Final Podcast: What the Affect Avoidance Model Means to You
Following Chapter 22 in the book, we discuss the significance and future of the approach presented here, based on facilitating the universal processes that allow change in psychotherapy.
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#25 Working with Trauma, PTSD, and Dissociation
Continuing our catalog of problems and how to approach them in therapy, we look at trauma, the damage it can do, and how to work with these issues. This episode parallels Chapter 21 in Psychotherapy: A Practical Guide.
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#24 Digging into Anxiety
In this episode, we look at the many and critically important problems related to anxiety and how psychotherapy can help. This episode runs parallel to Chapter 20 in Psychotherapy a Practical Guide.
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#23 Depression, Part 2.
In this episode, we continue our discussion of depression, starting with conditions that may look like depression but aren't. We go on to discuss treatment principles in a continuation of Chapter 19 in Psychotherapy: A Practical Guide.
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#22 Depression, Part 1
In this episode we begin to look at those problems that are not chosen voluntarily but are unwelcome visitors. They include depression, anxiety and dissociation, and this is part one of our discussion of depression. We hope you enjoy it, and, at last, we are asking for comments. Please!
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#21 Pride, Guilt, Shame: The Why, How, and What to Do
This time we tackle the special emotions that are products of the conscience and the internalized values, attitudes, ideals, and prohibitions that underlie our judgments. This important chapter (17) tells how these emotions are different and what therapists can do to help.
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#20 The Role of Thoughts and How to Work With Them
In this episode we explore what some call automatic thoughts and others call free associations, and how to work with them. In parallel with Chapter 18 in the textbook we look at the purpose they serve and how to work with them. And we finally ask listeners to comment! Please!
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#19: Handling Emotions in Therapy
Companion to Chapter 16, this podcast looks at how emotions can mean different things and how to work with them in your sessions.
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#18 Addictions
All about addiction, what it is, why it happens, and how to help individuals and their families deal with the devastating effects of the compulsion to use mood altering chemicals and other compulsive behaviors. This is one of Dr. Smith's specialties. Follows Chapter 15 in the book.
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#17 Behavior Patterns That Avoid Feeling, Continued
This episode covers "hidden agendas," "guilty quests," and avoiding painful feelings by avoiding experiences altogether. Each of these behavioral patterns can lead to real suffering and loss, and working with them is an important aspect of our work as therapists.
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#16 Catalog of Pathologies: Behavior to Avoid Feeling
This is the first of our final series describing all the problems you are likely to encounter that psychotherapy can address. In this companion to the first half of Chapter 14, we look at voluntary avoidance, nonverbal schemas, reenactment and acting out. With each type of problem, we discuss…
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#15 Adjustments to make therapy fit with your cliient
This is the last of the "how to" chapters and covers issues like how much to talk, how to work with different attachment styles and how to decide about homework. The next chapter begins the final section on what different kinds of problems you will encounter as a therapist and how to work with them.
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#14 The inner child vs. transference, an important episode
Why Dr. Smith has traded the concept of transference for that of the inner child, and how to work with this alternative approach. Accompanies Chapter 12 in Psychotherapy: A Practical Guide
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#13 The Therapeutic Relationship
We explore the therapeutic relationship and how best to manage it, corresponding to Chapter 11 in the book, Psychotherapy: A Practical Guide.
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#12 How to Guide Therapy Sessions, Part 2
We continue with a look at the cycles and phases of therapy and how some change processes take place over a longer time course than others, (before moving on to the next episode on the therapeutic relationship).
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#11 How to Guide Therapy Sessions, Part 1
In this episode, we discuss how to begin sessions, how to follow the flow, when to intervene, and when not to in a generic form of psychotherapy adaptable to any style or orientation.
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#10 How to Conduct the First Session of Talk Therapy
This episode is the beginning of part II, focusing on what therapists actually do, and how to go about it. The companion chapter of the book presents ideas and principles regarding the first session. We use an approach that is generic and adaptable to any kind of talk therapy.
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#9 A Clinician's Primer on Psychological Development
In this episode, corresponding to Chapter 8 in Psychotherapy: A Practical Guide, we give therapists a concise guide to those developmental periods and steps where problems are most likely to affect clients in their adult lives and where understanding has an important role in helping clinicians…
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#8 Motivation's Role in Therapy
Motivation from within and without is a very important factor affecting every therapy. In this episode, a companion to Chapter 7 in Psychotherapy: A Practical Guide, we explore all the ins and outs of this critical factor.
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#7 How Relationship Brings Healing
Paired to chapter 6 in Psychotherapy: A Practical Guide, we delve into just how connection leads to mindfulness and mindfulness leads to the healing of painful emotions, especially from loss, trauma, and neglect. See Dr. Smith's website www.howtherapyworks.com and tell us about your experiences.
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#6 How Affects are Healed
In this episode, we explore recent neurophysiology about how painful affects can be "detoxified," or healed, to the point where they are no longer threatening and no longer trigger avoidance. In particular, we look at how exposure therapy works and the recently researched mechanism of...
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#5 Focus on Dysfunctional Patterns, Part 2
In this fifth episode, Part 2, we build a catalog of all the different types of dysfunctional patterns encountered in a psychotherapy practice. Having a matrix with just so many possibilities makes it easier to clarify just what kind of problem you are dealing with now. This is part 2 of two that...
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#4 Focus on Dysfunctional Patterns, Part 1
In this fourth episode, we explore details that are true of all dysfunctional patterns, then we turn to a catalog of all the different types that are encountered in a psychotherapy practice. This is part 1 of two that relate to Chapter 4 in the book.
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Bonus Podcast: Start Here to be a Better Therapist
To whet your appetite for an efficient new way to improve your therapy skills, regardless of orientation, we are offering this way to guide your sessions by cycling through just four questions. Enjoy! And if you want more, the same content is available with slides on Youtube on my channel…
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Episode 1: Why Humans Have Problems
Welcome to our Podcast, How Therapy Works, a nondenominational guide to psychotherapy. In this first episode, Amelie Southwood asks questions and Jeffery Smith, MD shares a new way to think about psychotherapy. We begin by focusing on the problems clients bring to therapy using a framework common...
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#2 The Affect Avoidance Model
Our second episode highlights the Affect Avoidance Model, a universal and nondenominational way to look at the problems treatable with psychotherapy. Key Points The affect avoidance model views any psychological dysfunction that can be addressed through psychotherapy as the result of the mind’s...
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#3 About Patterns of Avoidance
This Episode homes in the emotions that trigger maladaptive patterns. Key Points Avoidance patterns are shaped more by psychological development at the time they are “invented” than by the nature of the affect being avoided. Strategies for distancing affects are products of the nonconscious…
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A non-denominational guide to psychotherapy for new and experienced therapists based on the book, Psychotherapy: A Practical Guide by Jeffery Smith MD, Joined here by Amelie Southwood LMHC. Be sure to see more about this new approach to training at http://www.howtherapyworks.com.
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