Just a quick plug for an informational session (.pdf flyer) on October 26th for students considering applying to the Family Therapy Training Program at the University of Rochester Medical Center. We offer and M.S. degree in Marriage and Family Therapy and a post-degree certificate to degreed professional wishing to re-specialize in family therapy.
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Archive | October, 2007
Moving N.Y. Times Op-Ed by Roger Cohen
October 15, 2007
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Roger Cohen has written a moving Op-Ed piece in which he describes the way in which a recent suicide in the Phoenix airport transported him back to his own mother’s decades long battle with suicidal thoughts and attempts.
Read moreNY Times: Short but Troubled Life Ended in Shooting and Suicide
October 12, 2007
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This NYT article about 14 year-old boy who died on Wednesday after critically wounding a teacher and classmates, is a case study in risk for adolescent suicide. Abuse/neglect history, legal trouble, access to weapons, social misfit, recent disciplinary action at school. The temporal proximity of his older brother’s arrest is also striking…again pointing to [...]
Read moreIrreverant documentation post
October 12, 2007
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I came across this irreverent, but pretty informative post by the Last Psychiatrist about documentation for patients with suicidal thoughts or behavior. He is writing from the perspective of an acute services physician, but much of what he says applies across settings. Note that the post has ads embedded in it. Besides being annoying, the [...]
Read moreWarning: Non-family Tx may be hazardous to your (family’s) health
October 12, 2007
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A clever article in the September 2007 issue of the Journal of Family Psychology by Jose Szapocznik and Guillermo Prado suggests that “psychosocial treatments with vulnerable populations have the potential to produce negative side effects on families.” The authors reported unexpected findings from three separate studies that compared the efficacy of a family and non-family [...]
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