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14 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Therapy Sessions | Psychologist Dr. Hayden Finch

14 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Therapy Sessions

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So you’ve gone through all the steps of getting a therapist — it wasn’t easy, but you did it! Congratulations! Now you want to make sure you get the most out of your therapy sessions. In today’s post, I’ll tell you what to do before each therapy session, what to do during therapy sessions, what to do after therapy sessions, and what to do between your therapy sessions to make sure you’re squeezing every ounce of juice out of your therapy that you can. Plus, I put together a worksheet to help you organize it all and maximize your therapy sessions.

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Schizophrenia: 3-Hour Course

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Schizophrenia: Understanding & Treating Schizophrenia: Understanding & Treating is a 3-hour online continuing education (CE) course that provides clinicians with practical guidance in understanding and treating schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a complex condition that is poorly understood by the general public and by many mental health clinicians, who receive little training on the condition. It’s important to

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Schizophrenia vs. Schizoaffective Disorder vs. Bipolar Disorder: What’s the Difference?

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I realize this is controversial, but “Schizophrenia,” “Schizoaffective Disorder,” and “Bipolar Disorder” are essentially useless terms.  As I described in a recent post, there are far more differences within our diagnostic categories (e.g., Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, etc.) than between them, and there is no pattern of symptoms that is unique to these conditions

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Why Every Doctor Gives You A Different Mental Health Diagnosis

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It’s so frustrating when one of your doctors says you have Schizoaffective Disorder (or Social Anxiety Disorder), while another says it’s Bipolar Disorder (or Generalized Anxiety Disorder).  And then you switch providers and they think it’s Schizophrenia (or OCD).  What’s the freakin’ deal?  They have an incredible amount of education and experience.  Why can’t they

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What’s it like to be bipolar? An expert answered all our questions about this mood disorder

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Recently, I had the privilege of working with online magazine Hello Giggle to answer questions about bipolar disorder, including what it’s like to live with that condition.  I answered all their questions, including What is bipolar disorder? What are the different types of bipolar disorder? What is the difference between calling it “bipolar disorder” or

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Bipolar Disorder versus “Bipolar”? Part III: Four Important Questions

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By HAYDEN FINCH, PhD In my first post in this series, I confessed something has really been bothering me – the misuse of the word “bipolar” over the last decade.  In that post, we chatted about what a manic episode really is, by definition.  And then in my second post, we talked about depressive episodes

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Bipolar Disorder versus “Bipolar”? Part II: Depressive Symptoms

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By HAYDEN FINCH, PhD In my last post, we started chatting about the difference between Bipolar Disorder and being “bipolar.”  And we reviewed some of the diagnostic criteria for being manic.  Today, let’s continue our discussion by talking about the other “pole,” the depressive side of the illness. Diagnostic Criteria: Depressive Episode A major depressive

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