Practical Practice

September 8th, 2024

Niche specialization: Is finding your niche important?

By Ellen Anderson, Ph.D

Is it necessary for independent practitioners to have an area of specialty practice? A quick review of popular sites such as the Psychology Today Therapist Directory gives the...

July 11th, 2024

Disparities between mental, medical use reimbursements highlighted

By Beth Negus Viveiros

RTI International conducts research
A new study highlights the disparity in out-of-network use and...

March 29th, 2024

Psychologists and poets

By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.

Apri is National Poetry Month, and psychologists everywhere are writing poetry.
With Wordsworth they are recollecting intense emotion in tranquility
and helping...

January 5th, 2024

The overscheduled practitioner

By Ellen Anderson, Ph.D

“People don’t change.” This was relayed to me within my first week on the job by a psychologist, 30 years older than myself. As a researcher, he had some basis for this...

September 30th, 2023

The pros and cons of accepting health insurance

By Ellen Anderson, Ph.D

Solo practitioners face challenges
Have you considered joining or leaving an insurance panel? More...

June 27th, 2022

Psychologist focuses on tackling climate change

By Catherine Robertson Souter

Most Americans agree that climate change is happening. We are facing the preliminary droughts, forest fires, flooding and storms that are likely to continue to increase in...

June 3rd, 2022

How can psychologists find their niche?

By Catherine Robertson Souter

The American Psychological Association has 53 divisions representing various subfields of psychology yet...

February 3rd, 2022

Is it a psychologist’s job to address false beliefs?

By Catherine Robertson Souter

With the massive amount of disinformation floating around, from political to medical, most therapists...

March 8th, 2021

Equity, diversity issues should be at forefront of psychologists’ work

By Catherine Robertson Souter

There may be some positive to come out of the tumult. In a year when America was forced to slow down and, for many of us, begin to question what really matters, the...

July 16th, 2020

Bookmarking a life

By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.

When I was a young psychologist just starting my second job, someone gave me an office and a title that were bigger than I needed, and like hand-me-down clothes, both gave me...