Songs in the Key of Grief: Loss & Longing During Adolescence

April 8, 2014 by  
Filed under Grief & Loss

As therapists, we immerse ourselves in the words that our patients summon in an effort to describe and depict their concerns and dilemmas. I am listening to those words with particular care when families are in the midst of a developmental transition, because that is when they tend to be most emotionally thin-skinned, and, as […]

Playing With Fear: Treating Phobias in Children with Autism

May 31, 2013 by  
Filed under Psychotherapy

Here is an example of a method for treating phobias in children with Autism or other Developmental Disabilities (DDs), using the approach we developed, Replays, (e.g. Levine and Chedd, 2007), or Affective Behavioral Play Therapy (ABPT) as we call it for professional consumption.  In this approach, as in traditional paradigms for treating phobias, we use […]