Albanian-born, Italian-educated, American clinical psychologist and independent scholar.
The Commission on Accreditation (CoA) of the American Psychological Association (APA) released a memo a few weeks ago to inform clinical psychology programs of their decision “to immediately and temporarily suspend evaluation of programs for compliance with several specific accreditation standards. The suspended standards are those related to faculty and student program actions in the […]
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Can a conversation be a crime? That’s the question at the heart of Chiles v. Salazar, a case the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear on March 10. Kaley Chiles, a counselor in Colorado, argues that state law unconstitutionally restricts what she can say in therapy sessions about sexual orientation and gender identity. The law […]
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In the darkness of 2020, the memory that comes up the most was supervising the case of a severely ill young woman who went by the “they/them” pronouns. Understanding the illness and formulating a coherent treatment plan—and, in the process, helping the counselor-in-training to develop clinical thinking—was blocked by the rage of students whose reaction […]
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