Michael S. Scheeringa M.D.

Does Psychotherapy With CBT Involve Homework?

Eight steps to good in vivo exposures for PTSD using structure and a systematic plan.

Eight steps to good in vivo exposures for PTSD using structure and a systematic plan.

Exposure Therapy for PTSD: The Path Through Avoidance

Is exposure therapy the best treatment for PTSD?

Is exposure therapy the best treatment for PTSD?

When Is One Psychotherapy Better Than Another?

The tension between fidelity and flexibility: Is it manualized protocols or therapists that need to be flexible?

The tension between fidelity and flexibility: Is it manualized protocols or therapists that need to be flexible?

What Does a Good Therapist Do Every Day?

On the importance of structure in psychotherapy. How can you tell if your therapist is good?

On the importance of structure in psychotherapy. How can you tell if your therapist is good?

How Can Psychotherapy Help Me Change?

Achieve insight into your unconscious, figure out your life path, sort through life challenges, or symptom reduction: What can you expect from therapy?

Achieve insight into your unconscious, figure out your life path, sort through life challenges, or symptom reduction: What can you expect from therapy?

How Much Improvement Can I Expect from Psychotherapy?

Most, but not all, clients show major improvement. Predicting response based on severity, complexity, motivation, and cognitive capacity is the next step for therapy.

Most, but not all, clients show major improvement. Predicting response based on severity, complexity, motivation, and cognitive capacity is the next step for therapy.

How to Measure Improvement in Psychotherapy: 5 Approaches

Each approach to measure reductions of problems has its pros and cons, but measuring all of them for every patient would be overwhelming. Or would it?

Each approach to measure reductions of problems has its pros and cons, but measuring all of them for every patient would be overwhelming. Or would it?

The Gospels of Private Practice and Resistance to Full CBT

Critics of CBT sermonize their gospels of private practice about why full CBT cannot or should not be done, yet we do it, and our data shows it works.

Critics of CBT sermonize their gospels of private practice about why full CBT cannot or should not be done, yet we do it, and our data shows it works.

Is the Dominance of CBT-Lite Coming to an End?

The half-hearted use of CBT techniques has been the main way CBT is practiced in the community. A few payers are getting serious about trying to change that.

The half-hearted use of CBT techniques has been the main way CBT is practiced in the community. A few payers are getting serious about trying to change that.

The Dark Pool of Psychotherapy

Therapists should be more transparent with caregivers about a child's treatment.

Therapists should be more transparent with caregivers about a child's treatment.