Kenneth S. Pope

Recovered memories of abuse : assessment, therapy, forensics

Sexual Abuse, Delayed Memories and Therapy - an Introduction Science, Memory and Trauma - an Introduction Practising Safely and Competently - What Therapists Must Know Clinical Work With People Who Report Recovered Memories Forensic Issues for Therapist and Expert Witnesses Appendices - Clinical and Forensic Work as Questioning - Considering Claims About False Memories Useful Resources - States With Delayed Discovery Laws Sample Informed Consent Form for Forensic Assessment When Recovered Memories Are an Issue Therapists Outline for Frequent Review of Treatment and Treatment Plan for a Patient When Recovered Memories Are an Issue Outline of Topics for Forensics Preparation Therapists Outline for Review Prior to Deposition and Cross-Examination Cross-Examination Questions for Therapists Who Testify About Recovered Memories of Abuse.

A practical approach to boundaries in psychotherapy: making decisions, bypassing blunders, and mending fences

Nonsexual boundary crossings can enrich psychotherapy, serve the treatment plan, and strengthen the therapist-client working relationship. They also can undermine the therapy, disrupt the therapist-patient alliance, and cause harm to clients. Building on T. G. Gutheil and G. O. Gabbards (1993) conceptualization of boundary crossings and boundary violations, this article discusses and illustrates grounding boundary decisions in a sound approach to ethics. We provides nine useful steps in deciding whether to cross a boundary, describe common cognitive errors in boundary decision making, and offer nine helpful steps to take when a boundary crossing has negative effects.

Therapist Responses to Recovered and Never-forgotten Memories of Child Sex Abuse A National Survey of Licensed Psychologists

In a national survey of 300 female and 300 male licensed psychologists, participants were presented with vignettes in which a 14-year-old girl told a therapist that her father had sexually abused her for a year at a specific age (either 2 or 8), that she either had or had not forgotten the abuse from the time of its occurrence until the current year, and that the therapist is the first one that she had told about the abuse. Participants provided information about the degree to which they found the allegations credible and the steps that they found important in responding to the allegations. The age at which the alleged abuse occurred and the therapists age produced significant effects on evaluations of credibility, as did an interaction of therapists sex and theoretical orientation. There was no difference in evaluations of credibility between male and female psychoanalytically oriented therapists; among nonpsychoanalytically oriented therapists, female respondents were more likely than male respondents to find the claim credible.

The experience of forgetting" childhood abuse: A national survey of psychologists": Correction.

A national sample of psychologists were asked whether they had been abused as children and, if so, whether they had ever forgotten some or all of the abuse. Almost a quarter of the sample (23.9%) reported childhood abuse, and of those, approximately 40% reported a period of forgetting some or all of the abuse. The major findings were that (a) both sexual and nonsexual abuse were subject to periods of forgetting; (b) the most frequently reported factor related to recall was being in therapy; (c) approximately one half of those who reported forgetting also reported corroboration of the abuse; and (d) reported forgetting was not related to gender or age of the respondent but was related to severity of the abuse.

Watch Your Step: The New York Times, Breaching Confidentiality, and 12-Step Programs

Twelve-step programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous invite members to trust that what is said in meetings remains confidential. However, the New York Times, a prominent and influential newspaper, has breached that confidentiality, offering both a precedent and a rationale to other media including newspapers, cable news programs, internet news blogs, and so on. This prominent breach may influence not only other news media but also the trust that 12-step members have in their programs.

Questions I Wish I Had Asked Before I Started in Practice

How to Survive and Thrive as a Therapist: Information, Ideas, and Resources for Psychologists in Practice “presents in a concise format information, ideas, and resources for the practicalities of practice” (p. xi). Kenneth S. Pope and Melba J. T. Vasquez, the authors, have recognized that the greatest difficulty in starting any task is to know how to begin. Whether starting a practice or changing an established practice requires knowing ones self and accepting circumstances and the therapist, as they exist today. Pope and Vasquez gently and successfully lead the readers through a series of questions to help therapists find a comfortable fit for their goals in the changing market for psychological services.