Winter 2008
Feeling Stressed? You’re Not Alone!
Stress in Dallas and Across the United States
Tim F. Branaman, PhD, ABPP

The American Psychological Association recently released its annual nationwide survey of the perception of stress by Americans in eight major metropolitan areas across the United States. The finding that nearly half the surveyed population reported experiencing increased stress during the past year was consistent with the deterioration of the economy, which has recently risen to the level of a national crisis accompanied by regional natural disasters, such as hurricane devastation, as well.

Individuals in the Dallas, Texas portion of the study reported about the same experience with stress as did the average individual in other areas of the United States. However, more Dallas individuals reported coping better with stress than elsewhere across the nation (85% vs. 81%, Dallas and National data, respectively).

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Fall 2011
Every Practitioner’s Best Friend: Protocols to protect your sleep – and your license
Michael Flynn, JD, PhD

Mention protocols to most practicing psychologists and watch their eyes glaze over as they conjure images of twenty-five or thirty pages of neatly formatted paragraphs of unfriendly legalese in outline form, subparagraph following subparagraph. We tend to associate protocols with the agencies where we labored to earn our licenses and with hospitals where we never felt quite at home. Both descriptions contain some truth, but neither is an accurate picture of protocols.

Every practitioner who has been providing professional services to clients for more than a year or two has a good collection of protocols – and generally sound protocols, at that. Protocols are simply the practice habits that a psychologist has developed, over the years, dealing with the professional, clinical, and practical demands of operating an office.

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