Behavior Online - a Meeting Place for Professionals
| Leonard Holmes, Ph.D. http://mentalhealth.about.com |
Behavior Online is a website designed specifically for mental health professionals. Gil Levin is probably best known for organizing the Cape Cod Institute every summer. These week long continuing education courses provide mental health professionals with a break from their work along with training from experts in the field.
Gil has put the same amount of thought into Behavior Online. Here you can interact with experts such as Donald Nathanson - an expert on shame and related emotions, Jeffrey Zeig & Stephen Lankton - experts on Ericksonian therapy, and Francine Shapiro - the founder of EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing). The bulletin board format allows you to consider your words carefully and to receive an equally thought-out reply.
Clinical cases are also discussed, with experts contributing. To read and contribute to the case studies you need to certify that you are a mental health professional. All identifying information has been changed, of course. Where else can you discuss a real client with one of the experts in the field?
There are other sites geared primarily to professionals on the net. PsychWatch.com keeps professionals up-to-date on happenings in the field. Mental Health Net's professional corner also has lots of professional content. Only Behavior Online allows this level of interaction.
Here's a list of the active discussions at Behavior Online:
| General Discussion Forum |
| Shame and Affect Theory (Donald Nathanson) |
| Classical Adlerian Psychotherapy (Henry Stein) |
| Outcome Assessment (Steven Locke and Ellen Dornelas) |
| Organizational Development (Charles Seashore) |
| Whole-Scale™ Change (Kathleen Dannemiller) |
| Creative Arts Therapies International (Martin Perdoux and Cathy Malchiodi) |
| Cognitive Therapy (James Pretzer) |
| Gestalt Therapy (Brian O'Neill) |
| Control-Mastery (Jessica Broitman) |
| Anxiety Disorders (Georg Eifert) |
| Evolutionary Psychology (James Brody) |
| Computing Clinic (Larry Rosen) |
| Psychology of Cyberspace (John Suler) |
| EMDR (Francine Shapiro) |
| Ericksonian Therapy (Jeffrey Zeig and Stephen Lankton) |
| Meditation In Psychotherapy (James Spira) |
| Online Clinical Work (Leonard Holmes) |
| Law, Ethics, and Psychotherapy (William Reid) |
| Solution-Focused Therapy (Scott Miller) |
| Sexual Issues in Clinical Practice (Marty Klein) |
| Behavioral Medicine and Primary Care (Robert Feinstein and Steven Locke) |
| Clinical Case Conference (Jessica Broitman, Vick Kelly, Donald Nathanson, James Pretzer, Johanna Tabin, Ernest Wolf) |
| Leonard Holmes, Ph.D. http://mentalhealth.about.com |
