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CONTENTS
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Marriage and Family Therapists Win Legal Battle Over Right to Diagnose
Departments
02 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE
06 NOTEWORTHY: 2017 Preliminary Slate // Three Questions // Q&A // Data Note
Also in this issue PERSPECTIVES
32 Families and Fair Inheritance Decisions
Emily Jordan, MA Marlene Stum, PhD
35 AAMFT Hosts Meeting with China Association of Social Workers
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36 From Bipolar to Whypolar: Applying Systems-oriented Therapy to Treating Bipolar Disorder
Alev Ates-Barlas, MS
Privacy is Dying, and It May Not Be Missed
Today’s therapy students are taught that confidentiality is a cornerstone of effective therapy, but do clients still care about privacy? And if not, how does this impact our ethical obligations as therapists?
Benjamin E. Caldwell, PsyD
MARCH / APRIL 2017
VOLUME 16, NO.2
The Millennial Mindset: How to Build a Therapeutic
Dialogue
Millennials are seeking therapy to face challenges that are different than those of previous generations. As their numbers grow in the clinical population, it is helpful to be aware
of some of the common presenting issues that bring this generation to therapy and the socio-economic context in which they live.
Michelle Piper, MS
Views from a Millennial Therapist
Millennials training in couple and family therapy are developing their skills during a time of changing family landscapes, shifting
social norms around gender and sexuality, and impending questions surrounding the use of technology in mental healthcare. How will today’s
therapists in training navigate this brave and rapidly-changing new world?
Sarah Epstein
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