by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jun 18, 2026 | Evidence Based Practice in Therapy, Mental Health and Psychotherapy Resources in Alabama, Mental Health and Trauma Therapy in Alabama, Therapy Resources for Alabama
Anna Freud’s Impact on Freud’s Biographical Scholarship The systematic efforts to control and sanitize the historical record surrounding Freud have had profound and lasting consequences for our understanding of psychoanalysis and its founder. The work of...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jun 8, 2026 | Alabama Local History, Psychology of Film and TV, Psychology of Media and Culture
Before there was a pink beard, there was a boy with an anger problem and a mother who knew what to do about it. Sebastian Kole grew up in Birmingham, the son of two preachers, raised by a father whose discipline ran close to military. When the anger started...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jun 6, 2026 | Psychology of Film and TV
This article is dedicated to all the millenials that watched Yellowstone with their Dad. A young man sits across from me and tells me he has watched all of Yellowstone four times. He is not a rancher. He has never owned an animal larger than a dog. He works a job...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | May 17, 2026 | Legal Updates for Therapists and Psychologists
In the spring of 2025, the Alabama State Department of Education released the first comprehensive update to the state’s school counseling standards in twenty-two years. The 2025 Comprehensive School Counseling and Guidance Model is a substantial document. It...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | May 17, 2026 | Legal Updates for Therapists and Psychologists
The clinician who has practiced long enough to see a few subpoenas eventually develops a complicated relationship with the word “confidentiality.” We say it constantly. We put it in our informed consent documents. We teach it in supervision. And then,...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | May 17, 2026 | Legal Updates for Therapists and Psychologists, Uncategorized
Alabama Gun Laws are Changing and Therapists Need to Know Families in Alabama who initiate an involuntary commitment petition through their local probate court are almost never told the full legal consequences of what they are about to do. They are told, accurately,...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | May 17, 2026 | Psychology of Conspiracy Theories, Psychology of Politics
In 1930, Freud sat down to explain why people who had every reason to be content kept finding new ways to suffer. The result was Civilization and Its Discontents, a slim book that shaped how the educated West understands its own unhappiness for almost a century. His...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | May 17, 2026 | Legal Updates for Therapists and Psychologists
In April 2024, the Alabama Board of Examiners in Counseling issued a policy statement that has not received the attention it deserves. The statement addresses the question of whether a licensed professional counselor or associate licensed counselor in Alabama may...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | May 17, 2026 | Alabama Local History, Legal Updates for Therapists and Psychologists
In December, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services jointly issued what is now being called the Fourth Temporary Extension, a rulemaking that preserves nearly all of the pandemic-era telemedicine flexibilities for...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | May 17, 2026 | Alabama Local History, Legal Updates for Therapists and Psychologists, Therapy and Crisis Intervention for College Students in Alabama, Trauma Treatment in Alabama, Trauma, Depth Psychology, and Social Work
Governor Ivey signed House Bill 152 into law in April. The bill takes effect October 1, 2026, which means that as of this writing there are roughly four and a half months between the current state of social work education in Alabama and the legal regime that will...
