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Whether just for fun or for more serious clinical screening purposes, psychological tests and quizzes can provide independent and objective feedback about how you’re feeling. Our new section includes self-tests for depression, anxiety, ADHD, bipolar disorder, and more. You can even test yourself for ‘internet addiction’ if you really want to! The new section also provides some information about the serious side of psychological screening, including US government guidance on depression screening.

Are you still getting by with paper records of client hours? Make 2006 easier with a simple spreadsheet. Our free PC- and Mac-compatible clinical hours logbooks, used by clinicians to record contact hours with clients and time spent in supervision, have been updated for 2006. New versions are available for calendar year 2006, fiscal year 2006-07, and academic year 2006-07.

Over the last year, I’ve been contacted by practitioners ranging from members of the clergy to clinical psychologists, asking about online supervision. After having so many conversations about online clincial supervision in recent months, I’ve finally created a new section of the site specifically aimed at online supervision and other resources for online training and professional development.

Following our popular articles on creating a backup strategy for your private practice, we review two leading contenders for the external backup drive of choice. Although the LaCie and Maxtor drives we tested were very similar in some respects, important differences in speed and in bundled software mean the two are most appropriate for different groups of users.

As the former Personality Disorders Foundation disappears from the web today, we have arranged with the University of Connecticut to provide a new home for many of the materials collected by the organization — including their extensive personality disorders research bibliographies and an introduction to the impact of personality disorders. The new materials appear in our bibliography section and our section on identifying psychological symptoms.