Instructors nor colleagues ever spoke to me . . . in a classroom, as a supervisor, one on one, or even in a text about therapists' mishaps and what to do about them. No one ever spoke about them being opportunities for learning and growth.
Instead, when errors were made, I was taught that they {...}
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Archives for August 2010
When Mental Health Professionals Mock Their Clients
"Fat . . . Borderline . . . Retard . . . ."
It is always shocking to me how easy it is for medical and mental health professionals to reduce their clients to less-than-desirable and less-than-accurate one dimensional labels behind closed doors.
I've heard excuses that range from minimizing {...}
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Have You Had Your Dose Of Disruption Today?
In 1977, Ilya Prigogine was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on "dissipative structures." Prigogine contends that because dissipative structures are disturbed i.e. shaken up by definition, they are able to change and evolve. On the other hand, those structures that are too well {...}
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Nuggets From Marketing For The Mental Health Professional
My e-friend, David P. Diana, was kind enough to send a copy of his new book to me. I've only read one hundred pages into Marketing for the Mental Health Professional but already I can tell you that it is an excellent addition to your practice-building library.
As David notes in the preface, this {...}
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