On Monday, I reminded you that when considering ways to keep in touch with your clients, it's critical that you consider the legal and ethical implications. Assuming you've taken those into consideration, believe that it is in your client's best interest for you to keep in touch, and have his or {...}
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Continuous Learning
Mistakes Happen . . . What’s A Therapist To Do?
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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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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What They’re Saying . . . About 2009 Annual Series Of Private Practice from the Inside Out
I just realized that many of you are asking about what's happening in the 2009 Annual Series of Private Practice from the Inside Out and I haven't been very good about letting you know. Here's what they're saying after our last session . . . .
It was really good for me to look at my low confidence {...}
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