Would you like to participate in a twitter chat about mental health? A twitter chat = a real-time chat where you get to talk with others about topics of interest to you via twitter by using tweets that include a predefined hashtag to link those tweets together in a virtual conversation. And if you’ve never […]
Unlearning with Jack Uldrich
Have you heard about the concept of unlearning? According to Jack Uldrich, unlearning is a crucial skill to develop as part of the process of acquiring knowledge because some types of learning cannot occur until some unlearning has first taken place. In Jack’s latest book, Higher Unlearning: 39 Post-Requisite Lessons for Achieving a Successful Future […]
Social Work Abroad
You may think that social work in the United States and the United Kingdom is identical but actually that’s not true…To get a glimpse of what are some of the similarities and differences about social work, I had the pleasure of interviewing cb who is a social worker in the U.K. cb is also an […]
10 Sources for Evidence-Based Practice
Some of you may be wondering what is evidence-based practice… In a nutshell, evidence-based practice refers to the type of decision-making process in which the clinician uses the best evidence available for treatment, in consultation with the client, to decide upon the treatment option that best suits the client. In this manner, the practitioner is […]
Self-Care for Mental Health Professionals
Hi Everyone! Just a quick note to say that I have a guest post up at Tamara Suttle’s Private Practice from the Inside Out website, about the occupational hazards about getting burned out as a mental health professional and some things that you can do in the self-care realm so as to avoid this. I […]