clinical social work association

This interesting article outlines a positive approach to children in pain who have cognitive impairments.  Looking at mild, moderate and severe impairments and its effect on the expression of pain.  Also included are resources for the measurement of pain in this effected population.

http://www.cpa.ca/docs/File/Publications/FactSheets/PsychologyWorksFactSheet_
PainInChildrenWithCognitiveImpairments.pdf

Have you got 10 minutes to watch, not read, how to encourage your clients to be more effectively motivated in their daily lives?  This short piece visually presents recent research on how it all really works.  Watch on!

http://www.finerminds.com/career-entrepreneurship/career-work-motivation

Group therapy strains the boundaries of confidentiality exponentially to the number of people in the room.  How to impress on the group as a whole and individually the need for beneficence in keep separate what has been shared?  This short article raises some interesting ideas.

http://nationalpsychologist.com/2014/07/can-confidentiality-be-maintained-in-group-therapy/102566.html

This article is geared towards corporations and their employees, however the insights regarding toxic workers can apply to counseling practices as well.  Our business models demand collaboration and cooperation to function with the limited resources available to our organizations.  Mix in a toxic employee and organizational culture can be destroyed in no time.  Take a look.

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/corporate-disaster-zones-coping-hurricane-employees/