Is there a part of you that is seeking more balance in your life? Would you like to experience more joy? If yes, you may want to consider meditation… And if you’ve never done it, that’s fine 🙂 As Sharon Salzberg states in her book “Real Happiness,” “if you can breathe, you can meditate.” Meditation […]
Continuing Education: Optional or Obligatory?
Do you find the whole continuing education maze a bit confusing? Are you wondering whether you need to need to fulfill continuing education requirements to maintain your LMSW or LCSW license? Figuring out your continuing education (CE) requirements can be a bit puzzling, particularly because the answer varies according to your jurisdiction. Association of Social […]
Children’s Growth Through Art
Did you know there is a huge connection between the development of a child’s artistic abilities and his/her cognitive development? In fact, a child’s art work is indicative of his/her developing abilities in motor skills, perception, language, symbol formation, sensory awareness and spatial orientation (Malchiodi, 1998). As you may remember from Art Therapy and Social […]
Understanding: A Privilege or a Right?
Is the ability to understand to public documents a privilege or a right? As Sandra Fisher-Martins eloquently argues in the below TED talk, being able to understand public financial, legal and medical documents is not only everyone’s right but a daily necessity. The problem is that the vast majority of public documents are written in […]
Art Therapy and Social Work
Have you wondered how to incorporate art therapy in a session with a client? I took a [post] graduate class on the use of art therapy within a social work framework. Art therapy is something that I wanted to learn for a variety of reasons. Art is something that I hadve always enjoyed. It is […]
