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 […]
10 More LMSW Exam Practice Questions
Would you like to test out your knowledge on some more LMSW (ASWB) exam questions? Below are another 10 questions that we went over during a review class at my school: 1. The phase of the helping process which leads to subsequent implementation of intervention is: a. exploration and summation b. exploration, assessment and planning […]
Menopause and Pleasure
As you now know from Menopause – Is it the Beginning of the End?, menopause and pleasure can go hand-in-hand: it can be a very positive and exciting time in a woman’s life! According to Dr Northrup, there are 7 critical keys that need to be “unlocked” for a woman to achieve her full pleasure […]
