The Minimalist Guide to Creating a Therapist Website Are you a social worker or mental health professional who would like to set up your own wordpress blog? If yes, you are likely to find the WordPress Video course created by Cathy Hanville, LCSW, very helpful. Cathy is a licensed clinical social worker who has a clinical […]
Supervision in Social Work: A Book Review
Are you looking for a good resource to prepare you to take on the role of social work supervisor? Or perhaps you are an educator looking for an excellent book about supervision to use in your advanced practice class? If yes, Supervision in Social Work, Fifth Edition, by Alfred Kadushin and Daniel Harkness may be the […]
Social Worker Living Successfully with Dissociative Identity Disorder
I’m Here by Nancy-Lee Mauger You Can Have Dissociative Identity Disorder and Thrive ! Are you shocked to hear that a mental health professional with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is able to lead a productive life? You need not be. Many individuals with DID live healthy and fulfilling lives (ISSTD, n.d.). However, as a result of […]
Parts Work & Parts Psychology: A Guide to Trauma-Based Treatment
Parts work and parts psychology is an innovative trauma treatment that heals painful memories by working with subpersonalities (parts). Dr. Jay Noricks explains how parts psychology differs from IFS, the 4-step protocol (define problem, find the part, elicit memories, neutralize pain), treating DID clients, and why visualization, not talk therapy, neutralizes trauma memories. Extremely efficient: average 20 sessions.
Battered Women’s Protective Strategies – Book Review
Do you work with women who are physically abused and wonder how best to help them? Contrary to public opinion and the views of many domestic violence agencies, leaving the batterer is not necessarily the only or best solution available to intimate violence survivors. Sherry Hamby proposes in her book: Battered Women’s Protective Strategies, an […]
