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What are the 10 Roles of Social Workers

Social Work Haven

Counsellor : They provide counselling and emotional support to individuals and families facing a wide range of challenges, including mental health issues, addiction, and crisis situations. You may also provide direct services, such as counselling or case management, to clients or their families.

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Psychologist vs Social Worker: The Differences You Need to Know

Social Work Haven

Common tasks that psychologists do include administering tests and assessments, conducting therapy sessions, developing treatment plans, researching and studying behavior, evaluating mental health programs and providing consultation services. Clinical social workers provide direct counseling to individuals, families, or groups.

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Parenting Teens – Accept and manage your role as consultant.

Gary Direnfeld

The teen increasingly moves from seeing and accepting the patent as boss to seeing them more and more as a consultant. As a consultant, the teen takes the expectations of the parent under advisement and then knowing or unknowingly to the parent, makes their own decisions. www.garydirenfeld.com – to build your successful practice.

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Before Sending Your Kid to Counseling….

Gary Direnfeld

While I am pleased so many parents value counseling and want it for their kids, do know that it is not always helpful and indeed, can be harmful. Many kids interpret counseling as them having done something bad for which they must now talk to someone. Counseling in those situations won’t affect the cause.

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Counseling and Change

Gary Direnfeld

That is the objective of all counseling whether it is how one thinks, feels or behaves. Check out all my services and then call me if you need help with a personal issue, mental health concern, child behavior or relationship, divorce or separation issue or even help growing your practice. Doing something different.

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Couple Counseling? Maybe in time….

Gary Direnfeld

I recently declined two requests for couple counseling. Couple counseling can be an intense setting where issues are laid bare. Interestingly, in both cases the callers were prepared to continue with couple counseling despite their disclosures of untoward behavior. I suggested individual counseling in both cases.

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When Your Partner Sits Around Playing Video Games and You’re Carrying the Family

Gary Direnfeld

This is where counseling comes in as well as a good consultation from a family law lawyer. Check out all my services and then call me if you need help with a personal issue, mental health concern, child behavior or relationship, divorce or separation issue or even help growing your practice. You need this team.