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Celebrate Your Graduate—Save 30% Off Select Books!

Social Work Blog

Drawing on his 40+ years of meditation practice, experience as a Vietnam veteran, and decades of psychotherapy work with his clients, Ray Scurfield demonstrates how to introduce meditation into treatment for clients with posttraumatic stress disorder or everyday stress.

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19 Essential Social Work Practice Skills You Should Work on Refining Now

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Communication Skills Social workers must be able to effectively communicate in various settings with diverse groups of people. Clinician – this involves providing direct clinical services such as counseling, psychotherapy and crisis intervention. What are the challenges of social work practice?

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doctors should be shamans and perhaps they are

Clinical Philosophy

and 'complementary' medicine I want now to elaborate the above idea of emotional experience taking its form from bodily experience by reference to a diverse set of cases. Marguerite Sechehaye 1951 Symbolic realisation: a new method in psychotherapy. children, psychotics, occultists. In his Structural Anthropology vol 1.

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what's love got to do with it?

Clinical Philosophy

In a paper on whether psychotherapy is a form of prostitution, philosopher Rupert Read suggests that therapy is to genuine loving friendship (‘agape’) as prostitution is to erotic love (‘eros’). Is psychotherapy, too, not a more subtle selling of such a fantasy? Psychotherapy - a form of prostitution? John Ryan Haule.