What Burns You Out?
In the previous post, I talked about therapists being pushed to the point of exhaustion. A few weeks ago I came across a recent study on burn out and job satisfaction affecting client outcomes.
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10 Things I’ve Learned from the Achieving Clinical Excellence (ACE) Conference, 2018.
1. Build a service based on individual’s needs, while employing a non-linear design process.~ Birgit Villa, Norway. (Birgit and her team of practitioners took a 10 hour bus journey from Norway to...
Understanding vs. Remembering: Why It’s Important to Track (and Revisit) What You’ve Learned
We tend to place a premium on understanding and underrate the importance of remembering. We assume that once we comprehend something, we would be able to recall the content. In actual fact, what happens...
To Get Useful Feedback, Seek Contrast: Compare Within the Person’s Experience, Not Between Persons.
Previously, we’ve talked about how to elicit feedback, and how to receive feedback. But the reality is, in clinical practice, you know how hard it is to elicit useful feedback. Asking a client what...
Do Not Become Attached to The Outcome
“We cannot be attached to outcome, says Zen Roshi Joan Halifax. Similarly, the Stoics point out that we do not have control of outcomes, but only the process.” Here are two scenarios to think through the...
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