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Well-Being Support for Kids and Parents How to give your kid a special birthday while stuck at home (Today’s Parent) Working from home with kids feels unsustainable. Here’s how to ease the burden. (Vox.com) Mental Health and Well-Being Resources (TDSB: Toronto District School Board) Helping Kids in Changing Times (TDSB: Toronto District School Board) Kids Help Phone provides a 24/7 e-mental health service. Talking to children about COVID-19 and its impact (CAMH: The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health) Talking to your anxious child about COVID-19 (CMHO: Children’s Mental Health Ontario) Coping with stress during the COVID-19…
This global crisis has certainly taken all of us aback. It has caused us to rethink a lot of things that we’ve been doing to support our clients and take care of ourselves. How We Are Supporting Our Community We’re thinking a lot about our member community and we hope you’re staying safe and healthy. As a member services organization operating virtually, we are able to remain open. You can still access all member benefits. Our courses and certification programs are also still running. All career professionals are warmly invited…
By Skye Berry-Burke. The other day, while visiting my child’s pediatrician, I saw an article about the “8 Keys of Excellence” for making great kids greater. Five of these “keys” were immediately etched in my mind and I continued to think about how these principles for achieving excellence apply to all of us – young and old, career pros and our clients. As a new school year approaches, many people – whether they are students or not – view this time as an opportunity to focus on professional and personal…
By Lysa Appleton. “Defer no time; delays have dangerous ends”. (William Shakespeare) Prioritizing is one of the most difficult aspects of time management. It can be challenging to know which things are most important and what to do first. How you prioritize is really based on your needs, values, expectations, and external demands; and, it is an essential task if you want to leverage your time to your advantage. The Glass Jar To illustrate this, let me share the popular story of The Glass Jar; a time management metaphor that uses…
By Richard Hamilton. Unemployment can have a profoundly adverse impact on our client’s self-esteem and motivation. Clients come to us with some feeling of failure, fully focused on their short comings rather than their strengths; we need to move that self-doubt out of the way. By exploring our client’s interests and related successes, we can help reconstruct self-esteem and activate motivation. You may be thinking, “Who has the time to explore our client’s lives, uncovering hidden interests and mining for strengths?”. Our instinct is to move to action, resume writing,…
By Richard Hamilton. Amongst the many innovations that the founders of Solution- Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) have introduced to the world of counselling is the exploration of pre-session changes. These changes can lead to a treasure trove of useful motivational strategies, if you know how to tap into them. Research has shown that 40% of clients have made some improvement to their problem prior to their first session (deShazer and Berg), however clients will not reveal these improvements unless asked; that’s a lot of valuable information hidden away. Accessing this information…