Category: <span>Mental Health</span>

Life Put on Hold

I work in CBT modality for many years. I love cognitive-behavioral therapy because it allows me to apply structured approach to my client’s problems. Sensations, feelings, cognitions, behavior – these are the domains I analyse when I have requests to “make things the  way they were”. To these domains I add another one – the life “around” the client (their financial circumstances, job, housing, people that are in contact with them). This approach helps me to help my clients to become their own therapists. Read more

Controlled act of Psychotherapy

Introduction

The Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991 (RHPA), the governing legislation for regulated health professionals in Ontario, identifies 14 “controlled acts,” which may only be performed by regulated health professionals authorized to do so.  Controlled acts are restricted because of the risk of harm associated with their performance by unqualified individuals. Read more

Memory and Goals

What Are Goals?
The Concise Oxford English Dictionary (1999) defines a goal as “the object of a person’s ambition or effort; a destination; an aim” (p. 505).
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Changing the negative culture at job place

How can I change the negative culture my boss creates on my team?
KYLE COUCH AND DANIEL LUBLIN
Special to The Globe and Mail, Published Sunday, Mar. 13, 2016
THE QUESTION
I am part of a sales team. My new boss seems to use scare tactics, and threatens to fire us all if the sales numbers aren’t great.
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