Reblogged from Kmareka.com: The Susan G. Komen foundation just released a letter stating that they will continue to fund Planned Parenthood. Well, that’s a relief, but only a small one for me. The big thing I worry about in cancer activism is that the corporate influence is pushing us to look too much toward treatment … Continue reading »
3 Credit CEU Course: Know Thyself: Using Archetypes to Understand and Heal Children
When: Monday, March 19, 9 am to 12 noon Where: 390 Pontiac Avenue, Cranston RI (in The Education Room in the rectory of Church of the Ascension) This 3-hour educational seminar is approved for 3 CEU (Continuing Education Units) through the Rhode Island NASW, including 1.0 CE in Cross-Cultural Practice. Course Description This seminar will … Continue reading »
Education Week: What Works in School Turnarounds?
Reblogged from Class[room]-Conscious: Published Online: January 17, 2012 Published in Print: January 18, 2012, as What Really Works in Turning Schools Around? By Alan M. Blankstein and Pedro Noguera An important feature of the Obama administration’s Race to the Top initiative is the call to turn around failing schools. The … Continue reading »
Studies of the Archetypes in Children: The Warrior
Oh, the warriors within us! Longfellow said it eloquently: ”If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s … suffering enough to disarm all hostility.” Indeed. And yet, we do find many things to argue about. Usually it’s not so much about the subject as it is about someone being … Continue reading »
Studies of the Archetypes in Young Children: The Innocent
We all start out as innocents — sentient little beings wondering at the world in all its intricate and magnificent glory. The innocent is the child amazed at studying a flower or hearing a new kind of music, or in the case of the baby above, ripping paper. This to him is amazing and hysterically … Continue reading »
Is Positive Thinking a Bunch of Hooey?
I will definitely need to read Barbara Ehrenreich’s newest book. Not only is she one of my favorite political writers, but now she is delving into cultural criticism related to the mental health field’s relentless pursuit of “positive thinking.” Newsweek’s Julia Baird provides a short review: [...] In her new book, Bright-Sided: How Relentless Promotion … Continue reading »
Talking Less to Save Your Marriage
This headline in MSN jumped out at me — “How To Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About it” — because I recently talked with a couple about needing to talk to each other less. That’s right — to make their relationship work better, talk less. The corollary for their situation was: do more. Talk less, … Continue reading »
How to Reduce Your Risk of Divorce
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and reading about marriage and family lately, due to my practicing more couples therapy and wanting to beef up my knowledge and technique, as well as just general curiosity about what makes a marriage or a family into something enriching and rewarding. I set out googling and goodsearching … Continue reading »
Develop Your Brain and Your Heart with Fiction
Here’s some news I feel like I’ve always known intuitively: writing fiction fine-tunes the brain. For more than two thousand years people have insisted that reading fiction is good for you. Aristotle claimed that poetry—he meant the epics of Homer and the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, which we would now call fiction—is a … Continue reading »
In Treating Reactive Attachment Disorder, Closeness Fosters Growth
Over the years I have treated many children with reactive attachment issues and, while sometimes heartbreaking, there is also a great deal of joy in the work. Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) is a cluster of behavioral and emotional issues that are believed to relate to a child’s lack of appropriate early bonding with a primary … Continue reading »
