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Professional Equivalent
The foremost weakness in our present-day mental health industry, besides our overdependence on drugs as the primary source of mental health mediation, is the numbers of paraprofessionals who are...
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This is not a talk show
Therapists, rather than helping their clients tackle the more critical, covert sources of their emotional distress, often treat them for the signs and symptoms they express. Stress, for example, has a...
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Grow A Pear (part one)
In the Grove, a suburb of Holbrook, Massachusetts, at the head of King Road, on the right, there used to be an orchard. The orchard is now hidden within a cluster of damp, moldy ash trees. It has...
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Grow A Pear (part two)
The Professor took long strides, briskly tramping around the orchard, his thin legs and feet bold and confident in his rubber boots, making bearlike impressions in the wet, black earth. Two of my own...
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Grow A Pear (part three)
The Professor was a botanist; a plant scientist. Botany is a broad science, beginning with man’s earliest efforts to identify edible, medicinal and poisonous plants – plants that, simply, can kill or...
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Children with Character
When I was a child, in the early days of the growing phenomenon that eventually became known as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) – before the harsh, punitive medications we now use to...
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A Boy From Honduras
Several years ago I worked with a seven-year-old boy who didn’t speak English. He was from Honduras and he spoke about fifty or sixty words familiar to me – mostly nouns and verbs. The rest of the...
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Climbing the Ladder / A Therapist’s Dilemma
Just like anywhere else in business, the phenomenon of climbing the ladder exists in the mental health industry. Yes, even mental health therapists (and those who work alongside us) routinely choose...
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My Special Education
When my sister was born, she was clearly unusual. Her appearance, her distinctive facial and physical features were a curious, unexplainable phenomenon. I remember thinking, “Where did this baby come...
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Chick-fil-A: Glorifying God circa 2012
Chick-fil-A, an American fast food chain founded by S. Truett Cathy in 1986, used to be best known for peddling chicken sandwiches and waffle fries. Of course, Chick-fil-A’s reputation has recently...
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The Paula Deen Incident
I’ve finally had the opportunity to review the complaint filed against Paula Deen. Many people have been making this incident about the “N” word only, but it’s much more than that. I personally find it...
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Professional Equivalent
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