Career Library

• 5 Tips for Handling Workplace Drama
  Workplace drama makes for a very tense environment. From rumor mills to office cliques, many of us have ...
• Clinicians on the Couch: 10 Questions with Therapist Jeffrey Sumber
  Every month we interview a different clinician about everything from practicing therapy to leading a meaningful ...
• I Got My Dream Job and So Can You: 7 Steps to Creating Your Ideal Career
  When Pete Leibman was a senior at Johns Hopkins University, he spent his final two semesters in desperate search of a job. He had all the usual characteristics of a good hire: he went to ...
• You Are What You Wear: What Your Clothes Reveal About You
  Anyone who has seen TLC’s popular TV show “What Not to Wear” will recognize the psychological issues discussed in Dr. Jennifer Baumgartner’s recently published You Are What You Wear: What Your Clothes Reveal About You.  ...
• Clinicians on the Couch: 10 Questions with Psychologist Ryan Howes
  Every month we chat with one clinician about everything from the trials and triumphs of being a ...
• What Death Can Teach Us about Life
  I attended a funeral the other week for the husband of one of my colleagues. He was a relatively ...
• Life is Full of Transitions
  Retirement: "removal or withdrawal from service, office, or business;" "withdrawal into privacy or seclusion." No wonder this word retirement seems so inappropriate ...
• Finding the Right College
  Parents: Please note that this column is meant to be shared with your teenager. Okay, you made ...
• Smart Thinking: 3 Essential Keys to Solve Problems, Innovate, and Get Things Done
  Today we have access to more information than ever before -- at our fingertips, quickly, and in great volume. Going along with that, we also have a wealth of books and websites that tell us ...
• Losing Our Moral Compass: The Negative Effects of Overstressing Academic Achievement
  I look at the story headlines in various magazines and newspapers. “Gotta Start ...
• Kiss That Frog! 12 Great Ways to Turn Negatives into Positives in Your Life and Work
  The late comedian George Carlin had a great line about self-help books: “If you’re looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else? That’s not self­-help. That’s help!” While we can all ...
• The Blueprint for a Sucessful Practice: Methods of Marketing Your Business and Increasing Your Bottom Line
  The Blueprint for a Successful Practice by Gina Spielman is a book for people who have decided to take the plunge and start their own business. Although Spielman is a licensed clinical social worker ...
• Reflections on Grass Root Changes in Educating Children
  A few years ago, I was sitting at my desk this morning and reviewing several articles ...
• iDisorder: Understanding Our Obsession with Technology and Overcoming Its Hold on Us
  One of Dr. Larry Rosen’s friends feels he must be continuously connected to his electronic devices. If he is in a conversation that is more than 15 minutes long, “he excuses himself to go to ...
• Schools Fail to Educate at Least 30 Percent of Our Students
  “No Child Left Behind” is a joke. Most of the ...
• The Escape of Sigmund Freud
  Eighty years old, sick with cancer, and reeling from the Nazis' takeover of his beloved Vienna, Sigmund Freud, in 1936, faced a harsh reality: he had to leave. But where would he go, and how ...
• Young Families Face New Problems
  Ed and Carol were seeking help for a number of common complaints: poor communication, ...
• Tragic Beauty: The Dark Side of Venus Aphrodite and the Loss and Regeneration of Soul
  Everyone has met Aphrodite -- the girl who enters a room and men turn their heads to gawk, the girl who always has a man clutching her arm while several others wait in the wings. ...
• How Clinicians Practice Self-Care & 9 Tips for Readers
  Self-care is vital for well-being, and no group knows that better than clinicians. Not only do they help clients learn to take better care ...
• 15 ADHD-Friendly Tips to Fire Up Your Focus
  A wandering mind is common for people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Whether you’re talking to your ...
• 8 Tips for Working from Home with Mental Illness
  People with mental illness struggle with the same time management troubles, distraction dilemmas and isolation issues as others ...
• The 11 Laws of Likability: Relationship Networking
  Sometimes self-help authors can’t help but fall into the trap of being overly positive. But not Michelle Tillis Lederman -- she knows how to remain balanced.  In her book, The 11 Laws of Likability: Relationship ...
• How to Find a Fulfilling Career Path
  Finding a fulfilling career can seem like a dream, especially if you’re currently miserable at your job. You might have ...
• Career Coaching 101: Finding a Professional to Help You Find Your Fulfilling Career
  “Career coaching is a great way to get personal help with establishing your professional ...