Work Issues Articles

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• How Clinicians Balance Work and Life
  When you’re passionate about your profession, balancing work with your personal life can get tricky. It gets even trickier when your work requires you to ...
• 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 ...
• Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique: A Lacanian Approach for Practitioners
  The popular TV series "Mad Men" contains several scenes depicting psychoanalysis. Betty Draper lies on the couch in her analyst’s office, the doctor seated impassively behind her. Betty reports on her mundane thoughts in great ...
• 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 ...
• 5 Tips to Increase Your Assertiveness
  “Assertiveness is all about being present in a relationship,” according to Randy Paterson, Ph.D, a clinical psychologist and author ...
• 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 ...
• Permission for Moms To Have Negative Feelings
  Q: I have a toddler who doesn't sleep well and never naps. She exhausts me with her never-ending need for ...
• 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 ...
• Clinicians on the Couch: 10 Questions with Therapist Julie Hanks
  Want to get a glimpse into a therapist’s world? Learn what therapy is really like? And get some wise advice ...
• 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done
  In 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done, Peter Bregman doesn’t offer a slew of strategies to accomplish all your activities per day. What he does offer is an ...
• Private Practice Made Simple
  There are plenty of books and websites out there offering advice to mental health professionals who want to know how to establish their own private practice. With this new release Randy J. Paterson, PhD offers ...
• Therapists Spill: The Best Advice I’ve Received On Conducting Therapy
  There are certain words of wisdom that stay with you the rest of your life -- especially ...
• 12 More Ways Successful Entrepreneurs Stay Productive and Overcome Pitfalls
  When you’re an entrepreneur, who inevitably wears many hats, managing your time can get tricky—especially when it’s ...
• Seeking Drug and Alcohol Treatment for Employees
  [caption id="attachment_9713" align="alignright" width="211" caption="Credit: PHILIP LEE HARVEY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY"][/caption]If you currently know of or have known of an employee who ...
• 7 Ways Successful Entrepreneurs Stay Productive and Overcome Pitfalls
  Last month, we spoke with five incredibly successful bloggers and entrepreneurs who shared their secrets to getting ...
• A Counselor’s Clients Can Make the Best Teachers
  From a reasonably young age, I knew exactly what I wanted to be -- a professional helper. I ...
• The Lab Rat Chronicles: A Neuroscientist Reveals Life Lessons from the Planet’s Most Successful Mammals
  Kelly Lambert, PhD is undoubtedly in the right field. She has a passion for the laboratory and a knack for applying its lessons to daily life. The Lab Rat Chronicles: A Neuroscientist Reveals Life ...
• 12 Ways Successful Bloggers, Entrepreneurs Stay Productive
  Full-time bloggers and entrepreneurs have to juggle a wide range of responsibilities. At Psych Central, we wanted to know ...
• Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
  This is an updated and revised version of the first edition of Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, published over 30 years ago. Roger Fisher is the founding chair of the Harvard Negotiation ...
• Sudden Genius? The Gradual Path to Creative Breakthroughs
  That question mark in the title is all-important as author Andrew Robinson attempts to provide answers to many questions about extreme intelligence we call genius. What Robinson wants the reader to understand is that the ...
• Is Technology Running Your Life? Set Some Boundaries
  I am not very good at separating my work from my life, partially because my work is a big ...
• Responding To Mental Illness in Your Workforce: Following the Law
  In Part 1 of this series, Leading a Culture Change, we talked about specific steps ...
• Responding To Mental Illness in Your Workforce: Leading a Culture Change
  As a leader in your organization, you’ve undoubtedly had to handle situations when you’ve been ...