Category: Career Counseling
The Good Therapy Blog
May 17th, 2012 |
With the advent of easy plane travel, many larger businesses have grown to include regional, national, and even international customers or work sites. While our national economy now counts on the companies that make cars, bank, drill, grow, or publish around the world, the people who work at the higher levels of these industries find their jobs are not done just at their desks, no matter how amazingly connected they are electronically. Business relationships, decisions, and inspections can’t be built or done without physically being on-site, and long distance and extended travel are part of the... Read More
May 8th, 2012 |
The economy has still not recovered, and as a result people are still worried about being laid off or fired. Those who are employed may be overqualified for their jobs and getting paid a lot less than they were in the past. Those looking for a job may be so worried about finding one that they will take almost anything, just to get by, but that can end up causing its own stress. Being constantly worried about job stability and/or working at a job that you’re overqualified and underpaid for can wear on mental health. Experts have tips on how to overcome these stressors at the workplace.
Kim... Read More
April 20th, 2012 |
Many people agree that women have come a long way in regard to equal rights. Some even argue that women are completely equal to men and deny that sexism still exists. Others are appalled at the current state of attack on women’s rights. Whatever your opinion is on the current situation with equality among men and women and the concept of feminism, there is a specific type of therapy that still exists today called feminist therapy. With advances in equal rights, experts weigh in on the need for feminist therapy today.
Depending on who you ask, feminist therapy can be defined in slightly different... Read More
April 9th, 2012 |
Beauty Is Embarrassing. This is the title of a film I saw recently at the Cleveland International Film Festival. The subject of the film is an artist, Wayne White, whose message is stay true to yourself, no matter how hard that is, stay true to yourself and your passion. All will fall into place. He suggests that our creative impulses will always lead us where we need to go.
The title of the film comes from White’s premise that when we see beauty, we often feel vulnerable, “Who am I to see this?” “Who am I to create this, what will others think?” A deep feeling wells up within us when... Read More
April 5th, 2012 |
Maintaining proper medical treatment and adhering to a specialized protocol is essential for people who live with AIDS/HIV (PLWH). According to many studies, barely half of individuals diagnosed with AIDS/HIV get treatment in the first several months after diagnosis. Of those who do, less than 65% actually adhere to their prescribed treatment. People who are infected with AIDS/HIV and left untreated increase the health risks to themselves and pose a potential health threat to the community at large. Treatment advocacy (TA) is a... Read More
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March 22nd, 2012 |
Magic is a way of living. If one has done one’s best to steer the chariot, and one then notices that a greater other is actually steering it, then magical operation takes place. --C. G. Jung (The Red Book, p. 315)
I always knew that I was two persons. One was the son of my parents…the other was…old…mistrustful, remote from the world of men, but close to nature, the earth, the sun, the moon…all living creatures…and above all close to the night, to dreams, and to whatever “God” worked directly in him. --C. G. Jung (Memories, Dream, and Reflections, pp. 44-45)
What Jung called... Read More
February 20th, 2012 |
A 27-year-old woman named Katherine came into my office recently with a terrible case of the doldrums—a word that hasn't found its way into the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Psychiatric Disorders but carries more descriptive oomph than depression. The doldrums originally described an area of the sea where ships were not able to move for lack of wind. Katherine was in that bad place of being stuck and adrift at the same time, with nothing out there for her to catch a lift from. She lived at home with a father who worked all the time and a stepmother with whom she shared a nearly total silence.... Read More
February 16th, 2012 |
Teenagers must decide which educational path to take upon graduation, which sexual orientation or boundaries they will adhere to, and also which career they will aspire to. All of these things will influence the future course their lives take and, ultimately, their sense of well-being. A recent study conducted by Julie S. Ashby of the European Centre for the Environment and Human Health at the University of Exeter in England sought to examine the relationship between career aspirations in adolescence and achievement and well-being... Read More
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December 2nd, 2011 |
Some people insist they have been called to a specific vocation, while others merely work a job. “Scholars from a variety of disciplines have begun to explore what it means to have a calling and how this relates to outcomes, consistently finding calling to be associated with enhanced work-related and general eudemonic well-being,” said Ryan D. Duffy of the Department of Psychology at the University of Florida. “Moreover, barriers may exist that limit people’s abilities to carry out their callings, thereby impeding the potential positive psychological effects of having one.” Duffy recently... Read More
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July 15th, 2011 |
Congratulations to all of you college grads out there! You made it through four or more years of cramming for tests, writing papers, late nights studying (and other late night activities), hangovers, morning classes, dining hall food or top ramen and boxed macaroni and cheese. You also had a lot of unforgettable experiences, made lifetime friends, learned an amazing amount of material, grew tremendously as a person, became more independent, and perhaps... Read More
June 14th, 2011 |
Colleges and universities across the country have spent the months of May and June conferring degrees on eager, young graduates. There were ceremonies, parties, and tearful goodbyes to friends and professors. Now that all the fanfare has quieted down, many people in the class of 2011 are probably asking themselves – what now? It can be a daunting time, particularly if you were a “traditional” student who went straight from high school to college. You’ve probably never not... Read More
April 5th, 2011 |
“Mindfulness is a tool to get underneath our defenses. When we can observe ourselves closely, experiencing our feelings but not reacting to them, we don’t have to pretend that we don’t feel.”
-Richard O’Connor, Undoing Perpetual Stress: The Missing Connection Between Depression, Anxiety and 21st Century Illness (New York: Penguin Group, USA, 2005), pp.160-161
“If you have a fussy baby, do you shout at the baby? Do you get angry at it? Do you shake it? No-you build a cradle for the baby.”
-Anh-Huong Nguyen, quoted by O’Connor, p.157
Annie hurtled down the road of life like... Read More
February 17th, 2011 |
I love this quote; I have to work so hard to play. For many of us play does not come easily. Try wrapping your arms around the idea that you are not your work. What makes you successful? What do you consider achievements? If your list of successes and achievements are all on the highly difficult side of things then I would like to suggest a slight adjustment. Are you successful when things come easily or when you feel good about what you achieved?
I love what Phil Porter, co-founder of InterPlay has to say:
Get on
Get off
Get on with it Read More
January 30th, 2011 |
A GoodTherapy.org News Summary
The Higher Education Research Institute has been tracking the mental and emotional health of first-year college students for decades. This year’s freshman class has the lowest rate of emotional health documented in twenty-five years. The consequences of this will likely manifest in a variety of ways as these students progress through college. They’re more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol, to keep poor study habits, and to require... Read More
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