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Couple Counseling: Is It Safe?

Gary Direnfeld

It’s not uncommon for me to decline a request for couple counseling. Risk indicators includes screaming, name calling, breaking of objects, hitting, pushing, shoving, choking, threatening harm, abuse of pets, limiting access to resources, police or child protection agency involvement. Screening for these issues is never perfect.

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What is non-suicidal self-harm?

Beautiful Voyager

Non-suicidal self-harm means inflicting damage to your own body without the intention of suicide (and not consistent with cultural norms). The most common methods of non-suicidal self-harm are cutting (70%) or scratching, deliberately hitting the body on a hard surface, punching, hitting or slapping one’s self, and biting or burning.

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How Relationship Counselling Can Benefit You

Psychological Health Care

Relationship counselling with a professional therapist or psychologist can help improve the way you relate to your partner, assist in changing patterns of behaviour and help negotiate difficult periods. Relationship counselling may help you resolve a current problem or prevent an issue from getting worse.

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Best books for mental health professionals

Save the Social Worker

When you wonder if you should just leave the profession, since you seem to be doing more harm than good. Counselling: A Problem-Solving Approach (Anthony Yeo) Known as the father of counselling in Singapore, Anthony Yeo relates his experience of decades of counselling in this simple tome. Here are some of the best books.

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For Some, the Greater the Closeness, the Greater the Perceived Risk

Gary Direnfeld

The learning for some is the closer you get intimately, the greater the risk of harm and/or betrayal. Just be open to self-examination. gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support. The thing is, even if you are with a good person, that fear, conscious or unconscious can undermine getting close.

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Disconnect Bridged: Getting Closer in Your Relationship

Gary Direnfeld

She thought him self-centered. She saw how speaking up brought harm to her mother. As scary as the thought of counseling was, for them it worked. He thought her a complainer. He hailed from a family where dad abandoned him and his mother, when he was an infant. There was a perceived risk for her.

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Leaving Home Before Your Time

Gary Direnfeld

They flee those conditions that being harm to self and others within the home. gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support. Some young people don’t leave home. Some flea at a young age, teenagers, not yet fully formed, not yet adults. Not yet with all supports in place.

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