The do's and don'ts of client session notes
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The first ‘do’ is you must write session notes! Taking adequate session notes (or ‘progress notes’) is part of the important review and planning associated with providing an ongoing psychological service, and is one of the ethical obligations of psychologists. Session notes fa...
Published Jun 2017
Family psychoeducation for the treatment of psychosis
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Family psychoeducation (FPE) interventions have been shown to reduce relapse rates and symptom levels and improve the social participation of people living with severe and persistent psychotic disorders. Although less known amongst psychologists, FPE has a well established evi...
Published Jun 2017
Working with suicidal clients: Impacts on psychologists and the need for self-care
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‘You cannot wipe the tears off another’s face without getting your own hands wet.’ - Zulu proverb
As early as the late 1890s, Sigmund Freud reported his own suppression of feelings after his patient's suicide. For many years following, the suicide of a psychiatric patient w...
Published Jul 2019
Dread, exhaustion and rising helplessness: inside the burnout among Australia’s psychologists
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The fallout from the pandemic-fuelled mental health epidemic on the people tasked with helping the rest of us is widespread, and growing.
“The clients that get under your skin are the ones that you can see your life mirrored in,” says Melbourne-based psychologist Lucy*...
Published Jan 2023