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Autism Impairs Communication Nearly half of the children with autism have communication impairments as well, including challenges with functional speech, and nonverbal communication. While many autistic children are capable kids in other important ways, these...

What is Resilience? Resilience is the ability to effectively cope with, adapt to, and overcome adversity, stress, and challenging experiences. When educators help students “cultivate an approach to life that views obstacles as a critical part of success, we help them...

Why Rapport Matters in Therapy Building rapport with your clients is perhaps the most important of clinical skills to possess. It is estimated that 40% of clients choose another therapist due to the quality of the therapeutic relationship. Some studies have even...

Failure is Inescapable Therapists are bound not to be “perfect” in every session. After all, perfection isn’t a human quality, so clinicians will certainly make mistakes. Making mistakes over the course of a therapy career is — in one word — inevitable. But unless...

Is Getting Stuck the Beginning or the End? Your clients come to you with high hopes to eliminate or at least reduce the deficit from which they are suffering. So what do you do when a client stops making progress in therapy and it seems like your sessions are going...

Autism Complicates an Already Difficult Situation Students with autism learn and adapt in different ways from other children. Take something as basic as understanding the “new reality.” Although other students may understand why they have more homework and can...

When clients are resistant in therapy, it can be discouraging. Therapists want nothing more than for their clients to make the best use of their time, and advance consistently toward their goals. But since resistance invariably occurs, we need to be prepared for it so...

Your Most Precarious Phase in the Job Search If there’s any phase in the job search process where candidates slip up the most, it’s the interview phase, said Kathy Northamer, a district president at the Robert Half staffing agency in Minneapolis. “That’s why it’s...

Uncertainty Anxiety at its Core This is a time of unprecedented uncertainty. And as that uncertainty increases as a function of incessant change in the world, people’s anxiety levels are increasing as well. For some people, this will exacerbate their existing anxiety...