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willendorf5761

How to get better at being me.

Apr 21, 2009 12:13

I'm feeling more and more like I need to go back to school and get some mental health training. Before I got this job I was getting ready to apply to social work school, but the social work program is really not compatible with working full time, and I want to keep this job -- in fact, I'm feeling like I need some mental health training because I ( Read more... )

mediation

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oddprofessor April 21 2009, 22:19:33 UTC

I have done divorce mediation (lotsa trainging from Cornell's extension service and other training), and I agree that it's way too easy to start therapizing instead of mediating. (God amighty, I'd love to mediate for a living. Someday I'll tell you why I don't anymore, but it's not interesting or exciting.) I think I'd like to do both, to tell the truth, but not at the same time!

My daughter has considered an MSW to work with teens with gender "issues." She said that growing up gay (even in a loving, accepting family) was lonely and isolating. She'd like to work with kids who are going through that.