It is known that the bio-medical model is widely used to understand, treat, and find a cure for what affects the human kind. To find the cure, the bio-medical discourse looks for and targets non-ordinary states of mind (psychopathology) and nonconformist behaviors (personality disorders) that sets some individuals apart from the mainstream […]Read Post ›
The medical model temporarily assists the pained other in a spiritual crisis. However, what assists the pained other is for the clinician to be present. In order to be present and practice ethical social work the clinician must be in contact and integrate the shadow self.
This is the first podcast for The Art of Presence.
John is too distraught and anxious. He is incapable of taking out the trash, sort out his laundry, even decide what to wear. Frantically, the only time he picks up the phone is to call his cousin and let her, miles away, guide him on how to do the mundane activities he was once able to do. Plagued by the […]Read Post ›
The Art of the Clinician’s Presence and Spirituality: Encompassing the Whole Person in the Therapeutic Encounter The clinician’s sense of spirituality and state of presence is controversial, if not lacking, in many settings. Social Work schools do not focus on the clinician’s spirituality and the essence of presence in the therapeutic encounter. Rather […]Read Post ›
The Art of Presence in Mental Health 