Introduction Mensa is the world’s largest high IQ society. I’d always been in awe of so-called geniuses like Stephen Hawking, Leonardo Da Vinci and Marie Curie. I wanted to be like them – able to make scientific breakthroughs and better understand our world. Plus I really enjoyed that episode of The Simpsons where Lisa joins…
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Using Assessments in Salesforce Human Services
Introduction As a user of Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud Case Management (NCCM) one of the best tools I’ve found in the package is the Assessment function. Every human services organization likely does some form of assessment with clients. Whether this is a specific tool like the Self-Sufficiency Matrix or the VI-SPDAT, or a more informal needs…
Introduction to Life Coaching
Introduction Life Coaching is a field that has been expanding since the 1970s with the growth of the Human Potential Movement. Life Coaching is “partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential” (International Coach Federation, n.d.) Life coaching is frequently performed by counsellors and therapists…
Golan Model of Crisis Intervention
Introduction Naomi Golan is the creator of the Golan Model of Crisis Intervention, and a pioneer of crisis theory and crisis intervention. She is Professor Emeritus at the University of Haifa in Israel, where she retired in 1984. (Dorfman, 2013) Golan’s 1978 book Treatment in Crisis Situations provided a review of her three phase model of…
Biopsychosocial Model of Suicidal Behaviour
Introduction There are a variety of models of suicidal behaviour. These models attempt to map suicidal behaviour or put it into boxes so that a helping professional can better understand how suicidal behaviour forms and how it can be treated and resolved. This Biopsychosocial Model comes from Kumar, U. & Mandal, M.K. (2010). The model…