Helping Stepdads Adjust | Social Workers Speak

The picture taken from the article hyperlinked below - says it all - for a lot of men experiencing the joys of step-parenting. Today's stepparenting is coloured by unfavourable history. Men do play important roles in step-parenting and great to see research happening on this issue.

Stepfathers often get a bad rap. Communication is a key to their becoming good parents, a new study says. Photo courtesy of msnbc.com.

Helping Stepdads Adjust | Social Workers Speak

Identifying unexpected strengths in adolescents

A powerful article looking at identifying the positives within an adolescent's world. Building on them from their worlds is important. If they good at mastering sport - that is transferable.



Identifying unexpected strengths in adolescents

Crack Cocaine in the Headlines - 'Denial Is Used by Big People'

Fortunately for us in Australia we don't appear to have too many issues with crack cocaine.  What this article is expressing is the fact that when people who have the attached "celebrity" status it is important to recognise how their behaviour can influence people into modelling them.



This is something that when influential people are caught in their addiction - they too can't see what influence their behaviour has.  They too get caught up in the process of denial and that what they are doing is okay.  Took the Mayor a long time to reconsider his position.





Crack Cocaine in the Headlines