Even as we type, my colleague and good friend David is in Portland Oregon, teaching a couple of courses on facilitating family decision making group-based service teams. What a mouthful THAT phrase was! These courses are based on work he and I have done here at CFRP over the past dozen or so [...]

When you've devoted your life to learning a helping profession — counseling, social work, medicine, etc. — it's hard to think that you might be part of the problem as much as part of the solution. Part of it involves recognizing and mitigating inequities in a multicultural society. Another part of it involves [...]

The word used to mean something. But in the human service bizz, it became popular with funders (for all the right reasons) and then became ubiquitous among service providers (for a few right reasons and a whole lot of wrong ones). Now it’s often sprinkled about and means little more than “agreement to share funding” [...]

What’s in a name?
Some of us remember when Carl Rogers stopped using the term “patient” and starting using “client” instead. 21 years ago I was working at a community mental health agency when I first took note of a movement afoot: mental health patient advocacy groups were eschewing the term “client” and referring to [...]