Jane Barken, a professor at Loyalist College and member of both the North American SRV Council and the Southern Ontario Training Group, sent me a link to this CBC News article, pointing out that it has… Read More »article: ‘Pain underestimated by doctors for some patients’
SRV and PASSING training has been done in many agencies in many different countries over the last almost 30 years. Attending SRV and PASSING workshops are certainly intense learning experiences. By itself, however, attendance at… Read More »Follow-up reflections after attending a PASSING workshop
Take a look at the following video from a Social Role Valorization perspective: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQt_Rq1mStE What lessons can we learn from this brief video? And what implications might these lessons have in terms of how we… Read More »‘Smart home’
An article in the 17 May 2010 issue of The New Yorker, entitled The Poverty Lab, reports on an economist/professor at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts (US). Esther Duflo studies poverty and poor people. The article… Read More »Is hearing about someone or meeting them more powerful?