Victoria Brewster, MSW Archive
by Victoria Brewster, MSW – SJS Staff Writer in Montreal, Canada So, the holidays are only a few weeks away…. now is a time to think what does a client need? How can we best assist them? Personally, as the …
Victoria Brewster, MSW – SJS Staff Writer in Montreal, Canada Another amazing book that opened my eyes to an issue that for the most part does not affect Canadians or other westernized countries to the point it does in Third …
by Victoria Brewster, MSW – SJS Staff Writer in Montreal, Canada So, if you are like me-you have not written up an advance care directive/mandate for healthcare wishes should one become incapacitated, because…..well….we are young yet. But you know what, I should …
by Vikki Brewster, MSW – SJS Staff Writer in Montreal, Canada We all have our own imaginary audience who judges us, offers us support, inspires us and criticizes us. This imaginary audience is our own internal dialogue and where would …
by Victoria Brewster, MSW – SJS Staff Writer in Montreal, Canada Family, the word has many definitions depending on who is defining it. Family can be parents and children, husband and wife, extended family members of cousins, aunts and uncles …
by Vikki Brewster, MSW – SJS Staff Writer in Montreal, Canada I sit down to read the Saturday paper and on page 2 is a write-up about “Medications could damage river ecosystem.” Montreal is itself an island and every time I …
by Vikki Brewster, MSW – SJS Staff Writer in Montreal, Canada I have to say I was a bit surprised when I came across this article in the Huffington Post-Canada: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/dyanoosh-youssefi/mentally-ill_b_2206105.html . I am sure I am not the only one …
by Vikki Brewster, MSW – SJS Staff Writer in Montreal, Canada The benefit to living in a city that has good universities is the research they conduct. Here in Montreal we have McGill, Concordia, University de Montreal and a few others, …
by Vikki Brewster, MSW – SJS Staff Writer I am currently reading a book titled, “Comfort’ by Ann Hood. Yes, I read a lot and as this is an area of interest for me….. this book is about a mother who loses …
by Victoria Brewster, MSW – SJS Staff Writer I am reading yet another wonderful book. Morrie Schwartz sheds some wisdom on what it is like to be diagnosed with an incurable degenerative disease, (ALS) amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehrig’s …
