Victoria Brewster, MSW Archive
by Victoria Brewster, MSW – SJS Staff Writer I would love to get a discussion going regarding the needed services for older adults/seniors. No matter what country or community you live in, there are services lacking. Baby-Boomers will enter …
by Victoria Brewster, MSW – SJS Staff Writer Poetry—- a form of creativity, but it serves another purpose as well. Poetry, like music, is an outlet for feelings and emotions. It is a way to get a point across in …
by Victoria Brewster, MSW – SJS Staff Writer Every once in a while we read a book that has an impact on us. The book I just finished reading, ‘The Gift of Rain’ by Tan Twan Eng was such …
By Victoria Brewster, MSW – SJS Staff Writer OxyContin seems to be the medication causing dilemmas here in Canada. The drug or medication has been authorized to be a generic and this has some people uncertain, scared, cautious. OxyContin is a painkiller and …
by Victoria Brewster, MSW – SJS Staff Writer If you are reading this, I am making the assumption that you are already a BSW/MSW or you are a student to become one. Why have you chosen the field of social …
by Victoria Brewster, MSW – SJS Staff Writer I am currently reading the book ‘Mindsight’ by Daniel J. Siegel, MD who is a clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA School of Medicine and co-director of the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center. The …
by Victoria Brewster, MSW – SJS Staff Writer How were you educated at school whether undergraduate or graduate? Was it a ‘just the facts’ orientation or an empathic, client-centered model? Is there room for both? Sometimes we have to …
by Victoria Brewster, MSW – SJS Staff Writer I read an article in my local paper today on the topic of criticism and times we cannot deal with it. Well, it could be our own fault. (The Montreal Gazette, QC, …
by Victoria Brewster, MSW – SJS Staff Writer One only has to follow the Canadian news, read the local paper or talk to health professionals, who will say Socialized Medicine or Medicare needs an overhaul. While there are many benefits to …
By Victoria Brewster, MSW SJS Staff Writer I attended an all day workshop on NLP-Neurolinguistic Programming yesterday here in Montreal. NLP at its most basic, is a form of Behavior Modification. It has been around since the 1970’s- think Fritz Perls, Milton …
