16 May, 2024 By Dr John Ashfield Understanding and Managing Anger In understanding and managing anger it is vitally important to try and deal with anger as soon as it appears, and especially before it builds up to the point where it is explosive, overwhelming, or…
26 Apr, 2024 By Dr John Ashfield About Relationship Violence Relationship violence may involve physical violence, but we need to understand relationship violence more broadly as behaviour that is violating. Such violence may also be coercive, that is, a pattern of behaviour that is harmful….
7 Feb, 2023 By Dr John Ashfield Work and Getting Life Working Thinking about priorities Doubtless you’ve heard the catch-phrase ‘achieving a work/life balance’? Work and getting life working is easier said than done, you might say; and that’s a fair comment, if the phrase implies some…
30 Jan, 2023 By Dr John Ashfield Saying no to the tyranny of devices One of the most insidious threats to self-care and self-preservation for anyone working in the fields of health or human services is the unchallenged and habit forming use of technology, our everyday devices. Learn how…
15 Dec, 2022 By Sarah Ashfield Giving children support when they are grieving This article is an excerpt from our digital resource “A Guide to Talking to Children when a relative has died” available here. It is focused on giving children support when they are grieving. Giving children…
10 Dec, 2022 By Dr John Ashfield Life Script – Getting out of the habit of being ourselves If we don’t bring our life script into our awareness and review and revise it, we can simply go through life continually recycling ourselves and patterns of response, behaviour, and attitudes, consistent with it. This…
10 Dec, 2022 By Dr John Ashfield Suicide Assessment Guidelines Scope and Use of these Guidelines These assessment guidelines are intended as a guide for clinical decision making, and are based on known and significant risk factors (correlates) of suicide and can be downloaded as…