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Becoming Centered

Russ Bloch, MSW, MBA

This podcast is a field guide for professionals seeking perspectives and techniques for helping others find their balanced path. It"s also for people who want to learn the self-counseling pathways, navigation tools, and practices to live a centered life. Organized into several series, this podcast focuses on: (1) understanding the territory of personal psychology, (2) tools and techniques for counseling others in how to develop a centered and balanced life, and (3) tools and techniques for

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9. Trauma Protection with Physical Restraints

Becoming Centered ·

2023/09/06

Physical Restraints tend to be in response to intense, often times violent, situations and will have some degree of traumatizing effect on both the staff and the client. The neurochemical changes in the brain that are caused by traumatic incidents don’t automatically reset. Instead, memories of the incident are stored in your brain with the emotional content that the incident evoked. Parts of your body, your muscles and nervous system, also store the stress caused by the incident, long after the

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8. Physical Restraints

Becoming Centered ·

2023/08/30

Physical Restraints are, in my opinion, the best option for safely dealing with violent behaviors among children and youth in residential treatment. Self-injurious behaviors need to be stopped before they lead to permanent, or at least significant, damage. Assaultive behaviors need to be stopped before they lead to harm. Runaway behavior is a more nuanced judgement call. Sometimes staff can continue to monitor a runaway child or youth. However, allowing a troubled kid to be on their own in a

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7. Physical Interventions

Becoming Centered ·

2023/08/23

Physical Restraints are a complex and controversial subject that might be triggering for some people. There are scholarly articles on this subject and many national organizations have expressed opinions on the use of physical restraint. My perspective is primarily driven by my professional experiences participating in physical restraints, mechanical restraints, chemical restraints, and seclusion; and reviewing and reporting on thousands of these sorts of incidents. Ethical concerns around the use

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6. The Aspect Compass and Setting Limits

Becoming Centered ·

2023/08/16

This episode uses The Aspect Compass to frame the role of a Residential Counselor as serving as The Chief function with the clients to set limits, to help regulate, the kids’ emotions, cognitions, and behaviors. When residential staff don’t set enough limits, you’ll see a phenomenon called contagion. This comes from firefighting and describes how a fire will spread from one tree to another. It’s also used to describe how a disease will spread from one organism to another. The Artist responds to

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5. The Domain Compass and Labeling

Becoming Centered ·

2023/08/09

This episode reviews The Domain Compass, which is a way to visualize four domains of psychological functioning. In the East, there’s the domain of emotions, consisting of feelings and moods. In the South, there’s the domain of cognitions, consisting of thoughts and beliefs. In the West, there’s the domain of behaviors. That’s includes both external behaviors and all the internal workings of your physical body and nervous system. In the North, there’s the domain of executive skills. That’s where

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4. Team Building

Becoming Centered ·

2023/08/02

High level team work is an absolutely essential aspect of being an effective Residential Counselor. There’s a classic way to think about the formation of effective teams. It breaks team development into 5 over-lapping phases: Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, Adjourning. (1) Forming refers to all the dynamics that happen between team-mates when you’re relatively new to working with one another. · The key to moving through the forming phase is constant communication among team

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3. Therapeutic Relationships

Becoming Centered ·

2023/07/26

Therapeutic relationships help your clients become centered in four domains of psychological functioning. This can be visualized using The Domain Compass: · In the East, there’s the domain of emotions, consisting of feeling and moods. · In the South, there’s the domain of cognitions, consisting of thoughts and beliefs. · In the West, there’s the domain of behaviors, consisting of both all external actions and the internal actions of the physical body. · In the North,

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2. Professional Boundaries for Residential Counselors

Becoming Centered ·

2023/07/19

Professional boundaries includes: 1. the schedule of when you’ll have contact with the kids, 2. limits on physical touch, 3. limits on personal disclosure, and 4. the general tone of the professional relationship. 1. Your contact with clients is during scheduled hours. Be polite but minimize any accidental contact with clients outside of work. Don’t talk about your clients in public. 2. Limits on physical touch. Providing Physical

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1. The Role of Residential Counselor

Becoming Centered ·

2023/07/12

Welcome to the first episode of Becoming Centered. This episode begins the Residential Counselor Orientation series, designed for the new Residential Counselor. It introduces a way to understand your role, your relationship with clients and other counselors, and introduces some basic tools for becoming a skilled Residential Counselor. Episode 1 focuses on a specific understanding of the role of a Residential Counselor. For related resources check out the Bear Clan, llc website at

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