Speaking of dogs, and what they give back – besides begging and slobbering and shedding – a Social Worker employed by Merced County in California started a program for at-risk teenagers. Apparently, this program allows teens to provide assistance-dog training and care to canines who are then place with persons afflicted with various disabilities such [...]

Dogs are great companions, and we all know that they can be trained as seeing-eye animals, protection and law-enforcement assistants, hunting companions, and even help therapeutically. I was aware that dogs can be trained to sense some cancers on people and I did see a special on TV about dogs being able to alert owners [...]

Each April, WAMFT (our local chapter in Wisconsin for the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy) presents a two day conference. It is there that I attended a presentation by Lee Raffel, MSW and found her book – “Should I Stay or Should I Go – How Controlled Separation (CS) Can Save Your Marriage”. [...]