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Upskilling Your Talent Development Expertise Through Certification

Continuous technological and social advances are changing the workplace through major evolutions in role design and project-based collaboration. These changes are driving the transition towards skill-based learning and career paths. As a result, people’s potential and performance are increasingly being assessed by their combination of verified skills and abilities rather...

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Work Therapy: You don’t have to be everyone, everywhere, all at once

In this week’s episode of Work Therapy with Dr. Steven Stein, we chat with Dr. Roger Pearman, an expert in the field of personality types. Roger is also the author of MHS’ Pearman Personality Integrator, a ground-breaking tool that brings a new model of understanding and development to the field...

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The critical role of measurement-based care in mental health treatment

Despite its potential benefits, only a small fraction of clinicians currently use measurement-based care practices. This article explores the importance of measurement-based care and highlights why assessments are important within this approach and what features are critical to support measurement-based care. What is measurement-based care? You may have heard of phrases like...

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A School Psychologist’s Guide to Restoring Developmental Milestones

Rebecca Ragland is an Assessment Consultant in our Education division at MHS. As an experienced school psychologist with a background in public education, she shares her knowledge of how other school psychologists can better support students and their families in the upcoming school year. We talk about disruptions in youth...

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Work Therapy: Reskilling is the new normal

In this week’s episode of Work Therapy with Dr. Steven Stein, we chat with Jeff Melanson, a Canadian business executive who has worked for more than 15 years in the fine arts community and public sector in some of Canada’s most noteworthy cities. Jeff is committed to using his vast...

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Pedro das Neves: The Power of Technology in the Prison System

Pedro das Neves is the CEO of IPS Innovative Prison Systems, a research and consulting firm specializing in justice and correctional services. He is the Executive Director of ICJS Innovative Criminal Justice Inc., a Canadian firm that focuses on advisory, design, integration, and delivery of innovative organizational and technological solutions...

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40 Years of Innovation: Celebrating MHS

“One of our driving forces was to really change psychology, and to have an influence across the field in terms of what we were doing [...] We could just see beyond us that there was an opportunity to make a bigger change than we could make by ourselves.” - Dr. Steven...

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Fearless Leader: An interview with Dr. Cathy Greenberg

Dr. Cathy Greenberg is an Executive Coach, bestselling author (Wall Street Journal, Amazon, New York Times), lauded Podcast Host, and Founder of The Fearless Leaders Group (now known as http://EBGuardians.com), an LMS dedicated to leadership coaching for individuals and organizations across public safety, law enforcement, and DoD within the Emotional...

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Bridging the gap: Videoconferencing in corrections

If the COVID-19 pandemic taught criminal justice professionals anything, it was that the criminal justice system was not immune to the sweeping effects of the pandemic. The pandemic brought various challenges to those who are incarcerated, on probation, or on parole within North America. Correctional and probation/parole officers saw an...

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Autism and the Pandemic: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Symptom Changes

The COVID-19 pandemic and its associated public health response led to the enforcement of restrictions such as physical distancing, in-person school and office closures, shifts to online learning and virtual work, and reductions in community and school-based services and extracurricular activities. While these restrictions helped control the spread of COVID-19,...

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