By Carole Showell, DHSc (in progress), LCSW—Understanding the history of Arirang, the Korean students at Howard University, and how cross-cultural meaning-making shapes the way art is interpreted today. Disclaimer: This was written by a human who had to use em dashes for the sake of grammar. It was slightly polished for readability using ChatGPT because your human author tends to be extremely wordy. All referenced sources were manually researched, reviewed, and summarized by

Carole Showell, DHSc (in progress), LCSW - Why cultural context changes how we understand Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Yesterday, I came across a very informative article (linked below) written by Dr. Sarah Abedi that demonstrates the importance of understanding the origin and development of commonly used clinical frameworks. Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a structured psychological theory for understanding the relationship between an individual's needs and their capacity for

By Kenneth L. Bourne Jr., LSW, Founder Bourne Anew- A Practice Framework For Helping Professionals Most of us want to help people. We want to be good therapists, good neighbors, good educators, good humans. We read the books. We take the trainings. We learn the language. We try to stay informed, self-aware, and trauma-informed. And still, many of us quietly wonder: Why isn’t this landing? Why does this feel harder than it should? Why do I feel like I’m missing something impor