December 2006 – Tips & Topics

TIPS & TOPICS Volume 4, No.7 December 2006 In this issue – SAVVY – SKILLS – SOUL – STUMP THE SHRINK – Until Next Time Happy and Healthy New Year for 2007! Thanks to all who responded to my request in last month’s edition for your TTT from TNT (Your Top Ten Tips from TIPS and TOPICS). It’s not too late to submit your list; read SUGGESTIONS in the Oct-Nov 2006 issue.

October/November 2006 – Tips & Topics

TIPS & TOPICS Volume 4, No.6 October-November 2006 In this issue – SAVVY – SKILLS – SOUL – SUGGESTIONS – Until Next Time This is the late October/and now late November issue of TIPS and TOPICS. It’s a little longer, so you get your money’s worth.

September 2006 – Tips & Topics

TIPS & TOPICS  Volume 4, No.5 September 2006 In this issue – SAVVY – SKILLS – SOUL – SUCCESS STORIES – Until Next Time Welcome to the September issue of TIPS and TOPICS. If you are receiving this in October, it is because we have been playing catch-up all month. Hopefully you will actually receive the October issue in October!

July/August 2006 – Tips & Topics

TIPS & TOPICS  Volume 4, No.4 July/August 2006 In this issue – SAVVY – SKILLS – SOUL – STUMP THE SHRINK – Until Next Time Welcome to the summer edition of TIPS and TOPICS. (For the Southern Hemisphere readers, it’s the winter edition). August has been a month of stimulating international travel. The rich cultural experience and still vivid images makes writing about clinical behavioral health issues an anticlimax. So this edition of TNT is going to be a version of “What I did on my summer holidays.”

June 2006 – Tips & Topics

TIPS & TOPICS Volume 4, No.3 June 2006 In this issue – SAVVY – SKILLS – SOUL – STUMP THE SHRINK – Until Next Time Welcome to the June edition of TIPS and TOPICS (TNT). We won’t call it the June/July issue even though you are receiving it in the first few days of July. You will however receive a combined July/August edition sometime in August – as is our custom in the summer.

May 2006 – Tips & Topics

TIPS & TOPICS Volume 4, No.2 May 2006 In this issue – SAVVY – SKILLS – SOUL – Until Next Time Welcome to our fourth year of publishing TIPS and TOPICS. Time has flown by. Thanks for your faithful readership, interest and reactions to the material. I’ll celebrate Volume 4 with a new acronym. A longtime reader shortened TIPS and TOPICS to TNT. I thank him for that; it will shorten my typing time and make it easier to refer to this dynamite newsletter (if I may say so myself). If you are a new subscriber, remember you can view and download printable copies of all previous editions of TNT. Go to www.DMLMD.com. On the Homepage, click on ‘Tips & Topics.’

April 2006 – Tips & Topics

TIPS & TOPICS  Volume 3, No.11 April 2006 In this issue – SAVVY and STUMP THE SHRINK – SKILLS – SOUL – Until Next Time Thank you for joining me in the April edition of TIPS and TOPICS. I appreciate the positive comments I receive either by e-mail or onsite when I am training. I’m not planning a formal survey, but if you are moved to express appreciation, this helps me to know what works with TIPS & TOPICS. If you write me, just say briefly what works for you, and what you find useful in general about this newsletter.

March 2006 – Tips & Topics

TIPS & TOPICS March 2006  Vol 3. No.10 – SAVVY – SKILLS – SUCCESS STORIES – STUMP THE SHRINK – SOUL – Until Next Time Welcome to TIPS and TOPICS, especially the many new readers who have joined us recently. This month’s edition follows-up the February edition which focused on paperwork and the search for more meaningful and efficient ways to address the universal paperwork frustrations. The comments, questions, suggestions and success stories generated by last month’s topic prompted me to extend this paperwork focus for the March edition.

February 2006 – Tips & Topics

TIPS & TOPICS Volume 3, No.9 February 2006 In this issue – SAVVY, SKILLS and STUMP THE SHRINK all in one – SOUL – SHAMELESS SELLING – Until Next Time Thanks for joining us for the February edition of TIPS and TOPICS. This month’s edition has a few twists and turns. Firstly, it is arriving well and truly before the end of the month rather than my usual last minute deal. The reason is I am training in the UK and Germany in February-March, and aiming to complete my “to do” list before I depart.

January 2006 – Tips & Topics

TIPS & TOPICS  Volume 3, No.8 January 2006 In this issue – SAVVY – SKILLS – SOUL – Until Next Time Welcome to this first edition of 2006. I hope you find something useful in your clinical, administrative or personal life.