[humanser] New Member

[Sandy]

Hi Dorothy,

Your message and spirit gives me hope, especially as we are the same age and 
both got degrees later in our lives.  Some people lecture me that I won't or 
shouldn't work because I am too old.  I do some work in a community mental 
health setting, and I tend to be positive and strength based with my 
clients.

Wishing you all the best for your group.


Sandy Burgess, LCSW

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From: "Dorothea Martin" <bestsinger at samobile.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2013 4:38 PM
To: <humanser at nfbnet.org>
Subject: [humanser] New Member

> Hello to All,
> I have just joined this list and would like to introduce myself. |I am an 
> American studying Positive Psychotherapy, a new branch of psychotherapy 
> known mainly in Europe and Asia, in Kosovo. I am in my last semester of 
> classwork for a Master's degree in this field. I am blind and look forward 
> to sharing ideas and thoughts with other human services workers. Beginning 
> in September I will be facilitating a psychotherapy and mental health 
> maintenance group for teenaged students at the Kosovo school for the blind 
> and helping them start a music program to prepare students to enter the 
> music program at the university in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo. I am 
> 62 years old anhd in my day the schools for the blind gave no attention to 
> teaching us how to maintain our mental health. I believe that this lack 
> has actually led to many blind people dying well before their time. I want 
> to specialize in helping blind and disabled people to maintain or restore 
> mental health. I very much look forward to sharing ideas with all of you.
> Dotty Martin
>
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