Cal Paterson
Cal is a Consulting, Supervising and Clinical Psychologist in Sydney. He has presented papers and workshops in Australia and overseas on topics including Cognitive and Behaviour Therapy techniques, client factors affecting treatment outcome, working with parents and carers of people with disabilities, personality disorders, working with couples, and psychotherapy integration. He began working as a psychologist in Parramatta in 1998 and has worked with individuals, families and organisations across NSW and occasionally interstate ever since. He is married with two young children, and lived in the inner west of Sydney.
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Why you should plonk your kids in front of the telly
Among the down-sides of the widely-available LCD or Plasma TV is the redundancy of the term ‘boob-tube’. Whoever originally coined…... Read more
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Would you kill for a job?
Who would work in an abattoir? Most of us have done jobs we didn’t want to do because we needed…
Friday Dilemma: child cruelty or harmless fun?
Parenting. It’s the new oneupmanship. Ah, how quaint the days now seem when parents could raise…
Hipsters with hip replacements
Someone once told me that when people reach a certain age they begin dressing in the manner they did…
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From: Punch on: Open thread 09/02/2012
marley says:
I'm one of the older ones, so I've certainly seen a few changes in my time. When I started school I learned to write with a nib pen, dipped in an inkwell (no, I'm not kidding). My mother became a dab hand at getting inkstains out of my clothes. Flicking ink at one another in the classroom was an essential… [read more]From: I’d rather have a piece of toast than listen to crap lyrics
Erick says:
Led Zeppelin are responsible for my all-time favourite mixed metaphor: "There you sit, sit and stare, like a book on a shelf rusting." (Misty Mountain Hop) I laugh every time I hear it. Hmmm, I believe I've decided what to play on the way to work today. [read more]Gentle jabs to the ribs
No wuckin forries. These nuckin futs are tuckin fops
Well, puck me with a fitchfork. The F-word is apparently an acceptable part of Australian speech. That’s… Read more
