‘Reviews’ at Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life, Page 3

Good news for practitioners looking for an easy way to log clinical contact hours: our simple clinical logbooks have been updated for the 2007-08 calendar, academic, and financial years. For the first time, we also have a special version for online practitioners eager to escape the ethical quicksand of reporting online clinical experience in misleading calendar time.

With a significant upgrade to version 8.5, one of the most powerful text-editing packages available on any platform acquires some new features and refines existing ones. It also sees a big price drop. Check out our previous review of BBEdit 8.0 for the full story on this remarkable software package, or check the new review to learn what’s changed in the upgrade.

If you’re a mental health practitioner spending long hours in front of a computer communicating with clients, you’ll appreciate our review series on devices that can help reduce the symptoms of repetitive strain injuries. In our latest review, we take a look at the Logitech Cordless Trackman Optical.

Meet the parents of your next web site building environment: the industry’s two leading software packages, Adobe GoLive CS2 and Macromedia Dreamweaver 8, have recently been brought under one roof by the acquisition of Macromedia by Adobe. We take a look at how the two packages measure up and offer suggestions about upgrading or waiting for the products’ futures to become clearer.

Are you still getting by with paper records of client hours? Make 2006 easier with a simple spreadsheet. Our free PC- and Mac-compatible clinical hours logbooks, used by clinicians to record contact hours with clients and time spent in supervision, have been updated for 2006. New versions are available for calendar year 2006, fiscal year 2006-07, and academic year 2006-07.