Ecological Human Services Management

Thanks for joining me.   I usually conclude episode posts with "For now, be well, do well and do something nice for someone. He or she will appreciate it and you both will have a better day."   Although this is usually true, now and then it isn't. Let's think about that today. What happens if both of you are not having a better day?   There are a lot of ways to make the point but a story will work as well as any of the others.   One:   Julio had been living in a small suburban neighborhood for the past five years. Not too long after college, he decided to settle down and start a family with Teresa, the woman he’d been in love with for more than a decade. She is a teacher and he as an accountant for a local small business. Things were going as expected until Julio got a call from his childhood friend Max who asked to stay with them for a little while.   Max told Julio that he had been looking for work and trying to make enough money to get by. He seemed desperate to get himself straightened out. Being