Archive for July, 2007
Listed by most recent articles first.
- The Power of Positive Internal Motivation
I was troubled by a conversation I had with my son this morning. My 10-year-old son came home from swim practice today and told me that he didn’t want to swim again and he ...
- Better Parenting Starts with Improving Ourselves
Parents are more alike than different. Most of us want to do a good job. Most of us love our children to death. Whether married, divorced, or single, most of our kids have at least ...
- Finding Balance: Family Therapy Can Help
Kathy and Will (not their real names) have been married eight years and are the parents of 3-year-old Addy. Kathy is seven months pregnant and scared. She and Will have been fighting a lot lately ...
- Relaxation Tools for Health
Feeling keyed-up and stressed unfortunately is a common problem and can be the source of many health problems. Viruses in particular frequently are linked to stress in research studies. Experts say that stress directly affects ...
- How To Beat Negative Thinking
Do you always remember criticisms and never compliments? Do you spend hours mulling over previous mistakes? You may be in the grip of negative thinking — but there is a way to escape the pattern.
For ...
- An Overview of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
Rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) is a practical, action-oriented approach to coping with problems and enhancing personal growth. REBT places a good deal of its focus on the present: on currently-held attitudes, painful emotions and ...
- Frequently Asked Questions about Suicide
Suicide is a significant cause of death in many western countries, in some cases exceeding deaths by motor vehicle accidents annually. Many countries spend vast amounts of money on safer roads, but very ...
- Transference-Focused Psychotherapy
Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) is a psychodynamic treatment designed especially for patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD). A distinguishing feature of TFP in contrast to many other treatments for BPD is the belief in a ...
- Tips To Reduce Family Stress
Stress caused by those close to you is hard to escape. As they say, "You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family." Children, elderly parents, and visiting relatives all can be sources ...
- Recognizing the Baby Blues (Postpartum Depression)
Your new baby is here! Everyone is joyous, happy, and grateful that the birth went smoothly and you came out of it fine. So how come you're feeling sad for no reason? Will this feeling ...
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy in the Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder
People with borderline personality disorder can be challenging to treat, because of the nature of the disorder. They are difficult to keep in therapy, frequently fail to respond to our therapeutic efforts and make ...
- An Overview of Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a specific type of cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy developed in the late 1980s by psychologist Marsha M. Linehan to help better treat borderline personality disorder. Since its development, it has also ...
- Your Child in the Balance
An Insider's Guide for Parents to the Psychiatric Medicine Dilemma
A more timely book couldn't have come across my desk this past month.
As we've discussed in our blog, World of Psychology, there is a ...
- How Time Management Can Work For You
We all have 24 hours in the day, but some of us feel we have no time while others seem to get everything done and still have time for fun and relaxation.
Poor time management can ...
- Anger Management
Anger is an emotional state that varies in intensity from mild irritation to intense fury or rage. It is accompanied by physiological and biological changes, like increased heart rate and blood pressure, as well as ...
