Archive for December, 2007

Listed by most recent articles first.

• Rx for Mental Health: Send Holiday Cards!
  It’s easy to get cynical about holiday cards. There certainly is a lot of pressure to send them for all the wrong reasons: Because the person sent one to us. Because it is a way ...
• Midnight Monsters and Imaginary Companions
  Imaginary companions are an integral part of many children's lives. They provide comfort in times of stress, companionship when they're lonely, someone to boss around when they feel powerless, and someone to blame for the ...
• Future Planning for Your Intellectually Disabled Adult Child
  If you are in your mid to late 50s or older and have an intellectually disabled adult child living at home, you are part of the first generation whose disabled kids may well outlive them. ...
• When A Sibling Is Disabled
  The college-age daughter of a friend of mine once told me how, when she was growing up, she was jealous of the extra attention that her twin brother got from their parents. She was angry ...
• Tips for Managing Anger
  The instinctive, natural way to express anger is to respond aggressively. Anger is a natural, adaptive response to threats; it inspires powerful, often aggressive, feelings and behaviors, which allow us to fight and to defend ...
• Evaluating the Quality of Mental Health Websites
  Since the advent of the Web in the early 1990s, tens of thousands of consumer-oriented mental health Web sites have been created. Over 12 million results come up in the Google search engine when searching ...
• What is a Self-Help Group?
  Self-help groups, also known as mutual help, mutual aid, or support groups, are groups of people who provide mutual support for each other. In a self-help group, the members share a common problem, often a ...
• Is it Time to Get Help?
  Help in our lives comes in many forms. Sometimes we are helped by a kind word or a thoughtful act. Getting unexpected assistance with a project or chore makes life a little easier. Other times, ...
• Psychiatric Advance Directive
  A psychiatric advance directive, or PAD, allows patients with mental illness to state their preferences for, or dislikes of, specific treatments, designate a proxy decision-maker or make other advance decisions about their care. Advance directives are ...