Archive for March, 2008

Listed by most recent articles first.

• What’s Your Time Perspective?
  We are all time travelers: We draw on past memories, experience the present and look forward to future rewards. But how easily we travel back and forth makes a crucial difference to how well we ...
• Modeling Responsibility for Kids
  "Why can't you be more responsible?" How many times have we said it, thought it, wished it about our own children and heard it coming from the mouths of other parents? We want our ...
• Components of Recovery
  Recovery has only recently become a word used in relation to the experience of psychiatric symptoms. Those of us who experience psychiatric symptoms are commonly told that these symptoms are incurable, that we will have ...
• Using Advocacy as a Self-Help Tool
  To truly experience wellness and recovery I have learned that I want to be, and have to be an advocate for issues that I feel passionately about. A big part of recovery for me has ...
• Building and Keeping a Circle of Friends
  One of the most important wellness tools for many people is spending time with people you enjoy. They have found that regular contact with family members and friends who are supportive keeps them well. They ...
• How Do You Know When You’re Recovered?
  Getting well is a process that began for me a long time ago. I never expect to finish. Given different responses from responsible adults and health care professionals in my life, my journey might have ...
• Coping with My Mom’s Mental Illness
  I first became aware of "mental illness" when I was eight years old. My mother began spending all of her time sitting in a rocking chair-rocking, crying, very frightened and unbearably sad. No one asked ...
• Historical Secrets to Happiness
  Has the latest fad, "positive psychology," increased our happiness? Not according to a British author and cultural historian. Positive psychology, defined as "the study of optimal human functioning," has gained enormous popularity in the past decade. ...
• Teamwork for Two-Career Couples
  Tia and Miles met when they were each new grad students at the local university and have been together ever since. Now, with each of them close to graduating, they are talking about getting married. ...
• Evaluating a Childcare or Daycare Program
  One of the challenges faced by parents who’ve decided to use a childcare program for their infant or toddler is separating the good programs from the bad or even unsafe ones. Sometimes it’s obvious. For ...
• Finding the Work You Love
  There's a quiet revolution going on in the workplace. Something fundamental has shifted in our attitude. Instead of money and status, we're increasingly looking for meaning and purpose, work that's truly worth doing. Just ten or ...
• Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT)
  Mentalization based therapy (MBT) is a specific type of psychodynamically-oriented psychotherapy designed to help people with borderline personality disorder (BPD). Its focus is helping people to differentiate and separate out their own thoughts and feelings ...
• Predictably Irrational
  The latest rage in books seem to be those that point out how humans behave. Consider it pop psychology for the masses, and sometimes, of the masses. Dan Ariely's newest offering, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces ...