Archive for December, 2011

• The 5 C’s of Effective Discipline: Setting Rules for Children
  People don't just stumble upon good parenting. Parenting well, like any other skill in life, is something ...
• Questions Kids Ask About ADHD
  Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a fairly common mental health concern among children and teenagers today. It is readily treated by medications, psychotherapy, or a combination of the two. Here are some commonly asked ...
• Questions Teens Ask about ADHD
  Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a fairly common mental health concern among children and teenagers today. It is readily treated by medications, psychotherapy, or a combination of the two. Here are some commonly asked ...
• 32 of the Best Ways to Get Organized When You Have ADHD
  Organization is a common challenge for adults with ADHD. But it can be done! ...
• Anger Trigger Behaviors
  The vast majority of chains of angry behavior never proceed past the first link. For example, someone in the family will tease or insult ...
• The Mid-Life Crisis: An Opportunity in Disguise?
  In the movie City Slickers the character played by Billy Crystal hits his 39th birthday and finds himself in a ...
• A Special New Year’s Resolution for Procrastinators
  Procrastinators rejoice! The coming of the New Year is a fantastic opportunity for you to energize yourself toward achieving ...
• Clinicians on the Couch: 10 Questions with Psychologist Deborah Serani
  In this brand-new feature, we interview a different therapist each month about their work. Below, you'll learn ...
• Avoidance in OCD: It’s Never the Answer
  One of the common ways that people deal with anxiety is through avoidance. Afraid to fly? Well then, don’t. A large crowd of people ...
• The Alzheimer’s Family: Helping Caregivers Cope
  If you were asked to name a terminal illness, it is likely that Alzheimer's would not be your first choice.  However, from my own perspective, when you consider that there is no cure for this ...
• 21 Tips for Raising Kids with ADHD When You Have ADHD Too
  Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) tends to run in families, so it’s common for both ...
• Nothing: A Portrait of Insomnia
  From the first sentence, Blake Butler’s poetic voice is clear. He writes: “Into the version of the sky above my house one afternoon when I was twelve, the nearby high school released a flood of ...
• After Schizophrenia
  I was not sure what to expect when I first opened Margaret Hawkins’ After Schizophrenia. Memoirs about people suffering from mental illness are quite common these days and I was interested to see if the ...
• What a Life Can Be
  In “What a Life Can Be: One Therapist’s Take on Schizo-Affective Disorder,” Carolyn Dobbins, PhD offers an insightful look into the evolution of a successful mental health professional with a challenging diagnosis:  schizo-affective disorder.  In an ...
• The Truth About Animal-Assisted Therapy
  You know the impact your pet has on your life. But can the same sense of healing, security and unconditional love that ...
• Courage and Limits with Your Teen
  This column uses a story based on a real-life situation in therapy to represent both the teen and parent viewpoints on ...
• Are You SAD This Winter? Coping with Seasonal Affective Disorder
  Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) goes beyond the winter blues. It goes beyond feeling tired or sad or ...
• The Media and Mental Illness: The Good, the Bad and the Ridiculous
  When portraying mental illness and psychotherapy, the media tends to get it wrong -- ...
• Competing Family Loyalties in the Holiday Season
  The holidays are ripe for unearthing family dramas, often featuring a popular story line about competing loyalties. Though there are ...
• ‘Tis the Season to Regress
  What is it that makes perfectly reasonable adults start to act like teenagers as soon as they hit their parents’ front door? ...
• The Christmas “Not To-Do” List
  ‘Tis the season for list-making: Lists of gifts to buy. Lists of cards to send. Lists of people to see and things ...
• Find the Upside of the Down Times
  Some people have all the bad luck, and by any measure Rob Pennington, author of Find the Upside of the Down Times, has had more than his fair share. He was shot in the chest, ...
• Sexual Trauma: A Challenge Not Insanity
  Dr. K. Elan Jung’s Sexual Trauma: A Challenge Not Insanity is a strong reference, written for a wide audience including physicians, therapists, victims and the general layperson.  Dr. Jung is a practicing psychiatrist who has ...
• Clinicians on the Couch: 10 Questions with Therapist Julie Hanks
  Want to get a glimpse into a therapist’s world? Learn what therapy is really like? And get some wise advice ...
• Brave Girl Eating: A Family’s Struggle with Anorexia
  Between three and six percent of all teens struggle with some type of eating disorder, be it bulimia, binge eating, or anorexia. Because these illnesses involve eating, they seem to take a blow at family ...