Caregivers Articles

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• Parenting after Traumatic Events: Ways to Support Children
  One of the most important messages for parents about traumatic experiences—such as car accidents, medical trauma, exposure to violence, ...
• The Challenge of Children with Special Needs
  Labels abound, some of them distasteful, some inaccurate, some just in vogue, others useful to understanding and planning. I ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Private Practice Made Simple
  There are plenty of books and websites out there offering advice to mental health professionals who want to know how to establish their own private practice. With this new release Randy J. Paterson, PhD offers ...
• Keeping Your Child in Mind
  A 3-year-old is happily playing on the floor near his mommy’s feet as she works on her laptop.  Unknowingly, she knocks a ballpoint pen onto the floor.  The little boy picks up the ballpoint pen, ...
• Talking to Families about Mental Illness: What Clinicians Need to Know
  When an individual is diagnosed with a mental disorder, that person's family begins what is often a lifetime of decisions about treatment and care affecting everyone. "Finding the balance between the sometimes conflicting needs of ...
• Five Ways To Create a Secure Attachment with Your Baby, Without Sharing Your Bed
  After giving birth the first time, I stayed home for three months, ...
• Daddies Do Make A Difference
  “Congratulations on your wife’s pregnancy,” I said to an acquaintance I ran into in the parking lot at the grocery store. ...
• Constancy, Care and Courage: The 3 Cs of Successful Fathering
  Fathers Day is coming around again. On the third Sunday of June in the U.S., ...
• What to Do When You Think Someone is Suicidal
  Suicide is the 11th leading cause of death in the U.S., and the third leading cause ...
• 15 Ways To Support a Loved One with Serious Mental Illness
  Supporting a loved one with mental illness presents many challenges. But one of them ...
• Book Review: Mortal Bonds
  Losing one parent is devastating. But losing both parents within 13 days of each other? In his eBook memoir, Mortal Bonds, John Tsilimparis recounts his parents’ difficult deaths, his father from various health conditions and ...
• How We Age: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Growing Old
  As anyone who has ever cared for an elderly person can attest, time takes its role in the aging process very seriously.  For caregivers, be they family members or medical professionals, finding a way to ...
• Parenting As a Team When You’re Living Apart
  Perhaps your wife or husband is deployed. Or maybe one of you had to take a job in ...
• Understanding and Managing Your Controlling Mother
  You are 35 years old and your mom is still trying to run your life. She doesn’t approve of your boyfriend. She thinks your best ...
• Family Involvement is Important in Substance Abuse Treatment
  For family and friends of drug- or alcohol-addicted individuals, addressing the addiction is one of the most difficult ...
• Understanding and Managing Your Controlling Mother
  You are 35 years old and your mom is still trying to run your life. She ...
• The Naked Bird Watcher, The Snow Globe Journals, and To Walk on Eggshells
  Bipolar disorder is an isolating disease that is difficult to describe and almost impossible to understand from the outside. Its relentless ups and downs create a crushing defeat in the lives of both sufferers and ...
• Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder
  Valerie Porr, M.A. understands intimately the ramifications of a family member suffering from borderline personality disorder (BPD).  It was this experience and curiosity that led her to attend a lecture by Marsha Linehan, PhD, creator ...
• Alzheimer’s and Coping with the Holidays
  The holiday season is often a time that many of us look forward for visiting and reconnecting with family and friends. Sometimes, however, this season can be sad ...
• The Link Between Vaccines and Autism: True or False?
  Does vaccination increase the likelihood of autism? One hypothesis is that vaccination in general, MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) virus live vaccine, and vaccines that contain mercury cause autism. Actress Jenny McCarthy is one of ...
• My Trip to the ER: Attention Must Be Paid
  I'm a psych patient. My primary diagnosis is bipolar II, but there’s a little anxiety, PTSD and other stuff ...
• Supporting Individuals with Depression: The Importance of Self-Care
  Depression is a disorder that affects millions of people. While we all experience ups and downs, depression is different. Often accompanied ...
• The Pocket Therapist
  Therapists are an unusual bunch.  We spend all day listening, cautioning, affirming, and putting out fires with clients who are feeling out of control, suicidal, despairing, or wildly stress-ridden.  By the end of ...