Moving and Young Children Moving day. Such excitement! Such distress! An event nearly every family experiences a few times, if not more. The impact on ...
White Elephants As I cried, I wanted to believe it was the alcohol that induced Mom’s words. I had to believe it was the alcohol. I don’t want them. The words rang in my ears. That’s the ...
Symptoms of Codependency The term codependency has been around for almost four decades. Although it originally applied to spouses of alcoholics, first called co-alcoholics, researchers revealed that the ...
Infant Feeding Methods and Maternal Sleep and Sleepiness The choice to breastfeed an infant is intensely personal. Yet because of the well established health and psychological benefits of breastfeeding for both the mother and ...
A Princess and Her Garden: A Fable of Awakening and Arrival You thought of Aesop when you read the subtitle, didn't you? The story in this book is not your typical Aesop's fable. Not by a long shot. In fact, Aesop's got nothing on the author ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
