What is Emotional Abandonment? Many people don’t realize that they’re feeling emotionally abandoned or that they did as a child. They may ...
Symptoms of Teen Substance Abuse Addiction is defined as the continued use of a mood-altering substance or behavior despite adverse consequences, or a neurological impairment leading to ...
Dosed: The Medication Generation Grows Up What happens when the use of psychotropic drugs in children becomes part of everyday life? If you were a child or raised children in the United States in the last 20 or 30 years, you ...
Brainpower Smart Study The term “studying” brings to mind the all-too-familiar caffeine-riddled cramming sessions, reading and highlighting random sections of a textbook the night before the big test. The student just wants to remember enough facts to score ...
OCD and Transitions in Life May and June are often months of transition. Within my own family, my son Dan graduated college last week and my daughter ...
Teens Need A PR Director The long-standing popular image of teenagers is that they are rebellious, self-centered, risk-taking, and don't want anything to do with their ...
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 ...
Money and Your Children From small allowances for young children to bank accounts and credit cards for college students, parents have many questions and ...
Community, Libraries and Mental Health Unlike his colleague Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler -- another early 20th century psychologist -- wasn’t interested in analyzing ...
