General Articles

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• Personifying OCD: An Effective Recovery Tool
  My son Dan’s obsessive-compulsive disorder became so severe during the end of his freshman year of college that he could ...
• How’s Your Family Really Doing? 10 Keys to a Happy Loving Family
  When you think about it, who better to write a book about the wellness of a family than a husband and wife team who are mental health professionals and parents of two children?  Don MacMannis, ...
• Can You Benefit from EMDR Therapy?
  EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) therapy has been declared an effective form of trauma treatment ...
• Relationship Tips for Those Rocky First Few Years of Marriage
  Many couples assume that if you live together, ...
• Disciplining Older Teenagers
  Beer cans in a closet, pot in a glove compartment, groundings or curfews ignored, abusive language... not necessarily ...
• Tips for Successful Toilet Training
  Few issues in child-rearing create as much anxiety for mothers and fathers as toilet training. And few issues generate as much ...
• Depression: A Guide for the Newly Diagnosed
  Depression is one of the most common forms of mental illness, yet at the same time also one of the most poorly understood. Most people have felt emotionally depressed at some point in their life. ...
• Being a Grownup When Your Kid Hates You
  This column tells a story based on a composite of real-life situations in therapy to represent both teen and ...
• 7 Reasons to Seek Marriage Counseling
  Marriage rates supposedly are on the decline. While it's an oft-repeated statistic that 50 percent of first marriages end in ...
• Anger Antidotes: How Not to Lose Your S#&!
  When you start reading a new book, it’s with a sense of anticipation.  What can I learn from reading this book? Will the author enlighten me or help me see the world in a new ...
• Revisiting a School Program that Rescued ‘Losers’
  A few years ago, I read Dr. Bob Brooks’ monthly article which focused on one of his favorite themes: schools ...
• The Blueprint for a Sucessful Practice: Methods of Marketing Your Business and Increasing Your Bottom Line
  The Blueprint for a Successful Practice by Gina Spielman is a book for people who have decided to take the plunge and start their own business. Although Spielman is a licensed clinical social worker ...
• Increasing Treatment Adherence in Schizophrenia
  "Adherence is one of the most important issues in illness management,” according to Dawn I. Velligan, ...
• The Myth of the High Rate of Divorce
  A few years ago, my wife and I celebrated our 25th anniversary. It is the second ...
• Therapists Spill: The Best Advice I’ve Received On Living a Meaningful Life
  We all want to lead a life with some sort of meaning. What that meaning ...
• How Family and Friends Can Aid Mental Health Recovery
  Recovering from mental illness is terrifying and exhausting, both for the person diagnosed and those who ...
• When Crisis Becomes Chronic: What to do When Friendships Fade
  It’s a common experience. Something goes wrong in ...
• Reflections on Grass Root Changes in Educating Children
  A few years ago, I was sitting at my desk this morning and reviewing several articles ...
• iDisorder: Understanding Our Obsession with Technology and Overcoming Its Hold on Us
  One of Dr. Larry Rosen’s friends feels he must be continuously connected to his electronic devices. If he is in a conversation that is more than 15 minutes long, “he excuses himself to go to ...
• Dealing with Difficult People
  In an article titled “Becoming Adept at Dealing with Difficult People and Avoiding Conflict,” Elizabeth Scott states people should “work to maintain ...
• Schools Fail to Educate at Least 30 Percent of Our Students
  “No Child Left Behind” is a joke. Most of the ...
• What You Need to Know About Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
  Most women would say they have PMS. Inevitably, once ...
• Parents Gone Wild at Easter Egg Hunt
  The headline on our local paper reads, “A few rotten eggs spoil Easter Hunt.” Parents, who were supposed to ...
• The Now Effect: How This Moment Can Change the Rest of Your Life
  "The psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl said, ‘In between stimulus and response there is a space, in that space lies our power to choose our response, in our response lies our growth and our ...
• The Escape of Sigmund Freud
  Eighty years old, sick with cancer, and reeling from the Nazis' takeover of his beloved Vienna, Sigmund Freud, in 1936, faced a harsh reality: he had to leave. But where would he go, and how ...