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Adolescent Suicide: Speaking Up for Our Children

…nts to be employed or supporting family members while they attend school — stressors that can take their toll on these students’ mental health.” She further states that “community colleges don’t have residence life staff who help faculty and staff watch out for signs of student mental illness….” This lack of attention provides the conditions necessary for overlooked mental illness and serious signs of mental health difficulties such as self-injuri…

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Is Our Aversion To Pain Killing Us?

…er. In relation to psychological pain, the only solution to dealing with distressing feelings is to feel them. This is not to say that people cannot benefit from psychotropic medication. This is more to say that the abuse or misuse of drugs by certain individuals prevents them from dealing with feelings that would ultimately allow them to feel better. Each of us should seek to be strong enough to feel our deep-seated pain and to allow it to surfac…

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Is Mental Illness a Bigger Threat to Kids than Physical Illness?

…l ailments can even lead to heightened medical risks. For example, chronic stress has been linked to an increased risk for heart disease. Because the stakes are so high, how we treat these “disabilities” is as important as identifying what causes them in the first place. There are some serious concerns about medicating young children. A study published in August in the Archives of General Psychiatry showed that “antipsychotic treatment has increas…

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VIDEO: Dr. Allan Schore on the Role of Non-Verbal Communication in Treating Suicidal Patients

…deeper within. Ultimately one moves too deeply within, so to speak. Under stress, you can get a collapse of the inner world and then we’re looking at again a suicidal crisis. One other piece on that: it’s been said, and I agree with this, that, essentially, because the right (brain) is setting up so poorly, what you have here is this individual is attempting to live his life or her life in the left hemisphere. And so everything is rational and lo…

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To Listen to a Child

…ntly and sensitively to their child. A parent can cause lasting psychological problems by imparting their own anxiety, fear and frustration onto their child in times of stress. This book teaches parents a healthy way to respond to your child’s natural discomforts, wants and needs….

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Upcoming Free and CE Webinars

…register here Dec. 10 Psychological Hardiness: The Key to Resilience Under Stress Free Webinar Presenter: Salvatore Maddi, Ph.D. 11am – 12pm PST Learn more or register here Watch Archived CE Webinars and Earn CE Credits Online Today If you can’t attend a live event, you can download video recordings of PsychAlive’s CE Webinars. Earn up to 20 CE Credits watching our selection of online presentations. Learn more here. About Lisa Firestone, Ph.D. Dr….

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Music Therapy: The Healing Power of Song

…you your entire life and can really be a source of comfort during times of stress or pain or discomfort.” Philp calls music magic in the way that it strengthens bonds between patients, their families, and other caregivers. Music is therapy, and we use it to celebrate life’s high points as well as heal our lows—like the pain of a broken heart, loss, grief, or confusion. Music can accompany us, like a good friend, through almost any crisis. High-fun…

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In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness

…aw on more than 40 years as a body oriented clinician, parallel studies of stress, biology and recent developments in the neurosciences. He will describe how it is still possible to live life robustly with pleasure and creativity in the face of the most painful assaults to our humanity, as well as in face of the deceptively trivial ones. He will share an evolutionary understanding of the source of trauma to a spiritual dimension of how we, as huma…

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5 Simple Steps to End Any Fight

…ay seem to you in that moment. Then, say something warm and understanding. Stress that it doesn’t really matter who’s right. A recent Baylor University study showed that fights between couples have a lot to do with power. The study revealed that, in a fight, people primarily want their partner to relinquish power. Next, in order of most to least, they want their partner to show investment, to stop adversarial behavior, to communicate more, to give…

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The Importance of Self-Worth

…g academic performance, appearance and approval from others) reported more stress, anger, academic problems and relationship conflicts. They also had higher levels of alcohol and drug use, as well as more symptoms of eating disorders. The same study found that students who based their self-worth on internal sources, not only felt better, they also received higher grades and were less likely to use drugs and alcohol or to develop eating disorders….

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