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Core Elements in Responding to Mental Health Crises

…panel of mental health professionals and advocacy leaders, including some who have experienced serious mental illness themselves. The goal is to provide pertinent information for the variety of interveners who come in contact with people who are experiencing serious emotional or mental health related crises. The course content would be appropriate for professionals in such settings as hospital emergency room departments, psychiatric, mental healt…

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6 Things You Should Know About Depression

…tand that people who suffer from depression can’t just feel better. People experiencing a major depression really need professional treatment. Depression is a mind/body issue and should be treated with the same self-compassion and treatment-seeking with which we would treat any major illness. Different forms of therapy and/or medications work for different people. According to the American Psychological Association (APA), psychotherapy can benefit…

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Achieving Sexual Intimacy

…How do our critical thoughts and self-conscious attitudes prevent us from getting close physically? Psychologist Dr. Lisa Firestone talks about the thought processes that can get in the way of experiencing sexual intimacy and ways of overcoming these distancing patterns….

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How to Approach Learning Challenges with your Child

…self often includes doubt and shame. Identification of difficulties after experiencing academic challenges offers a way to get back on track to achieve potential. However, the best case scenario is getting ahead of the curve. Pinpointing lagging skills, and processing challenges, learning disabilities or attention challenges provides a way to focus on discrete difficulties and find tools to navigate around or through them. The most important bene…

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The Over-Parenting Syndrome

…heir true vulnerability and love. Unfortunately, to protect ourselves from experiencing poignant feelings and fears of future loss, we become somewhat removed and can be emotionally distant from our children. One solution to the problem of “helicopter parenting” is to educate parents about these tendencies, which are present in everyone. PsychAlive provides opportunities for parents to learn about themselves and their relationship with their child…

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Keeping depression at bay: Embracing new purpose during the holiday

…the life altering experiences of the year (a new addition to the family, a relationship, a spiritual experience, a new job, a new found confidence, etc.). I realized just how “spiritual” the holiday season is and I’ve made it a goal of mine each season to reflect on what truly matters. Material gain only lasts until your very last breath on earth. Reflection is a psychological experience, a place where hope and insight can be fostered. The mundane…

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A New Year’s Resolution Worth Making

…rdiovascular disease (CVD) who spent time helping others had lower odds of experiencing a new CVD event or dying within two years. These individuals also experienced fewer depressive symptoms. With considerable mental and physical rewards, it’s important to find ways to incorporate generosity into our lives. First, we should note that generosity is not about giving things. It’s about being giving of ourselves. It’s about shifting our focus outward…

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VIDEO: Dr. Peter Levine on Helping Children who Experience Trauma

…who experience trauma. Dr. Peter A. Levine: Our organization, the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute, has done a lot of work in areas where there have been tremendous natural disasters — earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, hurricanes. And we’ve worked with the children there. And in so many cases where they had them relive these and talk about these things, they were clearly re-traumatized. So we developed different kinds of games where they could…

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VIDEO: Dr. Kirk Schneider – What is Awe?

…to more fully tap this dimension it really should be a lifetime process of experiencing this sense of humility and wonder, adventure at every moment if one is able — at least that’s the challenge, it seems to me. It’s, it’s really a powerful way of lifting us out of the narrow identifications that we get into in living. And we certainly see this with our clients constantly. You know, the negative judgments, the judgments that we’re ugly or we’re t…

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VIDEO: Dr. Kirk Schneider – Awe and the Implications for Conducting Therapy

…g the “therapist” stay with that and work with what comes up in him or her, as well as the client. I mean, there’s no substitute for actually experiencing the challenge, whatever it is in the moment….

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