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How to Help Your Child Get Things Done (Without a Fight)

…r child learn how to do them anyway. This is a critical part of growth and development. We want our children to manage, develop grit, build resilience, and figure out how to do things that are boring, difficult, or not their preference. This can be a tall order. It may be easier to just get through a rough patch by fixing or punishing, but this approach doesn’t prevent the next episode. Instead of being consumed by the immediate problem, it is imp…

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Challenging the Fantasy Bond

…ave contributed significantly to my understanding of human behavior. These developments have further convinced me of the value of revising The Fantasy Bond to include the evolution in my own thinking, as well as corroborative research in related disciplines. This edition is especially timely because it identifies significant psychological and social factors, based on people’s defensive responses to existential fears, that contribute to malignant p…

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Disorganized Attachment: How Disorganized Attachments Form & How They Can Be Healed

…rowing up. They may struggle in their relationships or friendships or when parenting their own children. Their social lives may further be affected, as people with secure attachments tend to get on better throughout their development. Children with secure attachment are often treated better be peers and even teachers in school. On the other hand those with disorganized attachment, because they struggle with poor social or emotional regulation skil…

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Panic Attacks: What You Need to Know

…owne, M. O., Piazza, M. , Posada‐Villa, J. , Torres, Y. , ten Have, M. L., Kessler, R. C. and Scott, K. M. (2016), Cross‐national epidemiology of panic disorder and panic attacks in the world mental health surveys. Depress Anxiety, 33: 1155-1177. doi:10.1002/da.22572 Brown, L. A., Lebeau, R., Liao, B., Niles, A. N., Glenn, D., & Craske, M. G. (2016). A comparison of the nature and correlates of panic attacks in the context of Panic Disorder and So…

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Substance Abuse and the Teenage Mind

…e Spans More Years Than Most People Realize Adolescence starts at about age 11 in girls, 12½ in boys, and continues into a person’s mid-20s. The brain changes dramatically during this time and does not fully develop until age 27. Brain remodeling refers to the process of physical and neurological transformation. The body creates more neurons than it needs in childhood. The unneeded ones die off naturally — a process of synaptic pruning. A performa…

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The Intersection of Health and Justice: Views from the Bench

…ve never had a problem with this. You need to break out of the traditional role. When you drive people to the margins of society in life through the stigma of mental illness, it has disastrous consequences for individuals and their families. When a person with authority, and I guess as a judge that is me, talks one-on-one in close contact with someone with mental illness, the stigma goes away. This builds a community in the court room.” Brooklyn,…

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Creating Meaning: On the Role of Death in Life

    In this Webinar: This Webinar will introduce an overview of Terror Management Theory (TMT). TMT posits that the juxtaposition of an inclination toward self-preservation with the highly developed intellectual abilities that make humans aware of their vulnerabilities and inevitable death creates the potential for paralyzing terror. One of the most important functions of cultural worldviews is to manage the terror associated with death awareness…

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

Watch an excerpt from PsychAlive’s interview with Dr. Allan Schore. Dr. Allan Schore discusses the non-verbal communications critical to affecting outcomes in therapy with suicidal patients. Dr. Allan Schore: Just for the record, we’re not talking here about anxiety and guilt. Anxiety and guilt are kind of left (brain). We’re talking about affects which are, have signatures in the autonomic nervous system, which trigger an HPA response, which tri…

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Laughing, social laughter, benefits of laughing

Laugh it Up: Why Laughing Brings Us Closer Together

…tions), new information reveals that laughing may actually play a critical role in buffering an individual from the effects of physiological and psychological stress. The physical act of laughing is no joke according to Dr. Robin Dunbar, who conducted a series of experiments to determine the specific role of relaxed social laughter on an individual’s well being. Scientists know that the act of laughing releases endorphins into the brain that provi…

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The Role of Attention in Sustaining a Mindful and Purposeful Lifestyle

…Watch Now See slides from the webinar HERE.   Read more about The Gift of Presence…

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