…onary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family Thrive Knowledge, Instinct, and Self-Understanding: Basic Parenting Tips | By Dr. Tina Bryson D r. Tina Payne Bryson is a psychotherapist at Pediatric and Adolescent Psychology Associates in Arcadia, California, where she sees children and provides parenting consultations. She speaks to parents, educators, and clinicians all…
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…has learned from her years as a couples’ therapist. Shifting her focus to parenting, Dr. Love offers her perspective on how to raise emotionally healthy children. “Parenting is simply about providing love, structure and protection,” she explains, emphasizing that it is important for parents to set limits for their children but not “hover” over them. This DVD is packed with useful information for introspective individuals and mental health profess…
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…that adolescents who disclose to parents are the parents who know. But the developmental finding was that you can increase the likelihood you’ll have a self-disclosing adolescent by establishing in childhood the message, “There’s nothing you could do, there’s nothing you could feel, there’s nothing that could happen to you, that if you told me about it, I would stop loving you.” And that becomes the prevention so that you have a kid who’s confiden…
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…ect loving expressions of children. If the parents have been hurt in their developmental years they will have problems in accepting love and intimacy from their children. Faced with the emotional pain that it causes them, parents will unconsciously distance themselves from their child. 4. If parents have unresolved trauma in their own lives they will tend to be mis-attuned to their children, especially when their children approach periods in their…
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…n our parents or parent-figures had a much more profound impact on us. The Role of the Fantasy Bond As an infant, our parents are literally our key to survival. Their ability, or lack there of, to provide us with a sense of safety, to be attuned to our needs, and to soothe us when we were distressed created the foundation of how we see ourselves, others, and how relationships operate. The strengths and weaknesses they possessed had a powerful effe…
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…mal feeling. If mis-attuned interactions with parents are not sufficiently repaired, the baby experiences a mixture of emotions of fear, shame, rage, sadness, and/or apathy. Research has shown that shame is a primitive emotion strongly associated with parental rejection during the earliest phases of development wherein the infant assimilates a core feeling of being dirty, bad or unlovable Basically, children internalize any hostile or negative att…
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…either supporting a person’s ongoing, optimal sense of self and individual development or as critical or undermining it. As such, unethical actions or behaviors cause damage or pain to people or interfere with their development or fulfillment. Although human rights issues within relationships are rarely considered, they are as relevant to a person’s well-being as food, medical care, and shelter. Most people would say that they strive to behave eth…
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…to a condition of general unhappiness, and interferes with and stifles the development of career and vocational pursuits. Some forms of child abuse are subtle and, while hurtful, may leave no visible scars. I have defined emotional child abuse as damage to the child’s psychological development and emerging personal identity, primarily caused by parents’ or primary caretakers’ immaturity, defended lifestyle, and/or conscious or unconscious aggressi…
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Number of CEs Offered: 6 Cost: See AspiraCE’s Pricing Page for details Event Link: Sign Up Here Identify the central principles of clinical supervision • Become aware of the functions of clinical supervision • Improve standard of practice within your given field • Increase awareness of clinical supervision problems and resources • Increase ability to consider cultural and contextual factors • Increase awareness of legal and ethical issues within…
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…can be an indication that a person may have unresolved trauma, the way to repair it is to make sense of what happened to them. Research shows that when we fail to face and process the large and small traumas of our past, we can become stuck in our pain and easily triggered, often without knowing why, into a reactive state by incidents in our present that bring up feelings from our past. Creating a coherent narrative can therefore be key component…
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