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Helping Someone with an Eating Disorder? …Follow the Research

…eatments for children and adolescents, parents are given a more supportive role. If you are the parent of an adolescent or child with an eating disorder, discuss your role with the treatment team. Eating disorders take incredible persistence and strength to overcome. If you are a caregiver or supporter of someone with one of these illnesses, stay empowered to help by using research as your guide. Whether you are a partner, friend or family member,…

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Minding the Brain by Daniel Siegel, M.D.

…s. However, this uniquely human storytelling ability also depends upon the development of the highest part of the brain, the cortex. THE CORTEX The outer layer, or “bark,” of the brain is the cortex. It is sometimes called the “new mammalian” brain or neocortex because it expanded greatly with the appearance of primates— and most especially with the emergence of human beings. The cortex creates more intricate firing patterns that represent the thr…

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What You Need to Know About Disciplining Your Child

…making unnecessary restrictions, rules or standards. 2) Act as a positive role model. 3) Reward rather than punish. 4) Avoid cynical, judgmental attitudes that reinforce a child’s sense of badness. 5) Attempt to control children’s acting out of hostile, manipulative behavior 1) Don’t make unnecessary restrictions or rules Many parents mistakenly believe that to provide a child with structure, a parent must make a lot of rules. However, unnecessar…

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Anxious Attachment: Understanding Insecure Anxious Attachment

…n that the quality of the relationship between the parents plays a central role in the transmission of specific attachment patterns from one generation to the next. Therefore, a child imitates the ambivalent/anxious attachment strategies of their parent. In addition, research has also found that parents’ child-rearing practices tend to reflect the specific attachment pattern they developed as children with their parents. Thus, parents who grew up…

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Top 10 Effective Communication Techniques for Couples

…little less traditional. He was very old-fashioned in his ideas of women’s roles in marriage. He never washed a dish or did any housework. Janet worked. She and Bob just had a new baby. Janet felt she needed more help from Bob. He did not agree. Janet went to Bob’s father for assistance. He talked with Bob and shared his own experiences of shifting his views of the role of a man in the family. Afterward, Bob started helping out. In conclusion, eff…

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Why Women Find it Diffiicult to Attach to Pleasure

…variety of topics including feminism, patriarchy, relationships, pleasure, parenting, and psychotherapy. She dispels myths regarding feminism that have pervaded both professional discourse and popular media for the past three decades, describing how “patriarchy creates a rift in the psyche, dividing everyone apart from themselves.” She discusses relationships and parenting, including the dynamics of mother-son and mother-daughter relationships. Fi…

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How Do People Become Violent and How Do They Get Better?

…perspective on the developmental impact of trauma on child and adolescent development. Describe the role of “cognitive” and “behavioral” components in gender-related differences in violent behavior among children and adolescents. Apply three pathways to reducing youth violence. Ordering Information Once the webinar has taken place, all registrants will be emailed a full video recording of the presentation along with all presentation materials. Op…

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Gut Health Linked to Bipolar Disorder?

…’s ability to modulate behavior and mood. “There is growing evidence for a role of the gut microbiome in mental health and one of the major factors that influences the gut microbiome is diet,” Evans told PsyPost. While scientists still have a lot to learn — including what role psychiatric medicine plays in influencing the gut microbiome, how medication may interact with dietary nutrients, how healthy fats may improve the microbiome, how other ment…

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Qualities of an Ideal Therapist

…mfortable enough to be open and self-revealing. He or she would serve as a role model for the client, demonstrating through his or her responses and behavior, how to struggle against destructive forces within the personality and how to live less defensively. The “ideal” therapist would be a person of unusual honesty and integrity. This is not simply a matter of trying to tell the truth: the therapist must have developed considerable self-knowledge…

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Dr. Sheldon Solomon on the Current Philosophical Climate in the United States: Exclusive Interview

…the face of death. In a lively and candid style, Dr. Solomon discusses the development of Terror Management Theory, the ways in which people form defenses against death anxiety and the concept of life affirming death awareness, arguing that we can “accept the reality of the human condition and parlay that into bringing out the best in us. ” He also addresses the societal effects of death awareness, including the social nature of human beings, the…

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