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October 20, 2012 By Dr. Greg Hamlin

Anger Management Worksheets: This Skill Makes Other Skills Easier to Learn

Anger Management Worksheets:  This Skill Makes Other Skills Easier to Learn

Purpose of This Anger Management Worksheet Learning to control one's anger is not a trivial matter.  I believe it is easier to acquire anger management skills by breaking them down into small micro skills.  Baby steps.  Anger management worksheets are tools designed to learn these "micro" skills … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Anger Management Worksheets Tagged With: 12 Skills of Honest Optimism, anger management tools, anger management worksheet, anger management worksheets, Skill 2

October 18, 2012 By Dr. Greg Hamlin

Anger Management Definitions and Anger Management Worksheets

Anger Management Definitions and Anger Management Worksheets

Here is a brief definition of anger management. In the big picture of things, depression and anger each cause the other as well as result from each other.  Breaking this vicious cycle often means that depression has to be treated before out-of-control anger can be tamed.  However, anger often … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Anger Management Worksheets Tagged With: anger management worksheets, definition of anger management, what is anger management?

October 2, 2012 By Dr. Greg Hamlin

Anger Management Worksheets: Correcting Your Anger Lens

Anger Management Worksheets:  Correcting Your Anger Lens

I have just created a new worksheet that begins a series of anger management worksheets based on the 12 Skills of Honest Optimism.  The main concept is that any episode of anger usually has a driving thought.  If the anger is out of proportion to the situation, the driving thought is usually … [Read more...]

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January 6, 2012 By Dr. Greg Hamlin

Parenting Communication Skills Examples: How to Help Someone with Depression

Communication Skills Examples in Parenting If you are a parent of a teen who has suffered from depression, then it's important to know what to do after the worst is behind you.  So much has been written about what to do for your depressed teen, how to help someone with depression, and tips to keep … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Steps for Change Archive Tagged With: clinical depression symptoms, communication skills examples, helping someone with depression, how to help someone with depression, symptoms of depression, teenage depression, treatment for depression

December 15, 2011 By Dr. Greg Hamlin

OCD Disorder: Clinical Depression Symptoms Fly Free with the Frequent Flyers…Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Symptoms

OCD Disorder Has Great Diversity Obsessive compulsive disorder symptoms are often undiagnosed by mental health professionals.  This is due to the nearly countless forms that OCD disorder can take.  The variety of ways that OCD disorder can present itself is enormous.  Obsessive Compulsive Disorder … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Steps for Change Archive Tagged With: anxiety disorder, clinical depression symptoms, obsesive compulsive disorder symptoms, obsessions and compulsions, obsessive compulsive syndrome, OCD, OCD disorder

November 26, 2011 By Dr. Greg Hamlin

How to Develop Communication Skills in Marriage: Basic Rules for Couples to Get Started

How to Develop Communication Skills Rule #1:  Take Responsibility for Your Own Anger There really are ways to learn how to develop communication skills and some of the rules for effective communication are obvious.  For example, in order for a young child to learn to talk, he or she must be able to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Steps for Change Archive Tagged With: how to develop communication skills, how to manage anger, relaxation exercises

November 3, 2011 By Dr. Greg Hamlin

Stress Headaches: Two Layers of Stress Headaches

I want to offer a follow-up thought to my last post about the how to cope with stress.  If you have ever suffered from stress headaches, you may be wondering how the two layer approach applies.  It's difficult to imagine any living organism that doesn't automatically change in some way in response … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Thoughts and Tips Tagged With: stress headaches

November 2, 2011 By Dr. Greg Hamlin

Tips for How to Cope with Stress: Get a Framework That Makes Stress Tips More Practical

Why Learning How to Cope with Stress is Confusing Learning how to cope with stress can be very confusing, but it doesn't have to be.  It's confusing primarily because we don't become interested in learning until we are in the middle of stressful situations.  Who wants to learn about how to cope with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Thoughts and Tips Tagged With: how to cope with stress

October 29, 2011 By Dr. Greg Hamlin

Symptoms of Depression in Men

The symptoms of depression in men often show up in ways that people do not expect.  For example, clinical depression is more frequent among women than men.   Women have more suicide attempts than men.  But among those who attempt suicide, men are more likely to die from their attempt at suicide.   … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Thoughts and Tips Tagged With: symptoms of depression in men

September 12, 2011 By Dr. Greg Hamlin

How to Help Someone with Depression: A Lesson from 9 11 Survivors

What Can the 9 11 Survivors Teach Us About Traumatic Loss? For the thousands of 9 11 survivors yesterday was a very big day.  It was the 10th anniversary of the 9 11 attacks. In the coming days those who participated in memorial events will be unpacking what it means for each of them personally.  … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Anger Management Worksheets Tagged With: 9 11 articles, 9 11 survivors, articles on 9 11, helping someone with depression, how to help someone with depression

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