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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

August 4, 2011 By Dr. Greg Hamlin

Evesdropping on Parenting Classes: How to Deal with Anger When Your Child has an Attitude

Parents often wonder how to deal with anger (yours or your child's anger) when you ask them to do something reasonable and you get back a real attitude.  You know, the rolling of the eyes, the sign of contempt.  Should you address the your child's attitude and risk of scene, or should you let the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Steps for Change Archive Tagged With: how to deal with anger, parenting classes

February 26, 2011 By Dr. Greg Hamlin

A Missing Lesson from the Parenting Class: Helping Your Child Through the Stages of Bereavement

What You Probably Won't Learn in a Parenting Class A mom whose husband has recently died has a tough challenge.  She has to reinvent her life right at the moment that she wonders if life is worth living.  Often it is her children that keep her going.  But it's also true that each of her children … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Steps for Change Archive Tagged With: parenting class, stages of bereavement, stages of grief

January 28, 2011 By Dr. Greg Hamlin

Symptoms of Stress: A List of 15 Lens Distortions that Skew Our Perspective on Life

We all know that our eyes have lenses through which we see the world.  But many people don't think about the fact that our brain is also a lens through which we interpret the meaning of what we see with our eyes and hear with our ears.  The symptoms of stress grow up like weeds when our thought … [Read more...]

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January 21, 2011 By Dr. Greg Hamlin

Communication Skill: The Easiest Tip Ever Offered by Life Coaches for Marriage Communication

This Tip is Worth Exactly $4,678.89 in Paid Sessions with the Best Life Coaches: This may be the simplest technique for improving your marriage communication skill that has ever been offered by life coaches or therapists. Life Coaches' Tip:  Use a simple numeric scale to communicate your needs and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Steps for Change Archive Tagged With: communication skill, life coaches, marriage councelling

January 5, 2011 By Dr. Greg Hamlin

About Steps for Change

Over the years I have had the privilage of seeing people take courageous steps to make their lives more satisfying and their relationships energized by new skills and attitudes.  As a psychologist I have been able to see people come alive as the signs and … [Read more...]

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October 29, 2010 By Dr. Greg Hamlin

EMDR Therapy and Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome

Eye-Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy EMDR therapy has become increasing popular  in recent years because both clinicians and researchers are seeing it's effectiveness in treating post traumatic stress syndrome.  Many people are curious about it.  In order to understand it better, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Steps for Change Archive Tagged With: anxiety disorder, emdr therapy, post traumatic stress syndrome, stress symptoms

May 2, 2010 By Dr. Greg Hamlin

Which Came First, Panic Attacks and Anxiety or Depression?

Various forms of panic attacks and anxiety conspire with clinical depression in various ways.  The panic attacks and anxiety issues can be primary and causing a secondary condition of clinical depression. But it can also go the other way:  The clinical depression can be the primary condition that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Steps for Change Archive Tagged With: panic attacks and anxiety

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