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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]