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Let’s Talk About Feelings: Exploring Emotions through Play Therapy Emotions-therapyengage treatmentmental health

Let’s Talk About Feelings: Exploring Emotions through Play Therapy

Although it is common to use the terms “feelings” and “emotions” interchangeably, both have distinct meanings despite imparting interconnective relativity with one another. According to the American Psychological Association (APA) emotions are complex reaction patterns that arise in an individual due to…
Norman
February 8, 2024
What Methods Do Behavioral Therapists Use For Children and Adolescents? Adolescents-teensengage treatmentmental health

What Methods Do Behavioral Therapists Use For Children and Adolescents?

Behavior therapy, as defined by the American Psychological Association (APA), is “a form of psychotherapy that applies the principles of learning, operant conditioning, and classical conditioning to eliminate symptoms and modify ineffective or maladaptive patterns of behavior. The focus of this therapy…
Norman
February 8, 2024
How Does Biological Factors Affect Cognitive Development For Teens? Cognitive-teensengage treatmentmental health

How Does Biological Factors Affect Cognitive Development For Teens?

Cognitive development encompasses “many different skills developing at different rates along various trajectories toward unique developmental endpoints and interacting and integrating with one another to produce complex behavior.” It represents changes in one’s ability to think, reason, and extract meaning from experiences encountered in…
Norman
December 11, 2023
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The 3 Major Assumptions Explained For Children In Cognitive Psychology

The American Psychological Association explains cognitive psychology as “the branch of psychology that explores the operation of mental processes related to perceiving, attending, thinking, language, and memory, mainly through inferences from behavior.” Child development psychologist Jean Piaget developed the first cognitive psychology theories in…
Norman
December 11, 2023
What Is Better CBT or Psychoanalysis For Adolescents? Psychoanalysis- For-AdolescentsDBTengage treatmentmental health

What Is Better CBT or Psychoanalysis For Adolescents?

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) was developed in the 1960s by psychiatrist, Aaron Beck. CBT is a structured, short-term, goal-oriented form of psychotherapy that “targets multiple areas of potential vulnerability (e.g., cognitive, behavioral, affective) with developmentally-guided strategies and traverses multiple intervention pathways.” Young people enter…
Norman
December 11, 2023
Types Of Engage Therapy To Know and How To Find The Best One For Your Preteen engage treatmentmental health

Types Of Engage Therapy To Know and How To Find The Best One For Your Preteen

In mental health sciences, Positive Psychology explains that engagement “denotes all the efforts made during therapy, right from the intake sessions, to achieve the desired results.” Client engagement reflects the quality of the interaction, the collaborative nature of developing tasks and treatment goals, and…
Norman
November 30, 2023
What Are The Five 5 Social And Emotional Competencies For Children and Adolescents? engage treatmentmental health

What Are The Five 5 Social And Emotional Competencies For Children and Adolescents?

Social and emotional competence is described as the processes by which children and adolescents “apply knowledge, attitudes and skills in order to understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships,…
Norman
November 30, 2023

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