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The Benefits of Family Therapy: Strengthening Bonds and Building Resilience

Family relationships can have a profound effect on mental health, behavior, as well as the physical heath of a child. Parental attachment, for example, is predictive of numerous developmental outcomes in children, such as general well-being, self-esteem, social competence with…

NormanApril 8, 2024

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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…

NormanDecember 11, 2023

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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…

NormanDecember 11, 2023

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What Are Examples Of Reasonable Mind DBT In Child?

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based psychotherapy treatment that was originally developed by Psychologist Marsha M. Linehan, in the late 1980s, to help better treat chronically suicidal individuals diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD). It is founded on the…

NormanNovember 22, 2023

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Treatment Issues Of Child Patients Who Engage In Power Struggles

Mental health treatment can be challenging enough without the innate pushback that is highly common among young patients. This phenomenon can be partially attributed to brain development. The pre-frontal cortex is the area of the brain that governs one’s reasoning,…

NormanJune 3, 2023

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Cause Is Not Everything In Mental Illness For Child

Mental illness, as defined by the American Psychiatric Association, encompasses various “health conditions involving changes in emotion, thinking or behavior (or a combination of these).” There are a several different types of mental illness that affect the adolescent population in…

NormanJune 1, 2023

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Responding To The Reluctant Child Patient in Rehabilitation

Typical child development, as explained by developmental experts, is characterized by significant increases in novelty-seeking, risk-taking and peer-directed social interactions, which foster the development of adult independence, but generally occur more rapidly than the development of executive and regulatory skills.…

NormanMay 2, 2023

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Delivering More Effective Exposure Therapy In CBT For Adolescents

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a structured, short-term, goal-oriented form of talk therapy. Positive Psychology further explains CBT as a “psycho-social intervention that focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts, beliefs, attitudes and behaviors, improve emotional regulation and create a suite of…

NormanApril 3, 2023

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Understanding Psychotherapy for Preteen And How It Works

Pre-adolescence, also known as the preteen or “tween” years, can be loosely defined as the years between eight or nine to twelve or thirteen. The Child Mind Institute asserts that this is a time in a child’s life where monumental…

NormanApril 3, 2023

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The Most Common Types of Counseling

The National Alliance on Mental Illness reports that approximately 44 million Americans experience some form of mental illness in any given year, but only about half of them receive treatment. Mental health counselors are licensed professionals who, as explained by Healthline, “treat…

NormanFebruary 17, 2023