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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
The 3 Major Assumptions Explained For Children In Cognitive Psychology Children-Cognitive-PsychologyDBTengage treatmentmental health

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