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The Magic of Art Therapy: Helping Children Express Themselves

Art therapy is a therapeutic technique that is rooted in the notion that creativity and creative expression can foster healing and promote mental well-being. The American Art Therapy Association defines art therapy as “an integrative mental health and human services…

NormanFebruary 8, 2024

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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…

NormanFebruary 8, 2024

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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…

NormanFebruary 8, 2024

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Core Conditions That Need To Form A Therapeutic Relationship For Preteen

The therapeutic relationship, or the alliance built between professional care giver and care receiver, is known to be the strongest predictor of treatment outcome, regardless of which intervention model or approach is utilized. The function of therapeutic relationships is unique…

NormanFebruary 8, 2024

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The Environmental Factors That Influence Child Development

Child development refers to the “sequence of physical, language, thought and emotional changes that occur in a child from birth to the beginning of adulthood.” There are a wide variety of factors, both environmental and biological, that can influence child…

NormanDecember 14, 2023

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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…

NormanDecember 11, 2023

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The Most Effective Kind Of Adolescent Psychotherapy

Adolescent psychotherapy is a form of psychiatric treatment that can be effective in treating a wide range of issues from emotional and behavioral problems in young children, to mental health disorders in adolescents and young adults. There are several types…

NormanDecember 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…

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 Is Combination Therapy In Child Mental Health?

Mental health encompasses one’s emotional, psychological, and social wellbeing, and is an essential element of overall health. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explain that “mental disorders among children are described as serious changes in the way children…

NormanDecember 11, 2023