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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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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

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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…

NormanNovember 30, 2023

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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…

NormanNovember 30, 2023

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The 5 Key Components of Social And Emotional Learning For Teens

Social and emotional learning (SEL), according to the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), is “the process through which all young people and adults acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to develop healthy identities, manage emotions…

NormanNovember 22, 2023