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6 Strategies For Improving Your Child Mental & Emotional Health

Mental health refers to emotional, cognitive, and behavioral well-being. The World Health Organization (WHO) explains mental health as “a state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life,…

NormanSeptember 22, 2023

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What Role Does Effective Communication Play In Building Successful Therapeutic Relationship?

The therapeutic relationship, or therapeutic alliance, refers to the purposeful collaborative relationship between the therapist and the client. It is a critical component of effective psychotherapy, and the quality of this relationship is an indicator of treatment outcome. While there…

NormanAugust 22, 2023

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What Are Some Therapeutic Communication Techniques For Adolescents?

Communication encompasses both verbal and non-verbal cues, and is fundamental to effective adolescent psychotherapy. Adolescents often have a difficult time accurately articulating their emotions, which can make communicating with young people rather complicated. When working with adolescents, mental health professionals…

NormanAugust 14, 2023

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What Are The Three Most Important Factors For Adolescents Therapy To Be Effective?

A long history in the field of psychotherapy theory, research, and practice has been dedicated to distinguishing which common factors, or characteristics that are present across psychotherapies, are paramount to fostering positive psychotherapy results with adolescents. Empirical evidence identifies the following…

NormanAugust 14, 2023

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What Is The Therapeutic Relationship In Psychotherapy For Children and Adolescents?

Sigmund Freud hypothesized that the relationship between therapist and patient was a key component of effective treatment. Research has since proven that the quality of this relationship is the strongest predictor of whether therapy, including child psychotherapy, is successful. Child…

NormanAugust 14, 2023

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What Is The Most Common Mental Illness In US Children?

Mental illness is an umbrella term that encompasses distinct diagnosable mental health ailments, disorders, diseases, and conditions, that involve changes in emotion, thinking or behavior (or a combination of these). The Mayo Clinic explains that mental health disorders in children…

NormanAugust 14, 2023

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Worsening Mental Health Problems in Children

Mental health encompasses one’s emotional, psychological, and social wellbeing, and is an essential component of overall health. Mental health problems in children include a wide breadth of conditions that vary in degree of severity, ranging from mild, to moderate, to…

NormanAugust 14, 2023

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What Is The Difference Between Adolescents Anxiety And An Anxiety Disorder?

The medical definition of anxiety provided in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary is “an abnormal and overwhelming sense of apprehension and fear often marked by physical signs (such as tension, sweating, and increased pulse rate), by doubt concerning the reality and nature…

NormanAugust 14, 2023

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The Effects of Stress On Child Lifespan

The Cleveland Clinic describes stress as “a normal reaction the body has when changes occur, resulting in physical, emotional and intellectual responses.” It is a feeling of emotional or physical tension that is the body’s reaction to a challenge or…

NormanJuly 17, 2023

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What Does Long Term Anxiety Do To The Adolescents Brain?

Anxiety is defined as “a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome.” It is the body’s natural response to stress and will manifest differently in everyone. Experiencing worry, fear, and…

NormanJuly 12, 2023