What Is Global Mental Health?
The exciting field of Global Mental Health aims to address the shortage of mental health services in low-resource communities around the world.
View ArticleArt Making and Stress Reduction
Is art making always a stress-reducing experience? Cumulative research points to "it's complicated;" the art psychotherapeutic relationship plus biomarkers may hold the key.
View ArticleUse an Overlooked Psychological Literacy to Reach Your Goals
There is a consensus about the importance of promoting psychological literacy, but a fundamental yet overlooked aspect of the literacy remains to be examined.
View ArticleA Couple Quits Therapy; What Is “Normal” Desire?
When is a lack of desire a problem to fix, and when is it a reasonable response?
View ArticleTalking About Money
How do you cope with financial stress? Ever tried talking about it?
View ArticleTrauma and Sleep: Treatment
People who have suffered trauma often experience sleep problems. Treating sleep disorder such as nightmares and insomnia can help facilitate the treatment of trauma related stress.
View ArticleThe Origins of Our Emotional Life: Our Earliest Feelings
Our earliest nine inborn feelings—“primary affects”—are key to understanding human development and emotional life. What are they? How do they work?
View ArticleStoicism: Being Indifferent to Pain or Pleasure
Many of the world religions suggest that being stoical is wise and virtuous. But many therapists suggest that rather than repress our emotions we should learn to embrace them.
View Article10 Ways to Avoid Emotional Fireworks
When someone gets their knickers in a twist and blows up, how do you handle it? If your current way of dealing with emotional fireworks isn’t working, here are ten tips to help you
View ArticleNew Study Shows Mindfulness Helps Prevent Depression
Can mindfulness help prevent depression from returning? New study finds that it's just as effective as traditional therapies and maybe even more so.
View ArticleTaking It Like a Man: Understanding Grieving Styles
Do men and women grieve differently? Some do, some do not.
View ArticleMourning? - Yes. Forgiveness? - No.
I do not understand why the principle of forgiveness is held in such high esteem. The process by which we come to terms with the past is through mourning.
View ArticleHealing Our Wounds: Finding the Gold Within
When we find the gold hidden in our wounds, the healing process becomes more than resolving our pain. It becomes a path to discovering our greatest gifts.
View ArticleUnderstanding Behavioral Therapy for Autism
Long-term planning for children with autism requires patience and diligence. Behavioral therapy, as time and labor-intensive as it seems, remains the foundation of skill building.
View ArticleManaging Emotions: Mindfulness, Impulsivity, and Goldilocks
Mindfulness is an affordable substitute for the real thing.
View Article5 Ways That Helping Others Is Self-Serving
Recent research suggests that caring for others may be as important as caring for ourselves when we're feeling stressed.
View Article3 Reasons Why Parents Allow Their Own Kids to Bully Them
Do you let your kid push you around? Here's how your childhood prepared you to be a bullied parent.
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