Instead, they keep their hurtful life separate and closed off. This may reflect how they have observed their parents deal with difficult emotions. A parent can attend family therapy to help the family dynamic recognize how to become a safe healing environment that can accept a range of emotions...
What our research with these longitudinal studies has shown, absolutely yes and absolutely no. [chuckle] So like many things with human beings, it’s quite difficult to have a simple answer. Life is just too complex, and that’s one of the things that Jay really draws out in the book. ...
This can actually worsen your child’s symptoms. Called expressed emotion, it’s a slippery slope as some mentally ill children can evoke a parents’ need to be firmer or medaling but this can trigger worse effects, especially with severe mental illness like bipolar disorder or schizophrenia. R...
We usually expect a child will respond to consequences—loss of privileges or losing a parent’s trust—in a way that makes him uncomfortable, which will lead the child to change his behavior. The problem is, ODD kids will stand there while parents are addressing an issue or concern, and...
Connect with a therapist How much sleep do teenagers need? If you're a busy teenager or the parent of a busy teenager, 10 hours of sleep per night may sound difficult to achieve. Many adolescents prioritize schoolwork, social stressors, part-time jobs, and extracurricular activities and forge...
Alcoholism has no single cause. Rather, it is a detailed combination of genetic markers andenvironmental precursors. There is a hereditary role in developing alcohol dependence, but an alcohol addiction gene has never been isolated. Having a parent who is an alcoholicmakesyou four times more likel...
"A parent's worst nightmare," Xiong said. "Stuff that you are afraid to even fathom and think." Three years later, Xiong still visit's Max's room every day. "I still tell him good morning," he said. "I still tell him goodnight before I go to bed. This is how he left it and...
to wonder, since Emma was such a staunch conservative (or as her dad liked to say, “Emma is to the right of right.” if Emma came up with the priest who turned politician because of his being a democrat and running for office. Maybe Emma wanted to stop his political career. Did ...
Then what? “It’s a lot harder to learn from scratch how to deal with a teenager who’s acting out than it is with a five-year-old who is acting out,” he says. “The parent has lost five or 10 years relying on medication and not dealing with problems that behavior therapy could...
Some people tend to deal with their anger by keeping their feelings to themselves instead of expressing them in the moment. This is one of the characterizing features of passive-aggressive anger. In a bid to avoid confrontation and maintain control, you may find yourself trying to act like eve...