Four mothers and their four daughters who were experiencing a conflictual relationship were taken on two Adventure Therapy weekends followed by a family day. Questionnaires regarding changed perceptions of competence in self and other, and changed relationships within the mother-child dyad were completed...
She’s noticing that her son is very attuned and seems concerned about his mother’s happiness. He’s asking if she’s happy. And then when she tells him, “Honestly,” which is wonderful, “I’m not happy right now, sweetie, and that’s okay. Sometimes we can’t be happy all the...
On my mother’s side, my grandmother, Rose Krechevsky, was one of many children born into the same family in Belarus. Her brother, David, shortened to David Krech, became a famous psychology professor at the University of California Berkeley, where he spoke out on social justice issues inclu...
He had been in and out of relationships with women in his life, but never stuck around. Salsa’s presence opened him up to a real relationship, then he met the woman who would become his first wife and the mother of his daughter. All along, though, PTSD wrapped arou...
This demonstrates her skills as a mother, showcasing the fact that she’s very much in touch with her children. She not only anticipates that Tish is pregnant, but she immediately soothes her by insisting that she doesn’t have anything “to cry about,” thereby helping her daughter view ...
For Mary Lockwood, a divorced single mother from Dothan, Ala., Kahler's simple but profound exercise tapped into something powerful. "I just melted and I could not do the assignment. I had never been asked, what are your dreams? What are your goals? What do you wanna be when you grow...
Joey looked up into his mother’s eyes and asked the question he’d been carrying around for a while. “Mommy, why did this happen to me?” She noticed the start of tears forming in the corners of his eyes, tried to smile at him and did her best to answer. “I don’t know, ho...
her mother sought to wrest her away from her girlfriend and her gay life. Six months into her stay, after hearing Lopez describe some ofher experiencesthere, her mother decided to pull her daughter out of River View by sneaking her off campus in the backseat of her car, according to ...