Reasons why Trauma Treatment & Recovery might Be a Bad Idea
The decision to contact a therapist, set up an appointment, interview the therapist and agree to move forward with treatment might seem to imply that a client is ready to pursue their goal of feeling better. Unfortunately, ambivalence surrounding the therapeutic process as well as its outcome occurs far more commonly than clarity around this pursuit. Healing would presumably be the obvious goal for all of us; why wouldn’t we want that, right? Clients have offered fairly good reasoning as to why not; if we hope to be able to move beyond the ambivalence and into confronting the trauma, providing... Read More
Extradyadic involvement (EDI), also known as infidelity, occurs in many relationships. At times, the 
Post-traumatic stress disorder (
Holiday traditions can be excruciatingly difficult for individuals who have experienced traumatic events, and yet finding a way to decrease this difficulty is an often neglected topic. Many individuals take a “grin and bear it” attitude and argue that the holiday season only comes once a year. While the final months of a calendar year do have a large helping of holidays, holidays occur throughout the year, and birthdays and seemingly minor holidays can sometimes be harder than the big ones.
One option would be to turn your back on all holidays and disengage from any such celebrations. Unfortunately... 
Clinicians rely on varying factors to assess a client’s level of mental health. Past events, such as abuse or trauma, can help a clinician determine if the behavior a client exhibits in the present tense warrants psychological treatment. But exactly how does a clinician decide what is normal or abnormal behavior? “The concept of psychological abnormality has long been, and continues to be, a central concept in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and in a wide range of clinical evaluations,” said Nancy S. Kim of the Department of Psychology at Northeastern University.... 
Public disclosure of personal experiences, feelings or events, is becoming a more widely accepted form of psychological healing than private disclosure. “For instance, one recent experiment showed that undergraduates who wrote about an unresolved stressful experience that was then submitted to the researchers, as opposed to kept private, experienced less 
Adolescents who exhibit mild psychotic episodes will rarely go on to develop full blown clinical psychosis. “Longitudinal studies in general population samples, using follow-up intervals from 6 months to 8 years, have shown that, in most adolescents, psychotic experiences disappear over time and do not persist into adulthood,” said J.T. Wigman of the Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. “However, in a minority of adolescents, subclinical psychotic experiences progress to clinical psychotic illness.” In an attempt to determine what... 
Racial discrimination and racism can have serious negative psychological effects. Many studies have been conducted examining the relationship between racism and stress, racism and anxiety and racism and depression. However, until now, there has been no tool available to measure all of the mental health consequences of 
Military veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan have reported high levels of psychological problems, according the Department of Veterans Affairs. “This data revealed that in 2008 rates of PTSD were at 21.8%, rates of 
Dissociative disorder not otherwise specified (DDNOS) and 
Trauma symptoms are often experienced and viewed as invasive and malevolent. 
With Thanksgiving behind us and the holiday season in full swing, it seems fitting to talk about gratitude. Gratitude captures both the verbal expression of thanks as well as an overall attitude of appreciation. This disposition of thanks brings obvious benefit to the recipient of gratitude, but it also enriches your life – you being the giver of gratitude. All to say that growing gratitude is an important task to focus on.
Before going any further, let’s look at the different styles of gratitude. The most straightforward style is purely genuine and spontaneous gratitude, but an equally... 
Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE) has been identified as one of the most effective forms of therapy for veterans with 
The mental health field is comprised of various disciplines that range greatly in cost and efficacy. But few studies have looked at how these different disciplines compare to each other with respect to overall large scale cost effectiveness and treatment viability. In an attempt to fill this void, D. Russell Crane, Ph.D., analyzed four years of mental health claims data from CIGNA healthcare. “The purpose of the study was to explore the practice patterns and subsequent cost-effectiveness of different types of professionals providing individual and 
