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	<title>Blogging on Good Therapy &#187; Family Therapy</title>
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		<title>When Is It Time to Separate the Family?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LynneSilvaBreen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Follow the Heart]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While there are times when separating is necessary to keep family members safe and healthy, it is generally in everyone's best interest to work to stay together, because we all need to feel we belong and are valued. When couples separate, they should immediate seek counseling if the goal is to remain married.]]></description>
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		<title>Family-Based Treatment for Anorexia in Teens</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/family-based-treatment-anorexia-teens-0202121/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/family-based-treatment-anorexia-teens-0202121/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Child & Adolescent Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cognitive Behavioral Therapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Control Issues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Research is showing that family-based therapy is more effective than cognitive-behavioral therapy in treating teens with anorexia nervosa. Teens show a better result in terms of maintaining healthy weight and adhering to treatment.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Stress and Environment: How Gender Affects Children’s Response</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/stress-environment-gender-affects-response-0130122/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/stress-environment-gender-affects-response-0130122/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Child & Adolescent Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Problems]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Science of Psychotherapy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One method for measuring reactivity to stress is to assess the level of autonomic nervous system (ANS) functioning. In a recent study, Lisa M. Diamond of the Department of Psychology at the University of Utah used skin conductance (SCL) to measure ANS among 110 children 14 years old. The purpose of her experiment was to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family Therapy May Help LGB Youth at Risk for Suicide</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/family-therapy-helps-suicidal-lgb-youth-0112121/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/family-therapy-helps-suicidal-lgb-youth-0112121/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anxiety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Child & Adolescent Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Depression]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy: Models & Methods]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) teens are at increased risk for suicide due to peer victimization and minority discrimination. These actions can have serious psychological consequences for teens, including plummeting self-esteem, anxiety, hopelessness and depression. “No experience, however, is more pernicious than parental rejection,” said Gary M. Diamond of the Department of Psychology at Ben-Gurion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Therapist’s Comfort Critical for Success of Multisystemic Therapy</title>
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		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/therapists-comfort-critical-for-success-of-multisystemic-therapy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Academic Concerns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aggression & Violence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Multisystemic Therapy (MST) is a home-based method of therapy that is designed to meet the needs of disadvantaged clients, in particular, youth from poor socioeconomic backgrounds with drug or alcohol problems, domestic violence issues and HIV, among others. “MST interventions integrate empirically supported clinical techniques (e.g., family therapy, behavior therapy, cognitive-behavior therapy) into a broad-based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cost and Effectiveness of Individual and Family Therapies</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/individual-family-therapies-cost-effectiveness-1110112/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/individual-family-therapies-cost-effectiveness-1110112/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anxiety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Therapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Post Traumatic Stress / Trauma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy: Models & Methods]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=10710</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Which Type of Therapy is Most Effective for Adolescent Substance Abusers?</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/effective-therapy-with-adolescent-substance-abusers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/effective-therapy-with-adolescent-substance-abusers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Child & Adolescent Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drug & Alcohol Addiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[: According to a new study led by Michael S. Robbins of the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami, Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BFST) is a more effective form of treatment for adolescent substance users than traditional drug treatment provided in community programs. Teens with substance use problems often find themselves thrown [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Teens and Parents Differ in Evaluating Family Therapy</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/teens-parents-evaluate-family-therapy-differently/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/teens-parents-evaluate-family-therapy-differently/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art & Practice of Psychotherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Child & Adolescent Issues]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=10308</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[: Parents and teens each develop their own relationship with a therapist during family therapy. The overall outcome of treatment is dependent not only on these relationships, but on the other family members’ relationships with the therapist, and their level of success.  Myrna L. Friedlander of the University at Albany, State University of New York, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Functional Family Therapy Benefits At-Risk Youth Offenders</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/functional-family-therapy-at-risk-youth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/functional-family-therapy-at-risk-youth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aggression & Violence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oppositional & Defiant Behavior in Children & Teens]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=9872</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“Adolescents involved in the justice system are clinically complex, with particularly high rates of behavior problems, mental health disorders, and other ‘at-risk’ behaviors,” said Thomas Sexton of the Center for Adolescent and Family Studies at Indiana University. “Estimates are that 50% to 80% of delinquent adolescents meet the criteria for a mental disorder, such as [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Using Dialectical Behavior Therapy Techniques with Imago and Family Therapy</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/dialectical-behavior-imago-family-therapy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/dialectical-behavior-imago-family-therapy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnMigueis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art & Practice of Psychotherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dialectical Behavioral Therapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Therapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Imago Therapy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=9828</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am not formally trained in DBT. My knowledge of it coming from texts, watching trained practitioners do it and gradually incorporating it into my practice. I’m comfortable with its use due to my background and training in similar modalities and have found the skills to be valuable for those who have a difficult time [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Family Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Offers Hope for Children of Depressed Parents</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/family-cognitive-behavioral-therapy-depressed-parent/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/family-cognitive-behavioral-therapy-depressed-parent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=9663</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Depression affects approximately 7.5 million adults. Because of this, nearly 15 million children currently live with a depressed parent. These children are nearly four times more likely to develop depression as a result, and treating this group of adults and children is a major health priority. Bruce E. Compas, of the Department of Psychology and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>You Never Told Me! Listening Well in Family Life</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/daily-family-listening/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/daily-family-listening/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LynneSilvaBreen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Being & Doing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communication Problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emotional Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Therapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many times have you heard something like this in your household? “You remember. I told you about it last week. You said you were fine with it.” “What? No you didn’t. This is the first I’ve heard about it!” Whether it’s a teenager talking about a social event, or a spouse talking about a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Five Domains of a Healthy Relationship</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/five-domains-healthy-relationship/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/five-domains-healthy-relationship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JustusDAddario</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art & Practice of Psychotherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Being & Doing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elements of Good Therapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emotionally Focused Therapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Therapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Follow the Heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mindfulness Based Approaches / Contemplative Approaches]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You might have heard the phrase “love is the glue” that holds us, the universe, etc. together. I&#8217;d like to make a case for mindfulness as a similar connecting agent. In thinking of the work I am passionate about offering at Counseling on Capitol Hill, I&#8217;ve discovered that the various offerings have a common theme. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>In the Room with a Father</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/therapists-fathers-parenting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/therapists-fathers-parenting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 21:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChenOren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Child & Adolescent Issues]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=8754</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a psychologist, I see many dads who take pride in and also struggle with being a father. In honor of Father’s Day, I would like to offer some reflections for fathers, families, and therapists about the importance of recognizing and celebrating fathers in therapy. Let’s start with a quiz: 1. What percent of adult [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Marriage &amp; Family Therapy: A Hope for Real Change</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/marriage-family-therapy-hope-real-change/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/marriage-family-therapy-hope-real-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 00:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BlakeEdwards</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Attachment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family of Origin Issues]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Healing from The Inside Out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Identity Issues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life in the trenches brings with it fears, burdens, and losses. Times of stress and embattlement may inflict wounds to be long left either ignored or haphazardly bandaged. Sometimes in adolescence the severing of openness with parents is a lonely precursor to endless turf battles in a fight for identity. Left unresolved, the gaping irresolution [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Major Mental Illness and the Family</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/major-mental-illness-family-relationships/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/major-mental-illness-family-relationships/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 21:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LynneSilvaBreen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bipolar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For all the research that has been done in the last twenty years attempting to understand the brain, the organ at the top of our spine retains its essential mystery. We know more now than ever how the brain works, how it has developed over the centuries to do the miraculous things it does, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pink Elephant of Perception</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/psychology-perception-reality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/psychology-perception-reality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 00:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BlakeEdwards</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anxiety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art & Practice of Psychotherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Attachment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Being & Doing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Child & Adolescent Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communication Problems]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to my experience, perception is always more powerful than reality. Everything that I am is influenced by that which I perceive to be true, whether it is actually true or merely imagined. As a therapist, I have a responsibility to notice and, at times, even confront perception. I would do well to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being &amp; Human Encounter in Good Therapy</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/human-relationship-good-psychotherapy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/human-relationship-good-psychotherapy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 22:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BlakeEdwards</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art & Practice of Psychotherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Different Side of Treatment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elements of Good Therapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Existential Psychotherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Therapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing from The Inside Out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humanistic Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Person Centered / Rogerian]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=8276</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[May (1983) wrote that the most fundamental aspect of therapy is being and that, therefore, the value of the human encounter in therapy far outweighs complex understandings about a person’s psychological makeup or the technical skill of a guru. He did not mean to diminish the value of insight, but wrote, “The data…learned about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family and Loss &#8211; In It Together</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/family-death-grief-process/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/family-death-grief-process/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnMigueis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication Problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emotional Overwhelm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Therapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grief, Loss, & Bereavement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing from The Inside Out]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I facilitate a Family Issues and Loss group for adults. What I find interesting is how one topic almost always spills into the other. When a family loses a member they are not only faced with having to cope with the absence of that person, they must also struggle with fulfilling that person&#8217;s role(s). Failure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Want Family Therapy? These 4 Problems Should Be Treated First</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/issues-treat-before-family-therapy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/issues-treat-before-family-therapy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LynneSilvaBreen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abuse / Survivors of Abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Addictions & Compulsions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aggression & Violence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Infidelity / Affair Recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy: For those Considering or Exploring]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=8230</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Families are amazingly resilient relationship groups. While many of us have enduring trouble with some aspect of our families, past or present, all of us are part of some form of family all our lives. Most of us organize our lives, day in, day out, year in, year out, around the needs, priorities, goals and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adolescent Consequences, 100% Natural and Organic!</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/adolescent-consequences-parenting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/adolescent-consequences-parenting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 21:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnMigueis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Academic Concerns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Communication Problems]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Follow the Heart]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oppositional & Defiant Behavior in Children & Teens]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The subject of consequences comes up frequently in my work with teens and families. The fact that many parents of teens struggle with this area should come as no surprise. Up until adolescence, consequences are pretty straightforward and effective &#8211; if your little one wants this you distract with that, if she throws a tantrum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Become a Good Stepparent</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/stepparent-adjustment-blended-family/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/stepparent-adjustment-blended-family/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LynneSilvaBreen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Being & Doing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blended Family Issues]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Family of Origin Issues]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Family Therapy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While most of us who marry intend it to be for a lifetime, about half of all first marriages in the United States end in divorce. Divorce ends not only a couple relationship based at least initially on attraction, trust and commitment; it marks the end of a dreamed future as a family. Despite the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Children Say, “I Don’t Like You”…</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/children-say-i-dont-like-you-parenting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/children-say-i-dont-like-you-parenting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 01:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KellySanders</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Child & Adolescent Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communication Problems]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=7913</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It hurts, yes, but I don’t believe they really don’t like you. Kids, as young as 2, learn to say NO, have their feelings hurt and want to do things their own way. They do not have the cognizance to say, “Mom, I’m mad because I can’t get my own way at this time. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resolution to Change: A Slow and Steady View of Therapeutic Transformation</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/resolution-change-winter-psychotherapy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/resolution-change-winter-psychotherapy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BlakeEdwards</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emptiness]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=7745</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As we enter a new year, we cannot help but gather a new resolve to make changes in our lives. It is a phenomenon of our culture. It is also an expression of natural rhythms of life.  Perhaps, even further, it is an indication of hope—if not faith—in something more. We desire change for common [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family Rituals</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/family-rituals-winter-celebrations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/family-rituals-winter-celebrations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LynneSilvaBreen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Follow the Heart]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=7722</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I write, the long days of high summer are but a memory, and the temperatures have dipped below zero. These are the days, at least in the northern hemisphere, when we hunker down and push ourselves along toward the anticipated light. Light that holds the promise of longer days, warmer temperatures, and a verdant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family Resolutions</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/family-new-year-resolutions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/family-new-year-resolutions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 22:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KellySanders</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication Problems]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=7714</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s a new year and everyone makes resolutions. Most resolutions are about weight loss, workout more, spend less among other things. Some resolutions stick and others do not. Most of these resolutions are individual but what about making Family Resolutions? Family resolutions are similar, with the intent to resolve a particular thing. Family resolutions can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chronic Illness and the Family</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/chronic-illness-family-psychotherapy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/chronic-illness-family-psychotherapy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 19:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LynneSilvaBreen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abuse / Survivors of Abuse]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=7472</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It may be the idealized image of television shows, or perfect, ever-present pictures in advertising in newspapers and magazines, or just the plan hopefulness with which we all start our families. But most of us don’t plan to include chronic, life-long health problems in our family plan. Our bodies are quite amazing creations, able to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Personality: Does Birth Order Matter?</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/personality-birth-order-family-therapy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/personality-birth-order-family-therapy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LynneSilvaBreen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Child & Adolescent Issues]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=7315</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For generations, family members have noted the differences that naturally arise in children raised in the same family. How is it that John, the first born and only boy, seems to have such different personality characteristics than his younger brother, raised in the same house by the same parents just two years apart?  Good question! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family Therapy on the Rise: Especially Helpful with Eating Issues</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/maudsley-method-family-therapy-eating-issues-anorexia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/maudsley-method-family-therapy-eating-issues-anorexia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=7302</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Individual therapy has long been one of the most effective and relied-upon means of treating and overcoming anorexia and other eating issues. Therapy may help to uncover psychological and emotional experiences that are causing, or at least triggering, the dangerous behavior. But many sufferers of eating disorder report no particular triggers. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Improves Quality of Life for Schizophrenia Patients</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/schizophrenia-cognitive-behavioral-therapy-stigma/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/schizophrenia-cognitive-behavioral-therapy-stigma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Most patients diagnosed with schizophrenia will be prescribed one or more medications for the rest of their life. Left untreated in any form, symptoms of the condition can disrupt personal relationships, make it difficult for the person to maintain employment and education, and interfere with their ability to care for themselves. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Addressing a Misconception in Body-Psychotherapy</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/body-psychotherapy-catharsis-healing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/body-psychotherapy-catharsis-healing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AyleeWelch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anxiety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art & Practice of Psychotherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bioenergetic Analysis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Core Energetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Depression]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Healing from The Inside Out]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=7195</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Oddly enough, a recent ant bite has got me thinking about human behavior and psychotherapy! The little guy lived in the dessert where survival skills are paramount and he got me a good one, it hurt like the dickens for about 5 minutes. Then I forgot about it. But days later the site around the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Family Therapy?</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/family-therapy-psychotherapy-children-teens-divorce-parenting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/family-therapy-psychotherapy-children-teens-divorce-parenting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LarryGreen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abandonment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Communication Problems]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oppositional & Defiant Behavior in Children & Teens]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Human Being of Therapy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=7171</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s not uncommon for a parent to bring a child to therapy and say, “Fix it!” Of course, they don’t typically say “it”; rather, they say, “Fix Larry!” I can imagine my mother taking me to a therapist when I was in my teens because I needed (as we say down South) “fixin.” At these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parenting in a Culture of Hyper-Connection</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/parenting-technology-family-therapy-social-network/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/parenting-technology-family-therapy-social-network/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LynneSilvaBreen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art & Practice of Psychotherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Child & Adolescent Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Control Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cultural & Social Issues]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Internet Addiction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Relating to Self and Others]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trust Issues]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=7160</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The human experience of parenting has changed some over the years. Biologically, having a child still involves all the relevant body parts, but these parts don’t necessarily have to belong to the parent in question; a mother’s body, a man’s sperm, can now all be borrowed, rented or purchased. All the wonders of the laboratory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Family Bed</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/family-therapy-bed-children-sleep/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/family-therapy-bed-children-sleep/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LynneSilvaBreen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Child & Adolescent Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cultural & Social Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Problems]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Postpartum Depression]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=7034</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Young parents, especially exhausted moms, relish the moments when their children fall asleep in their arms. Ask any parent of teenage children: those long-ago moments when their infant children rested against their chests, heavy with sleep, are among their most cherished memories of parenthood. We spend a third of our lives asleep. Issues of children, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Co-Dependency?</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/what-is-co-dependency/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/what-is-co-dependency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JoyceMcleodHenley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art & Practice of Psychotherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Codependency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drug & Alcohol Addiction]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=6937</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Co-dependency is a pattern of behaviors and beliefs that are learned by children of dysfunctional families while they are growing up. These behaviors and beliefs can be helpful to the family unit, because they enable it to survive. The child learns to depend on them to manage in the family system. Unfortunately, in the long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Ways Your Pets Can Improve Your Family’s Mental Health</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/pets-improve-mental-health/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/pets-improve-mental-health/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LindaChassman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal Assisted Psychotherapies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art & Practice of Psychotherapy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=6908</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mazey was three months old when I got her from the Humane Society. She and her three feral siblings were found in the snowy Rocky Mountains and needed a home. I took them all in and became their temporary mother while they learned to trust and even love humans. Like many animals, Mazey was special. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parenting is Still an Artform</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/parenting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/parenting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LynneSilvaBreen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art & Practice of Psychotherapy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=6901</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Social scientists love to study trends. These trends, whether short or long term, get written up into articles or lectures, and add to the general knowledge base of human beings and the world. Families, marriage, children and parenting are among those things most frequently written about and studied. That’s a very good thing. The problem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Gay Families Teach us About Gender Identity?</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/gender-identity-gay-families/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/gender-identity-gay-families/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LynneSilvaBreen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art & Practice of Psychotherapy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Identity Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) Issues]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=6762</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For years in our culture, most of us have defined family in a particular way. We assume that when we say “family” we mean a group of people who are related by birth, adoption, and marriage. And when we say marriage, we have pictured the promised relationships between men and women. But meanings around American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Divorce is a Family Problem</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/divorce-is-a-family-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/divorce-is-a-family-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 18:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ShendlTuchman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Divorce / Divorce Adjustment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Problems]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=6565</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“And what’s romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you are everything as you like it, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it’s always daisy-time.” —D. H. Lawrence D. H. Lawrence reminds us that “romance” isn’t what we live with day to day. Marriages often end because fantasies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Money, Money, Money</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/family-therapy-money/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/family-therapy-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LynneSilvaBreen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cultural & Social Issues]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=6472</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With all of our tax returns due last week, the subject of money, what we make and how we spend it, has been on all our minds. It’s never far away, of course. Managing our resources is one of the most important life skills we will ever have. And with the realities of this last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family Travels</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/psychology-family-travel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/psychology-family-travel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LynneSilvaBreen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family Problems]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=6308</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The weather’s slowly warming across the country, and along with snow melt and longer days comes that familiar family travel time known as Spring Vacation. And though they may not be, as Charles Dickens’s wrote, “the best of times, the worst of times” in your family’s lives, travels together as a group can be some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shutting Out A Family Member</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/family-therapy-connection/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/family-therapy-connection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LynneSilvaBreen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family Problems]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=6042</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Family harmony is a dream we all share. Wouldn’t it be great if we could function day to day like our favorite families on television? Sure, life would come along with a one-two punch, but because we are so connected, in sync, funny and resilient, by the end of the day we would land on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Significant Depression Risks Shown for Army Wives</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/family-therapy-depression-army-wives/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/family-therapy-depression-army-wives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=6022</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Focus is often given to the mental health needs of soldiers deployed in combat, but it may often be the case that entire families feel the effects of deployment in a similar way. Giving strength to this idea is an investigation of the impact of deployment on the wives of US soldiers published today in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Can Go Home Again</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/you-can-go-home-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/you-can-go-home-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LynneSilvaBreen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family Problems]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=5906</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For better or worse, we first learn about making and keeping relationships in our families. During our formative years, our parents establish patterns with us; patterns of connection and separation, of independence and dependence, of give and take, that literally shape our developing brains and how they work for the rest of our lives. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Los Angeles Sees Mental Health Clients Reunite with Families</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/los-angeles-sees-mental-health-clients-reunite-with-families/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/los-angeles-sees-mental-health-clients-reunite-with-families/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=3460</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Working through a mental health difficulty can be personally challenging for the self, but most people who confront such concerns also encounter issues within their families. In extreme cases, some people may become separated from their loved ones, as is the case of many women in Los Angeles with criminal backgrounds and indications of mental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Alliance on Mental Health Chapter Helps Organize Support</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/national-alliance-on-mental-health-chapter-helps-organize-support/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/national-alliance-on-mental-health-chapter-helps-organize-support/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family Therapy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=3305</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Grappling with the symptoms of mental illness can be challenging for therapy clients and their families, with issues ranging from poor emotional feedback on a daily basis to problems with the maintenance of a house and declining personal relationships. Recognizing the need to help therapy clients and their families understand these challenges from a more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Link Between Mothers&#8217; and Children&#8217;s Mental Health</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/link-between-mothers-and-childrens-mental-health/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/link-between-mothers-and-childrens-mental-health/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=3124</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A GoodTherapy.org News Summary While here have been scores of studies on the causes and effects of post-partum depression, a researcher from the University of Queensland recently set out to uncover the effects of mothers&#8217; mental health during the long process of child rearing. Focusing her research on a study performed at the Mater University [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Therapy, Who Comes First, the Child or the Parent?</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/in-therapy-child-parent/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/in-therapy-child-parent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=2946</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A GoodTherapy.org News Update There is growing evidence that introducing children and adolescents to therapy can prove beneficial in a host of areas; in fact, recommendations have been made that most if not all young people undergo some sort of professional screening for feelings of depression. The effort to help curb unnecessary suffering in youth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Agencies Report Need to Protect Families from Depression</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/protect-families-from-depression/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/protect-families-from-depression/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Feelings of depression can be disruptive for many people in various areas of their lives, but it can also have a serious impact on those with whom they&#8217;re especially close, including their family. The National Research Council and Institute of Medicine has released a report identifying the need to address feelings of depression within the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mediation:  An Empowering Alternative for Separating and Divorcing Couples</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/mediation-for-divorce/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/mediation-for-divorce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>author1</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Divorce / Divorce Adjustment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Therapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relationships & Marriage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“I became a lawyer 20 years ago to represent children’s rights. I became a mediator to assist partners restructure their lives in the face of a divorce, and in doing so minimize the deleterious effects of separation.” More and more couples are participating in divorce mediation to effectively communicate about their financial and parenting matters. [...]]]></description>
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