Solution-Focused Ideas to Get Your Best Grades This School Year
Are you someone who feels a surge of optimistic energy at the beginning of a school year? There is something about fall that makes students motivated and ready to start fresh. The fall semester is a good example of how you can use Solution-Focused therapy ideas to get your best grades yet.
One fun thing about psychology is that you can take one problem and use different theoretical approaches to try to solve it. For example, a cognitive therapist would use different techniques than a psychodynamic therapist to solve and understand a communication problem in a romantic relationship.
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Making a 'Tribute' to a loved one who has died can be therapeutic. It can provide opportunities to reflect on the person, on your relationship with the person, to memorialize an aspect of their personality, and possibly to help shift focus from loss to celebration.
People grieve in different ways, with different intensity, and for different lengths of time. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross wrote extensively about the five stages of grief, which include: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Grief researchers agree that the stages of grief are not fixed, nor do they happen in a linear... 
On October 20th, I’ll be landing in China (Beijing, to be precise), accompanied by a group of psychoanalysts and therapists who have been teaching and supervising Chinese student analysts in training, using Skype and other distance learning methods. I am psyched. I will see, in person, students with whom I’ve developed warm relationships, and it is amazing how close people can feel even though they are far away from each other. We’ll be seeing each other for the first time. Or will we? It’s more accurate to say that we’ll be meeting in a different dimension than usual; the two-dimensional... 
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Experiencing traumatic events can cause impairments in physical and biological reactions that lead to psychological symptoms. The majority of mainstream treatment approaches for trauma do not integrate somatic therapy. “Even so, there is a growing recognition of the importance of working somatically in the treatment of 
Sleep problems are prevalent, and can take a significant toll on well being. Thus, this month’s article focuses on mind-body approaches to address occasional and chronic insomnia. Last month, I wrote about the most common herbal and nutritional supplements for insomnia. Mind-body approaches are especially important tools for treating sleep problems because they are considered safe, have demonstrated evidence of benefit, and do not interfere with other treatments such as medications.
The Many Faces of Insomnia
Although we tend to use the term ‘insomnia’ to describe any problems associated... 
While there are a multitude of distractions and amusements available to anyone with a library card, it is not unusual to go through periods of boredom when not even the most scintillating book, movie, or conversation will sate the crankiness demon. At those times, it is best to stop whatever you are doing and simply sit with what is. Are you feeling annoyed, frustrated, agitated, sad, or self-critical? Welcome whatever comes up. Investigate it. Do something paradoxical and try to increase the feeling. This may sound counter-productive, but it will actually help you figure out what is going on.... 
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Parents and teens each develop their own relationship with a therapist during 
Last week, my eldest brother, Bob, died after years of health challenges. We were never really close; my brother and I had opposite worldviews. I dreaded his forwarded emails, which I politely asked him to stop sending. They came anyway; he was determined to save me.
At the time of Bob’s difficult passing, I was reading Lynne McTaggart’s new book The Bond, which was highly recommended to me by my friends at the Institute for Noetic Sciences. In this groundbreaking book we discover scientifically that “the essential impulse of all life is a will to connect rather than a drive to... 
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One of the symptoms of anxiety and depression is the tendency to view things negatively, or with a negative bias. People with 
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Dyadic play therapy is a form of 
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A recent study conducted by researchers from the University of Copenhagen suggests that mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR), a technique known to decrease 
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Narrative psychotherapy is commonly used to aid people with difficult life transitions, trauma and other psychological issues. A recent study, conducted by Jonathan M. Adler of the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, examined how mental health and agency, a term used to describe the ability to act and think independently, are affected by 
As marathon runners pass mile after mile, many reach a point where they suddenly feel that they cannot go on. They may feel an unimaginable weight come over their body and a depletion of mental and emotional resources so complete that they can't imagine taking another stride – they have hit the wall. A similar phenomenon can occur in therapy. You may enter therapy with the commitment and determination of a runner who has just begun to train for a marathon. Then, just as suddenly and inexplicably as a runner hits the wall, you may at some point feel unable to move forward in therapy. You may feel... 
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Henny A. Westra, of the Department of Psychology at York University in Toronto, recently conducted a study to determine if the skill level and effectiveness of a therapist directly influences the outcome of treatment for a client with 
