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The Prison Problem: Recidivism Rates and Mental Health
More and more Americans with mental health concerns are becoming incarcerated. This population of has reached “crisis proportions,” according to the National Alliance on Mental Health ... Read More
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When Loss Hurts: 6 Physical Effects of Grief
If you have ever lost a loved one, you have most likely experienced grief. Grief is an intense feeling of sadness or sorrow. It is generally brought on by the loss of something or someone. ... Read More
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Parenting Effectively When You Both Have ADHD: Tips for Success
When you have attention-deficit hyperactivity, managing the demands of adult life—working, paying bills on time, completing necessary tasks, and so on—can be enough of a challenge when ... Read More
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How Dance/Movement Therapy Can Help Kids Learn to Regulate Emotions
Children often make discoveries through physical actions such as running, walking, playing, and scribbling. Their inner worlds manifest through these physical experiences. When a child ... Read More
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Is Your Teen Pregnant? She Needs Your Parenting More Than Ever
You have discovered your teenage daughter is pregnant. Suddenly, teenage pregnancy is no longer just part of a dramatic storyline in a television show, or something that happens to someone ... Read More
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How Are You Feeling? Take a Minute to HALT for Your Health
How do you feel right now? Great? Okay? Not so good? If you aren’t feeling your best, taking a moment to HALT is one of the best things you can do for your overall mental and physical ... Read More
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Does OCD Get Worse Before It Gets Better?
Dear GoodTherapy.org, I have bad OCD. Fear of germs, obsessive and anxious thoughts, needing things to always be perfect and orderly—you name the symptom, I’m pretty sure I have it. Before ... Read More
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Conversion Disorder, Complex Trauma, and the Mind-Body Connection
“If we could somehow end child abuse and neglect, the eight hundred pages of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (and the need for the easier explanations such ... Read More
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Top 10 Myths: A Guide to Everything OCD Is Not
“I need to go organize my planner. I’m so OCD.” “I’m obsessed with color-coding my pens and ordering my books by size and color. That’s my inner OCD talking.” OCD, short for ... Read More
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What Mother’s Day Means for Mental Health
The month of May. Tulips and daffodils remind us that spring is a time for growth and change. May is not only Mental Health Awareness Month, it is also the month in which many celebrate ... Read More
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When Mother’s Day Is Hard to Celebrate
Mother’s Day is observed on the second Sunday in May. Greeting card stores and flower shops go to great lengths to remind customers that many people have, or have had, mothers to celebrate. ... Read More
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How Relational Trauma Can Affect the Trust-Building Process
Therapists used to reserve the term “trauma” to describe events like war, rape, and life-threatening experiences. We now recognize that people can have similar responses to relational ... Read More
