New Study: Should your toddler be in therapy? – report from Child Psychology...
This is exciting news about a study showing successful results from early intervention with psychotherapy tailored for at risk toddlers and young children! From the Child Psychology and Parenting Blog…...
View ArticleTeen Anxiety Can Have Many Faces
Research now tells us that for many young people, anxiety and depression can be two sides of the same mental health challenge. We know that anxiety often precedes depression in school age kids. Or, as...
View ArticleAutism in California: Major Health Insurers agree to provide autism coverage...
More good news for special needs parents in California…with CalMHSA (Prop 63 support for mental health services for all and early intervention clinics such as PREP for youth psychosis),...
View ArticleOn Huff Post…Guilt: My Last, Worst Addiction
I’d just told [my son’s psychiatrist] that I was a 43-year-old single mother of two sons, that I worked as a freelance TV writer and I was in fine health. Of course I didn’t say I’d been depressed for...
View ArticleA Free Teleseminar: Writing Your Way Through Family History to Recovery
In this teleseminar I discuss with Linda Joy Myers, who is a psychotherapist and the president of the National Association of Memoir Writers how mental illness travels through families and the...
View ArticleNot-So-Quick Fix: ADHD Behavioral Therapy May Be More Effective Than Drugs in...
This article offers an assessment of new psychotherapy treatment options for attention and self control problems in kids and teens, an important development for parents to consider…of course with the...
View ArticleSchizophrenia Awareness Week and the Continuing Struggle to Make Early...
This month, May, 2012, includes Schizophrenia Awareness Week, in Australia (May 20th) and the U.S (May 26). These are important occasions to spread the word that schizophrenia is a treatable...
View ArticleChildren Affected by War, New Psychological Intervention Program Shows...
This dramatic improvement for traumatized youth in one of the worst places for children on the planet, Congo, is testimony to the power of psychotherapy to help someone heal from abuse and neglect. I...
View ArticleAll PTSD is not the same, A VA Psychiatrist Makes the Case for “Complex PTSD”...
Shaili Jain MD, a VA psychiatrist makes the case for a “complex PTSD” for those who’ve experienced prolonged, repeated trauma By Shaili Jain, MD Posted: November 7, 2012 on Mind the Brain,...
View ArticleNew Peer Reviewed Meta-Study Says Psychotherapy Works for Depression!
A meta-analysis published in PLOS Medicine establishes irrefutably that psychotherapy — and various forms of it –are effective treatment for depression. And these studies looked at the effects of...
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