(Guest post by Ron Palomares, PhD, psychologist.) “Daddy, why is everyone talking about ‘9/11’ and seeming so sad?” How do you answer a question like that, when your child was not alive or too young to remember that day you and I could never forget? As the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks [...]
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Have you seen the buzz about the new study recently reported in the journal Pediatrics? It found that child care time might help protect kids of depressed moms from developing psychological and behavioral problems. Blogs and articles (like this one from CNN’s The Chart) have been popping up all over the Internet since the [...]
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Every once in a while in my psychotherapy practice, a parent with whom I work “discovers” that their teenager is using drugs. This awareness usually comes as a result of sleuthing. Sometimes the outcome is positive: The parent confronts the teen and usually treatment or drug rehabilitation follows. And sometimes, the result is feelings of [...]
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