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By Mike Shery
Family problems can cause untold suffering and emotional problems. They can lead to depression, anxiety and even substance abuse. These problems are often very complex so timeliness can be crucial to a good counseling outcome -the sooner therapy is started, the better.
Conflicts like these often cause people to seek psychological or marriage counseling. However, they usually procra....
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Until recently, children were largely neglected in the pursuit to understanding trauma. Today there is an abundance of research that details trauma-specific reactions found in children following exposure to both violent and non-violent incidents including natural disasters. Currently these reactions are being evaluated for inclusion in the revisions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. As such it is important to recognize possible patterns of trauma inducing situations and its manifestation in children. Trauma is defined as experiencing or witnessing actual or threatend death and/or serious injury. Because adults manifest trauma reactions much differently than children, the following is a list of possible trauma reactions in children: - Cognitive- shorter attention span, memory impairments, confusion, foreshortened sense of future,altered goals, anddecreased trust in adults
- Physical- loss of appetite, overeating, bowel/bladder problems, sleep disturbances, hypervigilance
- Emotional- omens and fears, nervousness, dullness, anxiety, irritability, oralertness toreminders, anger, guilt, shame, and hopelessness
- Behaviors- bed wetting, thumb sucking, nightmares, repetitive play/reenactment, clingy attachments, loss of previously learned skills (ie academic or social) and aggression
During these times of economic strain and increased school violence, it is not uncommon to witness increased trauma-likesymptoms in younger children. I would encourage parents toseek professional treatment if their child has |
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By Christine OKelly
 When couples turn to therapy, it is often after they've been arguing for months or even years and are looking to therapy as a last resort to save their relationship. By this time, they have often settled into a pattern of predictable arguments over the same issues and seem doomed to repeat the same fight over and over again.
Couples therapy can give people the chance to start anew and work with an unbiased third party to assess and truly work on their relationship. That being said, therapy won't do the trick if both parties aren't willing to do the work. Both individuals must be open to speaking honestly about their wants and needs, listening to each other, and keeping an open mind.
Here are some tips to making your sessions more productive and ultimately successful:
Open Communication
Everyone has heard that communication is one of the most important things in a marriage or serious relationship. So what if you and your partner have really tried to communicate with each other but simply don't see eye to eye? In relationship |
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By Shaun Parker
Therapeutic couple counselling offers a way for individual couples to tackle particular difficulties they are experiencing, such as communication issues, a need for self discovery, improved sexual relationships, work to counter problems with jealousy or other areas. Counselling therapists will see a couple for as long as the couple wants, normally once a week, for a period of up to a few months. Some counselling bodies offer rates according to what an individual can afford to....
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