Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Behavior change, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness, Values
The longer days and cooler temperatures may serve as a welcome change to some. Others may feel like hibernating inside, dreading the quickly approaching holiday season. Whether you are more inviting of fall or fighting against it, each of us is impacted in our own...
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Behavior change, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotion Regulation, Interpersonal problems, Values
It’s Monday night, and Kathleen returns home after a long day at work; she opens the door and as soon as she enters she hears the voice of her 15-year old daughter, Natalie, “Can I spend the night at my boyfriend’s house?” Caught by surprise, Kathleen pauses, and then...
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Behavior change, Values
In a fast-pace world that promotes multitasking and maintaining constant connections with others, it is increasingly difficult for many of us to find down time to unwind from the stresses that we have accumulated from work and our interpersonal lives. There is...
Behavior change, Emotion Regulation, Empirically supported treatments
Dear Readers: This is the second part of a series of posts for parents who have discovered their teen is cutting and want to know what to do about it. In our previous post, for parents: what to do if you teen is cutting (part 1), we identified specific steps for...
Parent series: general parenting
One of the interesting aspects of working with children is the presence of behavior that seemingly doesn’t serve the child’s own self-interest. For instance, a child may be misbehaving at school, getting into trouble at home and not have any clear friendships. It’s a...
