Empirically supported treatments, Behavior change, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD series: adults
Somatosensory OCD is a specific type of OCD, also referred as hyperawareness OCD or sensorimotor OCD. This type of OCD includes intrusive obsessions about “involuntarily bodily sensations.” For instance, if you were struggling with this sensory motor OCD you...
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Behavior change, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotion Regulation, Empirically supported treatments, Interpersonal problems
You have been trying really hard to manage your teen’s behavior, and maybe by now you have already read many books, took your teen to many therapists, offered your teen money, removed the cell phone, forbidden him to see his friends, denied buying music from...
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...
Behavior change, Empirically supported treatments, Interpersonal problems
Do you ever notice that relationships, across the board, are complicated, difficult and require different types of attention? Do you ever notice that no matter how hard you try, relationships are still difficult? If you answer yes to any of these questions, you may...
Behavior change, Emotion Regulation, Empirically supported treatments, Parent series: emotion regulation, Parent series: general parenting
It can be challenging for any of us to see a friend, family member, or loved one upset. It can be especially difficult for a parent to see their child this way. Often parents find themselves wanting to “fix” or “solve” the problem for their child so that they are no...
Behavior change, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotion Regulation, Empirically supported treatments
This is post is the last post on this series of “Anger Specialists: Why do I continue to be angry.” In the next paragraphs I’ll describe how anger affects interpersonal relationships and how aversive strategies destroy what people crave the most: intimate...
