Training in Positive Thinking May Help Anxious Teens – iVillage. Researchers from Oxford University in the United Kingdom found that training youth to bring a bias toward either positive or negative interpretations of unclear social situations could influence how the teens felt about those interactions and their subsequent mood. Read More http://www.ivillage.com/training-positive-thinking-may-help-anxious-teens/4-a-364796#ixzz1S6i7w6lk
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I have never understood the diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder, for some reason the name has always confused me and to be honest a bit scary. It is a misleading label that was coined in the 1930’s. I wish I had read this article from The New York Times, Personal Health – An Emotional Hair [...]
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Thoughtful therapy is not something that can be imparted from books or seminars alone and is much more than a set of skills which are delivered willy-nilly according to the adolescent’s diagnosis. We are not simply in the business of instruction. It takes years to develop a “third ear,” to hear the underlying themes of a person’s life story and to help him or her to learn to pay attention to his or her own thoughts, so that eventually they can do this for themselves.
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Milestones are being met in our son’s residential treatment care, long milestones, if I may add. The one year marker at his current facility is next week and I feel a vast difference in my son’s engagement in the program and in his life. He knows that we are talking about transition the end of [...]
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