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Is Your Child Feeling the Effects of the "COVID Slide"? | Webinar
Children are returning to the classroom after more than a year of remote learning.
How to Make Sense of Procrastination
Imagine sitting down to complete a task you’ve been putting off. Maybe it’s a big task with lots of different parts; maybe it feels overwhelming, and you don’t know where to start; maybe it’s a task that feels mundane and that you have to do frequently. What emotions come up when you imagine yourself getting started on this task? What thoughts? One thing is for certain: We’ve…
Why We Blame
“Why did you have to…?” “If it wasn’t for you…” “How many times have I told you…?” Is there any couple alive that doesn’t sometimes indulge in the blame game — finding fault in one another when something goes wrong? Research reported in The Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (Volume 138, 2009) revealed that people credit others far more often for “negative” events…
Sports Psychologist, Dr. Michele Kerulis, Talks to WGN News About Protecting Athletes' Mental Health
In a monumental display of courage, one of USA Olympics’ most decorated athletes, four-time gold medal gymnast Simone Biles, has stepped away from the women’s gymnastics team competition in the 2020 Olympics to focus on her mental health.
Reentry Anxiety
After more than a year of pandemic stress; social isolation; and overlapping demands of work, home and school, many of us have been eagerly awaiting a return to normal. As the pace of vaccinations picked up in the early half of 2021 and states and municipalities relaxed restrictions, that return to a semblance of normality is upon us.
Positive Endings
Next time you and your spouse get into an argument, call the kids over to watch and listen. (You’re thinking: What? That's crazy!) Our children learn to handle conflict by watching how others do it, particularly their parents. (You’re thinking: I don't want them to imitate us!)
When Politics & Culture Disrupt Family Relationships
Do you love someone whose beliefs are so different from your own that it feels nearly impossible to bridge the gap? Therapist Aaron Cohn, Ph.D., LMFT, poses this question in his powerful new paper on navigating disrupted family relationships. Following the pandemic and the most divisive presidential election in recent history, many of us are intimately familiar with…
The Impact of COVID-19 on Existing Substance Abuse Disorders
We asked Tamara Faulkner, LCSW, CADC, “How has the fallout from the pandemic, including increased stress and social isolation, affected those with existing substance use disorders?”