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How to Accept Our Teens and What They Explore

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David Schwartz Lmft

What to Do with Your Child's Big Feelings

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Heather Rose Artushin Lisw-Cp

Why Change Often Drains Your Energy (and How to Get It Back)

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Michelle Mcquaid Ph.d

Why Some Children of Divorce Refuse to See Their Parents

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Carol R. Hughes

Progress Towards Better Treatment of Mental Disorders

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Robert C. Smith Md

The Strong Correlation Between CTE and Suicide

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John Bateson

Is Fear of Being Called "Karen" Keeping Women From Intervening?

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Gill Harrop Ph.d

Why So Many Lawyer Jokes? Cracking the Case

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John Charles Simon

The Repression Revival

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Claudia Skowron Ms

Evaluating Mental Health Literacy Programs

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Ilan Kelman Ph.d

The Unexpected Tears of Grief in Complicated Relationships

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Kathy Mccoy Ph.d

Empathy Deficits, Narcissism, and Neurodivergence

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Sterlin L. Mosley Ph.d

A Tale of Scientific Bias, Controversy, and Discovery

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P. Scott Richards Ph.d

Does the Funeral Industry Exploit Vulnerability During Loss?

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Robert T Muller Ph.d

What Makes For a Good Metaphor?

What Makes For a Good Metaphor?

Are allegory and metaphor the principal forms of human reasoning?

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Neel Burton M.a

Why the American Eagle Ad is Receiving Backlash from Young People

Why the American Eagle Ad is Receiving Backlash from Young People

What the American Eagle ad controversy reveals about Gen Z—and how to get it right.

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Yalda T. Uhls Ph.d

Truth-Seeking in a Polarized World

Truth-Seeking in a Polarized World

AI and evidence-based thinking can be allies in the journey toward understanding.

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Mona S. Weissmark Ph.d

Why You Should Date 30 People Before Getting Serious

Why You Should Date 30 People Before Getting Serious

Building a successful, long-term, committed relationship takes time and practice.

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Steven Ing Mft

The Faith of Irishman John Joe Vaughan

The Faith of Irishman John Joe Vaughan

Personal Perspective: A celebration of the strength and love that lie within.

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Greg Obrien

3 Signs You're in a Psychologically Safe Relationship

3 Signs You're in a Psychologically Safe Relationship

Do you feel truly seen and acknowledged in your relationship?

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Mark Travers Ph.d

The Science Behind Your Preschooler's Endless Questions

Research shows jumping to quick answers actually harms your child's learning.

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Jen Lumanlan M.s

Person-Centered Therapy Is Not Passive, It's Deep Listening

Person-Centered Therapy Is Not Passive, It's Deep Listening

Carl Rogers on unconditional positive regard, empathy, and congruence.

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Stephen Joseph Ph.d

ADHD and Executive Function: Overcoming Challenges

ADHD and Executive Function: Overcoming Challenges

Addressing executive function challenges requires understanding the variations.

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Marion Marshall

Take Charge of Your Compulsive News-Watching Pessimism

Take Charge of Your Compulsive News-Watching Pessimism

Could rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) help you weather troubling times?

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Pamela D. Garcy Ph.d

The Difficulty of Speaking Out Against Powerful People

The Difficulty of Speaking Out Against Powerful People

When your abuser has power, coming forward can be more risky and even dangerous.

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Kaytee Gillis

The Psychological Warfare of Parental Alienation

The Psychological Warfare of Parental Alienation

When children undergo deliberate manipulation by a parent to destroy family bonds.

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Steven A Hassan Phd

The Psychology of the Cancer Bell

The Psychology of the Cancer Bell

Does the cancer bell ring in recovery or rekindle pain?

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Cheralyn Leeby Ph.d

Making Summer Memories: The Invisible Load

Recognizing the unseen labor behind summer fun

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Janelle E. Wells

We’ve Done What We Can. Now Let’s Take Care of Ourselves

We’ve Done What We Can. Now Let’s Take Care of Ourselves

The Cambodia–Thailand conflict reminds us to care for self and each other.

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Sothy Eng Ph.d

Mind Unseen: Invisible Landscapes of Perception and Thought

Mind Unseen: Invisible Landscapes of Perception and Thought

We all live in different realities, not just externally but also internally.

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Sarune Savickaite Ph.d

Mid-Year Motivation: How to Realign and Restart

Mid-Year Motivation: How to Realign and Restart

Feeling stuck on achieving your goals? Take time to check in and and reignite.

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Harry Cohen Ph.d

How to Spot and Heal Burnout in Neurodivergent Children

How to Spot and Heal Burnout in Neurodivergent Children

Could your neurodivergent child be burned out?

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Katie Rose Guest Pryal J.d

5 Ways to Develop a Culture of Positive Masculinity

5 Ways to Develop a Culture of Positive Masculinity

How can we remove unfair and potentially harmful expectations about masculinity?

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Gill Harrop Ph.d

A 5-Year-Old Is Rough With His 2-Year-Old Sister—What to Do?

A 5-Year-Old Is Rough With His 2-Year-Old Sister—What to Do?

Alternative approaches to the time-out.

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Suzanne Bender M.d

Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Single Mother?

Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Single Mother?

“Sometimes you have to write your own fairytale.”

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Susan Newman Ph.d

Why Make Therapy Constructive?

Why Make Therapy Constructive?

Constructive therapies, which focus on meaning-making, have clear advantages.

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Jonathan D. Raskin

Silencing Negative Voices

Silencing Negative Voices

Personal Perspective: Refusing emotional limitations from those inner critics

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Barbara A Jaffe Ed.d

Embracing Disability Identity Is Empowering for Me

Embracing Disability Identity Is Empowering for Me

Personal Perspective: My body opens me to the breadth of human experience.

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Jennifer Sarche Mph

The Magic of Potential Space: Why Grown-Ups Still Need Play

The Magic of Potential Space: Why Grown-Ups Still Need Play

Rediscovering creative aliveness in the place between imagination and reality.

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Stephen L Salter Psy.d

Raising Leaders, Not Followers

Raising Leaders, Not Followers

I’m teaching my kids to have a strong sense of self.

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Ilene Strauss Cohen Ph.d

Are You Terrified of Being Bored?

Are You Terrified of Being Bored?

Understanding the connection between thaasophobia and the desire to be special.

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Leon Garber Lmhc

Why We Hurt Each Other

Why We Hurt Each Other

Human violence isn't just madness. It has evolutionary roots.

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Sam Goldstein Ph.d

The Wounded Self: How Perfectionism Drives Our Relationships

The Wounded Self: How Perfectionism Drives Our Relationships

Perfectionism as a self-protective state.

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Amanda Jean Rocchio Msed

Nihilism: The Death of Reason

Nihilism: The Death of Reason

On meaning lost and the unraveling of common sense.

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Stephen L Salter Psy.d

How to Cope When Your Childhood Heroes Die

Deaths of public figures can bring about feelings of loss and grief.

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Phil Lane Msw

Can You Really Tell When Someone's Lying? Experts Weigh In

Can You Really Tell When Someone's Lying? Experts Weigh In

You can’t use behavior to tell if someone is lying, even if you are trained.

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Fabiana Alceste Ph.d

How Fear Stopped Me From Having Kids

How Fear Stopped Me From Having Kids

Personal Perspective: Some of us sense that our anxiety would make us terrible parents.

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S. Rufus

“I’m Worthless”: The Thought That Nearly Killed Her

“I’m Worthless”: The Thought That Nearly Killed Her

One Holocaust survivor's homework assignment shows how thoughts can create feelings.

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David Burns M.d

Stopping Sass and Rudeness in Children

Stopping Sass and Rudeness in Children

How to respond in a way that reduces versus reinforces this maddening behavior.

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Claire Lerner Lcsw-C

The Quiet Beginnings of Addiction: Why We Miss It in Women

Addiction doesn’t always look reckless. It can look responsible. Normal.

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Smita Das Md