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Do you produce your best work under pressure? A sense of urgency often kickstarts the ADHD brain. But rather than delay until the last minute — risking missed deadlines and angry colleagues — why not import that urgency to boost productivity right now? Here’s how.
Don't Feed The WorryBug is great story to start the conversation on worry and anxiety. We all worry, it happens, but the key is to not let those worries aka the WorryBug grow to the point it ruins your day.
In this article from Psychology Today, Hal Shorey, Ph.D. discusses how attachment and memory can cause a person to get stuck in painful emotions. He also presents a strategy to help manage this tendency and become unstuck, more present and more content.
Her teacher smiled. "Just make a mark and see where it takes you." Art class is over, but Vashti is sitting glued to her chair in front of a blank piece of paper. The words of her teacher are a gentle invitation to express herself. But Vashti can’t draw - she’s no artist. To prove her point, Vashti jabs at a blank sheet of paper to make an unremarkable and angry mark. "There!" she says. That one little dot marks the beginning of Vashti’s journey of surprise and self-discovery. That special moment is the core of Peter H. Reynolds’s delicate fable about the creative spirit in all of us.
Dottie Higgins-Klein, LMFT, RPT-S, AAMFT Supervisor, is the Clinical and Administrative Director of the Family & Play Therapy Center in Philadelphia, which offers interactive, live, online postgraduate training for therapists around the world. The center offers generous geographic discounts in order to make training accessible to therapists in every economy. Since 1995, the Family Center has trained hundreds of therapists from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, as well as therapists across the country and around the world both onsite in Philadelphia and through our state-of-the-art Interactive Live Online Classroom (iLOC). We now offer these trainings through video replays, with some courses including live online components. The Association for Play Therapy gives non-contact training hours for most of our very popular trainings. (Participant feed-back ranges from 4.5-4.8 / 5) Three of our trainings follow the academic year. Throughout the year, we also offer supervision and one- and two-day seminars . Each summer, we offer a three-day Sand-training Course that is part of our Sandtray Certificate Program. We offer partial scholarships for international trainees. Many of the professionals who train here apply their hours toward the credential of registered play therapist (RPT) and registered play therapist supervisor (RPT-S) with the Association for Play Therapy. Three Certificate programs are offered: Play-Family Therapy Certificate Program with a Major Component in Child Development -- A Mindful Approach; Sandtray Play Therapy Certificate Program -- A Mindful Approach; Contextual Family Therapy Certificate Program.
Dr. Jonice Webb's website provides articles on Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN) for therapists, online trainings that offer continuing education credits, a CEN questionnaire, a CEN Newsletter and a CEN Therapist Referal list..
What is Childhood Emotional Neglect? Almost everyone realizes that what happens to us in childhood has an effect upon who we become as adults. The good and the bad: awards, accomplishments, mistreatment or abuse. It all has an impact. But there is another factor from childhood which has an equal or even greater effect than childhood events, like awards, mistreatment or abuse. This is a factor that people can’t see or remember. It’s invisible. I call it Emotional Neglect. Emotional Neglect is a parent’s failure to respond enough to a child’s emotional needs. Emotional Neglect is, in some ways, the opposite of mistreatment and abuse. Whereas mistreatment and abuse are parental acts, Emotional Neglect is a parent’s failure to act. It’s a failure to notice, attend to, or respond appropriately to a child’s feelings. Because it’s an act of omission, it’s not visible, noticeable or memorable. Emotional Neglect is the white space in the family picture; the background rather than the foreground. It is insidious and overlooked while it does its silent damage to people’s lives. Children who are emotionally neglected then grow up to have a particular set of struggles. Because their emotions were not validated as children, they may have difficulty knowing and trusting their own emotions as adults. They may have difficulty understanding their own feelings, as well as others’. Because an important part of themselves (their emotional self) has been denied, they may find themselves feeling disconnected, unfulfilled or empty. They may have difficulty trusting or relying upon others. Many describe feeling that they are different from other people; like something is wrong with them, but they’re not sure what it is. Another way that parents can unwittingly emotionally neglect their child is to fail to give him the structure and rules to live by, like consequences and discipline. As a result, the emotionally neglected often struggle with self-discipline as adults. Whatever the level of parental failure, the emotionally neglected have no childhood memories to explain their difficulties. So, too often, they blame themselves. To this day, Emotional Neglect has been overlooked. Because it’s invisible, unmemorable, and the absence of something (emotional validation), It has been greatly overshadowed by more visible, but also worthy topics, like childhood events, abuse, or trauma. My goal is to shine a light on this powerful but invisible force. To give people a common language to talk about it, and to offer an explanation to the scores of people who are suffering in silence, wondering what is wrong with them.
Website includes links and information related to the Family Enhancement and Play Therapy Center, Inc which provides professional trainings and information for parents related to Filial Therapy; The Playful Pooch Animal Assisted Play Therapy Program; Online Courses; and Information on the International Institute for Animal Assisted Play Therapy.Dr. Risë VanFleet is known internationally for her fun and informative presentations and workshops, as well as for her books, articles, and dvds about the fields of play therapy, Filial Play Therapy, and Animal Assisted Play Therapy. Her innovative approaches and stimulating training programs are frequently hailed by participants as among the best they've ever attended. A Licensed Psychologist (PA), Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor, and a Certified Dog Behavior Consultant, Dr. VanFleet brings 35 years of experience to her seminars, dvds, and books/articles. The quality of her work has been recognized by 8 national and international awards
As players try to capture the Worry Monsters, they learn important steps for dealing with persistent worry - identifying feelings, self-calming, making positive self-statements, changing negative thoughts, planning, coping with difficult feelings, and self-monitoring.
Al the Dragon is a welcome and festive visitor at family events, but soon his relationship with Dad becomes all consuming, forcing the rest of the family out of the house. Through "treatment" Al becomes smaller and the family gains new hope. Elaine M. Palmore's poignant story told through delightful illustration is a wonderful help to anyone trying to understand or discuss the heartbreak and hope of a family dealing with substance abuse or any similar issue.
Children can use this simple art activity to express what is in their hearts. It helps to put a visual to feelings and can be an assessment tool to use over time. This activity is a great one for multiple ages. Kids as young as 5 years old can benefit from coloring in their heart. Some kids may need an example of how to fill in the colors. For older kids, allow them to choose their own feeling to fill in and with younger kids select just a few feelings to have them color.
For divorcing couples with children, one of the first and most difficult tasks is to tell your children about the divorce. It is a painful conversation you never planned to have when you were initially married.There are many reasons you might dread telling your kids. Here are tips from licensed psychologist, Ann Buscho author of The Parent's Guide to Birdnesting: A Child-Centered Solution to Co-Parenting During Separation and Divorce, to make the dreaded conversation a bit easier for you and your family.
For further clinical evaluation and research, the APA is offering a number of “emerging measures” in Section III of DSM-5-TR. These patient assessment measures were developed to be administered at the initial patient interview and to monitor treatment progress, thus serving to advance the use of initial symptomatic status and patient reported outcome (PRO) information, as well as the use of “anchored” severity assessment instruments. Instructions, scoring information, and interpretation guidelines are included. Clinicians and researchers may provide APA with further data on the instruments’ usefulness in characterizing status and improving patient care.Symptom measures for adults, parents of children Ages 6-17, and for children ages 11-17; Disorder-Specific Severity Measures for adults, children ages 11-17 and clinician-rated; Disability Measures; Personality Inventories for adults and children ages 11-17, Early Development and Home Background; Cultural Formation Interviews.
Eating a wide variety of colorful fruits and vegetables can help keep your body healthy! In this nutrition lesson for kids, Maggie Neola, Registered Dietician, talks about how all of the foods that make up the nutrition rainbow can improve our health! Download your nutrition rainbow coloring sheet at PCRM.org/Kids.
An illustrated story to help children understand and cope with the problem of alcoholism or other drug addiction in the family.
Eliana Gil, Ph.D., RPT-S, ATR is affiliated with Starbright Training Institute in Northern Virginia which runs relevant, practical and integrated training programs related to play therapy and childhood trauma. The institute is focused on training therapists in trauma recovery, education and play therapy for children.
Embrace Race.org provides a list of where to find diverse children’s books and resources for creating an anti-biased children’s book collection. The list includes major hubs for discovering diverse children's books, children's book sites and blogs that support diversity. The website also offers articles on diversity topics and webinar experiences. There is a growing body of research and evidence that makes clear that children’s racial sensibilities begin to form in infancy, that almost all children develop racial and other biases by kindergarten, and that those biases become fairly entrenched by adolescence. And yet, most national organizations dedicated to children’s racial learning direct their resources mainly to middle and high school educators. There are too few resources for young children available for parents, grandparents or other caregivers or for early childhood educators. EmbraceRace helps fill that gap.
EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Programs (HAP) began in 1995 as a response to the Oklahoma City bombing. An FBI agent who had previously received EMDR therapy called requesting help, stating that the local mental health professionals were overwhelmed by the task. After a needs assessment, approximately 100 volunteer clinicians trained in EMDR therapy were rotated in to provide pro bono treatment for the bombing victims and front-line responders. A program evaluation indicated that over 80% achieved beneficial treatment effects within three sessions, in agreement with the results of a randomized study published the same year (Wilson, Becker & Tinker, 1995). Subsequently, free trainings in EMDR therapy were offered and provided to 290 clinicians in collaboration with local agencies. The feedback was so positive that a 501 (c) 3 organization was soon established. Since that time, we have changed our name to Trauma Recovery, EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Programs (Trauma Recovery/HAP) and have coordinated projects throughout the U.S. and internationally in more than 30 countries. The goals of the organization include, (a) educating the public about the effects of trauma, (b) providing support for professionals working with underserved populations, and (c) treating victims post-disaster and in war zones. Information on training and volunteer opportunities are detailed on the website.
The EMDR Institute™, founded by Dr. Francine Shapiro in 1990, offers quality trainings in the EMDR™ therapy methodology, a treatment approach which has been empirically validated in over 30 randomized studies of trauma victims. An additional 25 studies have demonstrated positive effects for the eye movement component used in EMDR therapy. The EMDR Institute website provides information about training content, locations and registration, offers EMDR therapy books and clinical aids, and provides a directory of EMDR Institute trained clinician. A comprehensive list of EMDR research articles also available.
The EMDR International Association (EMDRIA) is a 501(c) 6 non-profit professional association with over 11,000 members, headquartered in Austin, Texas. EMDRIA members are trained in EMDR therapy and seek the highest standards for the clinical use of EMDR. The organization provides local networking opportunities and Special Interest Groups for its members. EMDRIA publishes Go With That magazine quarterly with news and clinical information on EMDR therapy, and the quarterly peer-reviewed journal, The Journal of EMDR Practice and Research. EMDR therapy is an accepted psychotherapy by leading mental health organizations throughout the world for the treatment of a variety of symptoms and conditions.
