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What is mindfulness-based ecotherapy? How can it help clinicians and clients alike? Today, check out our latest video blog and take a stroll through the woods with Dr. Charlton Hall as he walks through the twelve skills of mindfulness-based ecotherapy. Available both as video and as a text transcript, this video blog w...
In this second recording, Dr. Christina Marsack-Topolewski, a licensed social worker and associate professor at Eastern Michigan University, discusses her journey into caregiving, focusing on family caregivers of individuals with disabilities and aging populations. She highlights the emotional landscape of caregiving,...
While November is National Family Caregiver Month, family caregivers across the country and around the globe often devote love, support, and energy year-round to care for one or more family members. In the United States, an estimated 53 million family caregivers or 1 in 5 Americans provide various levels of support or...
The rise of social media and the widespread use of the internet have created a revolution in how people communicate and interact globally. Because social came of age in the early 2000s (starting with the non-defunct Six Degrees site in 1997 and the Friendster site in 2002), generational differences in usage are stark....
While we may think of internet safety as being important to certain populations (e.g., kids and teens)-- internet safety can be particularly important for older adult populations as well. This blog will hopefully raise awareness about how to stay safe and secure online in an increasingly digital world.Throughout the Un...
From Dr. Christine Baker, our latest blog discusses sexual compulsivity, diving into how the nervous system comes into play, the struggles in untangling trauma, and even details how to help support and build awareness around this compulsive behavior. Dr. Baker offers a compassionate yet well-informed perspective as she...
Picture this: Eight-year-old Maya sits frozen at her desk when her teacher asks a simple question. Her shoulders are hunched, her breathing is shallow, and she looks like a deer caught in headlights. Meanwhile, across the room, ten-year-old Jackson can't sit still – he's fidgeting, tapping, and seems ready to bolt from...
In this first recording, we’re diving into dementia with Christina Marsack Topolewski— talking to a dementia researcher and clinical social worker about what it really means to support someone with memory loss, both clinically and emotionally. If you like what you hear, be sure to follow, subscribe to our newslette...
Over several decades, what we now describe as health anxiety was termed hypochondriasis in several editions of the DSM (initially classified as a neurosis in early editions of DSM, in later editions up to 2013, and later issues classified under Somatoform Disorder). Also, this term is used in the common language. What...
Autism spectrum disorder, commonly referred to as “ASD”, is a neurodevelopmental disorder. This condition is associated with ranging of social, communication, behavioral, and developmental deficits from person to person (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). The continuum of variance in presentation, severity, manif...
Mental health professionals are tasked with helping clients navigate the oh-so complex maze of the psyche. The Deconstructing Anxiety model is unique in its approach to this goal, because it targets the very root of all suffering: fear. This model offers clinicians a powerful framework to identify the&nb...
In all of the years I have counseled individuals, I have never found a theoretical foundation so useful as that of mindfulness nor a therapeutic tool as powerful as meditation. While I have not abandoned the use of cognitive therapeutic methods, I have found that meditation is the “royal road” to mindfulness and that t...
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