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The Work of Change: Why Insight is Never Enough
Insight is great, but without challenging dysfunctional thinking and behavior patterns, and most especially, without reinforcing efforts to do things differently, most people will stay feeling "stuck."Tags: decision making, in practice, motivation, therapy (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - June 23, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: General decision making in practice motivation therapy Source Type: news

Do You Have What it Takes to be a Psychotherapy Client?
It's time to take a second look at some of the lingering stereotypes surrounding psychotherapy clients.Tags: in practice, public health, society, therapy (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - June 17, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gordon Shippey Tags: General in practice public health society therapy Source Type: news

Seeing a World of Possibilities: The INTP Personality Type
Unconventional thinkers and ardent seekers of clarity and understanding, INTP personalitiy types want to know their world in a deep enough way that everything finally makes sense. As an INFP personality type myself, but just barely, sometimes I'd swear I'm an INTP instead.Tags: creativity, decision making, relationships (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - June 16, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: General creativity decision making relationships Source Type: news

A Combat Vet’s Take on PTSD
Spending an hour with a highly articulate combat veteran sharing his experience of trying to return to normal life after deployment in Afghanistan brought me to a much greater awareness of PTSD than many years of formal training.Tags: aggression, anxiety and stress, emotions, in practice (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - June 11, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: General aggression anxiety and stress emotions in practice Source Type: news

“A” is for “Acceptable”
Academic grades aren't what they used to be. Grade inflation doesn't tell us as much about student performance as it does about our motivations and fears.Tags: parenting and children, school and studies, society (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - June 9, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gordon Shippey Tags: General parenting and children school and studies society Source Type: news

Becoming a Better Person: Covert Self-Monitoring and Self-Reinforcement
Give yourself a pat on the back when you deserve it, while also recognizing when you're about to engage in old patterns of behavior or self-defeating cycles, and you'll be well on the way to becoming the kind of person you're capable of being.Tags: in practice, mindful awareness, therapy (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - June 2, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: General in practice mindful awareness therapy Source Type: news

Hypomania: What It Is and How to Recognize It
It's easy to mistake some of the signs of hypomania as merely peculiar aspects of someone's personality -- but it's hard for anyone to function optimally when hypomanic.Tags: bipolar, therapy (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - May 27, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: General bipolar therapy Source Type: news

Earning the Respect You Deserve
Everyone knows how to show respect, but what about earning respect, even commanding respect?Tags: positive psychology, relationships, society, work-life (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - May 20, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gordon Shippey Tags: General positive psychology relationships society work-life Source Type: news

Going Postal: The Common Denominator
The common denominator in cases of people "losing it" suggests that something may be amiss in in our understanding of the role and value of punishment when attempting to instill discipline in our children.Tags: aggression, parenting and children, society, violence (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - May 19, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: General aggression parenting and children society violence Source Type: news

Tools of Assertiveness: Decide, Plan, Act
To foster an assertive personality, actively taking care of yourself in a way that still respects the rights and needs of others, practice applying these simple steps: decide, plan, act.Tags: decision making, motivation, work-life (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - May 13, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: General decision making motivation work-life Source Type: news

Leisure is for the Poor?
What can we make of new statistics that show poor workers working fewer hours than rich workers?Tags: news and research, politics, society, work-life (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - May 12, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gordon Shippey Tags: General news and research politics society work-life Source Type: news

Making Sense in Therapy
Clients come to therapy looking for logical reasons for their behavior. Sometimes I have to disappoint them. But there are often better questions to ask than "why?" Tags: communication, therapy (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - May 6, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gordon Shippey Tags: General communication therapy Source Type: news

Flight 370 and the Need for Cognitive Closure
The passage of time in itself is not enough to assuage the pain victims of tragedies feel. Only a sense of closure can do that, and that requires information and sensible explanations.Tags: bereavement, death, denial (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - May 5, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: General bereavement death denial Source Type: news

Anatomy of the Crackdown
What does it mean when someone suddenly "gets tough" and starts making demands? "Crackdown" behavior has predictable causes and predictable results.Tags: aggression, communication, control, motivation, parenting and children, work-life (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - April 30, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gordon Shippey Tags: General aggression communication control motivation parenting and children work-life Source Type: news

Affection and Approval: Two Things that Matter for Character
Many parents truly love their children but use the giving or withholding of affection as way of motivating their children to please. While children who learn that only if they meet and heed parental expectations will they "feel the love" might very well strive to please, their compliance with parental expectations comes at a steep emotional price.Tags: character disturbance, parenting and children (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - April 28, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: General character disturbance parenting and children Source Type: news