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What do children who are picky eaters and staid adults have in common?Tags: decision making, relationships, therapy, work-life (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - April 22, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gordon Shippey Tags: General decision making relationships therapy work-life Source Type: news

Towards the Metallic Family
Leave It To Beaver taught us that family was all about Mom, Dad and the kids. But my in-laws have shown me an older model of family life that works surprisingly well in the 21st century. Tags: parenting and children, relationships, society (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - April 15, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gordon Shippey Tags: General parenting and children relationships society Source Type: news

Teen Suicide: Understanding the Risks and Warning Signs
In some age groups, suicide accounts for more deaths than cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia, influenza, and all the various chronic lung diseases combined.Tags: depression, public health, suicide (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - April 14, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: General depression public health suicide Source Type: news

The Ugly Truth About Grades
Students, parents and politicians alike obsess about GPAs, standardized test scores and national student rankings. But if we looked more closely at how we measure student success, would we still value these metrics?Tags: parenting and children, society, technology (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - April 8, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gordon Shippey Tags: General parenting and children society technology Source Type: news

Deeper Into the “Sportsman’s Instinct”
As a group, aggressive personalities are among the most potentially problematic individuals, especially in relationships.Tags: aggression, character disturbance, personality disorders, violence (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - April 7, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: General aggression character disturbance personality disorders violence Source Type: news

5 Ways to Simplify and Enrich Your Life
Sometimes, the whole enterprise we call life can overwhelm us and, when life becomes too chaotic and demanding, it can also cause anxiety and depression. If you're feeling overwhelmed, here are some ways to simplify your life.Tags: boundaries, decision making, positive psychology, work-life (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - April 2, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: General boundaries decision making positive psychology work-life Source Type: news

The Missing Element in Science: Encouragement
Carl Sagan's masterpiece, Cosmos, made science simultaneously accessable and transcendent. Neil deGrasse Tyson's reboot of the venerable series is most remarkable not for galaxies or geniuses, but for a simple gesture of kindness between these two men, decades ago.Tags: creativity, school and studies, work-life (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - April 1, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gordon Shippey Tags: General creativity school and studies work-life Source Type: news

Gaslighting Revisited: A Closer Look at This Manipulation Tactic
If you're on the receiving end of covert aggression, you might sense in your gut some kind of victimization at play but be unable point to anything that clearly and objectively backs up your hunch. This "dirty fighting" may leave you feeling more than a little crazy.Tags: character disturbance, relationships (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - March 25, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: General character disturbance relationships Source Type: news

How to Be Lucky
Are successful people successful because of hard work or dumb luck? Researchers are zeroing in on an answer.Tags: decision making, meaning, news and research, responsibility, work-life (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - March 24, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gordon Shippey Tags: General decision making meaning news and research responsibility work-life Source Type: news

The Power of Perspective: Five Flawed World Views
Each of us filters and frames reality through our own perspective, our own "world view"; here are five of the world views that can set us up for problems when it comes to personality development and interpersonal functioning.Tags: CBT, character disturbance, personality disorders (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - March 18, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: General CBT character disturbance personality disorders Source Type: news

“Lazy” is a Lousy Diagnosis
Of all the explanations of human behavior, laziness is one that many of us reach for quickly but which adds little to the discussion. When someone seems lazy, what's really going on?Tags: character disturbance, personality disorders, relationships, society, work-life (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - March 17, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gordon Shippey Tags: General character disturbance personality disorders relationships society work-life Source Type: news

Addiction and Character: Lessons from Rodman
Just as it's part of the very nature of substance abuse and addiction to deny the obvious, it's part of the nature of character disturbance for the person with character impairments to think that there's nothing wrong.Tags: addiction, character disturbance, responsibility (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - March 10, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: General addiction character disturbance responsibility Source Type: news

Jobs for Zombies
Instead of trying to be always at our best, we can do better by setting ourselves up for success even when we're "brain-dead."Tags: in practice, mindful awareness, motivation, work-life (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - March 4, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gordon Shippey Tags: General in practice mindful awareness motivation work-life Source Type: news

Putting the “B” Back into Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
While many clinicians claim to employ cognitive-behavioral principles in their strategies, often their interventions go light on the behavioral aspects of CBT and wind up looking far more like Cognitive Therapy (CT) than CBT.Tags: addiction, CBT, in practice, therapy (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - March 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: General addiction CBT in practice therapy Source Type: news

It Takes Two to Argue
Arguing is one of the most upsetting events we experience in a lifetime, and it has a tremendous potential for damaging relationships. But I believe that if you don't want to argue, and you have the skills, you can stop arguments before they start.Tags: anger, communication, social skills (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - February 25, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gordon Shippey Tags: General anger communication social skills Source Type: news