Getting It Together: Group and Family Therapies
Not all therapy is conducted on an individual basis. Group and family therapies often add a valuable dimension. Group members learn from each other and in the process discover things about themselves. The same is true of family therapy and how they ...
In the Driver's Seat: Eating Behaviors and Disorders
With the abundance of tasty food available, it is easy to overeat, a fact complicated by our cultural fixation on thinness. The pressure to be thin, combined with other factors, leads to such eating disorders as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa....
The Growing Years: Social Development and Attachment
From the moment of birth, children are social creatures. Infants in all cultures develop an intense bond with their caregivers, a bond researchers call attachment. The experiences children have in the first years of life shape their sense of themsel...
Getting It Together: Choosing a Therapist
Research shows that the style of the therapist even more than the nature of the therapy determines whether or not there is a beneficial outcome. It is important to find a therapist who is not only license and properly credentialed, but is also someo...
Family Violence: Incidence of Intimate Partner Violence in the U. S., The
Over the course of their lives, one-third of all American women experience physical violence at the hand of their intimate partners over the course of their lives. Children who are exposed to such family violence grow up to use abuse themselves as ...
Family Violence: Implementing Intervention Strategies
If violence has its grips on a family or a community, prevention is no longer enough; it is time to intervene. Shelters that house abused women and children and support groups combined with individual therapy can be extremely helpful as we see in t...
Getting It Together: Does Psychotherapy Really Work?
People with psychological disorders do get better, and they tend to attribute their improvement to the therapy, but the question is would they have gotten better with no treatment at all. The key is research, which is difficult given confidentiality...
People to People: Breeding Grounds for Violence
Violence breeds in neighborhoods where children go to sleep at night hearing gunfire. It lurks behind the closed doors of a family home in which intimate partner violence and child abuse are a way of life. Children who grow up with violence become p...