Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Notice; Health Careers Opportunity Program
HRSA is issuing non-competitive program expansion supplements to all 17 fiscal year (FY) 2013 HCOP grantees to include interprofessional health educational activities focused on careers in behavioral health, such as a graduate degree in Clinical or Counseling Psychology, Clinical Social Work, and/or Marriage and Family Therapy. (Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center)
Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center - September 3, 2013 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
OCD & Siblings
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) affects not only sufferers, but their whole family as well. Being privy to the havoc the disorder often causes can be especially disrupting, confusing, and upsetting to children. While parents are likely expending every ounce of energy they have trying to help their child with OCD, I think we need to remember that siblings suffer also.
In my family’s case, my son Dan’s OCD was not evident until he started college far from home, so his two sisters weren’t around him. That’s not to say their lives weren’t affected. While our older daughter was living on her own at the time, our y...
Source: Psych Central - August 25, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Janet Singer Tags: Caregivers Disorders Family General Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Parenting Stress Excuse Fears Feelings Fifteen Hundred Miles Freshman Year Havoc Immediate Family Ocd Ounce Privy Retrospect Sibling Issues Siblings Source Type: news
Three Strategies for Dealing With Your Defiant Teen
It's not uncommon for parents of defiant teens to drop their teens off for a scheduled appointment with a therapist and expect that their parenting styles wouldn't be evaluated. In a family unit where the teen presents with an issue, it's the entire family dynamic that needs to be addressed in addition to the teen with the presenting issues.read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - July 29, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ugo Uche Tags: Child Development Parenting Race and Ethnicity black males black teen black teens brain damage criminal justice critical condition defiant teenagers defiant teens family therapist family therapy fear fourteen years friday mor Source Type: news
When In Rome Use the Criteria
Discussion
Functional gastrointestinal diseases are very common problems throughout the lifespan. Estimates vary but around 13-38% of children and adolescents have weekly abdominal pain and 24% have chronic abdominal pain that last more than 8 weeks. Chronic abdominal pain was extensively studied by John Apley in the 1950′s and since then newer criteria have been developed for distinguishing various types of abdominal pain. See Learning Point below.
A thorough history and physical examination is needed to distinguish these different types of abdominal pain and to evaluate for organic causes. Warning signs of potenti...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - July 22, 2013 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Donna M. D'Alessandro, M.D. Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Keeping the Peace as a Grandparent
Grandparents may need to be extra-cooperative and creative when their grandkids are living with an ex-spouse. Consider bringing your son's ex-wife on a vacation. read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - July 16, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Temma Ehrenfeld Tags: Parenting Relationships adult kids age groups census figures child rearing family therapy family vacation gap grandkids Grandparents households legislators marijuana middle class objections peacemaking in the family pendu Source Type: news
An adapted brief strategic family therapy for gang-affiliated Mexican American adolescents - Valdez A, Cepeda A, Parrish D, Horowitz R, Kaplan C.
This study assessed the effectiveness of an adapted Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT) intervention for gang-affiliated Mexican American adolescents and their parents.
Methods: A total of 200 adolescents and their family caregivers were rand... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - June 21, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Supportive Psychotherapy
An account of the difference between supportive psychotherapy and insight psychotherapy. A description of supportive therapy as it is done by the very many paraprofessionals and by family members.read more (Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center)
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - June 2, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Fredric Neuman, M.D. Tags: Behavioral Economics Psychiatry Relationships Therapy caring drug counselors emotional distress emotional disturbances family doctors family therapy home nurses insight psychotherapy marriage counselors mental hospital mental i Source Type: news
My Teen Cousin Is in Trouble
What you should do when it comes to teens and self-harm.read more (Source: Psychology Today Depression Center)
Source: Psychology Today Depression Center - May 23, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr. Barbara Greenberg, Ph.D. Tags: Depression Resilience baby sister brains business owner cousin cutting dad demand business education Facebook family therapy fathers greenberg high school hormonal changes most teens mothers old baby old school over Source Type: news
A preview of the efficiency of systemic family therapy in treatment of children with posttraumatic stress disorder developed after car accident - Stanković M, Grbesa G, Kostić J, Simonović M, Milenković T, Visnjić A.
BACKGROUND/AIM: Traumatic stress refers to physical and emotional reactions caused by events which represent a life threat or a disturbance of physical and phychological integrity of a child, as well as their parents or gaerdians. Car accidents are the mai... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - April 28, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Effects of structural family therapy on child and maternal mental health symptomatology - Weaver A, Greeno CG, Marcus SC, Fusco RA, Zimmerman T, Anderson C.
Objective: This pilot study examined the effect of structural family therapy (SFT) on children's impairment and depressive symptomatology and mothers' depressive symptomatology and anxiety for 31 families served by a community mental health clinic. Method:... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - April 14, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Getting Unhooked from Pain & Choosing Happiness
Even teens who are popular and appear to be doing well may feel secretly isolated emotionally, harboring distress that seeks expression through self-destructive behavior.
Neurobiology of Breaking Habits
Self-destructive behavior patterns, such as addictions, are hard to break because they provide immediate relief. But their aftermath makes people defeated and ashamed, requiring more relief, and the cycle continues. These habitual, compulsive behavior patterns limit new learning and connections in the brain by obstructing opportunities to experience the positive rewards from sustainable, effective coping strategies.
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Source: Psych Central - March 11, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Lynn Margolies, Ph.D. Tags: Children and Teens Disorders Family General Loneliness Parenting Psychotherapy Self-Esteem Students Treatment Badness Behavior Patterns Choosing Happiness Compulsive Behavior Coping Strategies Early Childhood Epilepsy Fea Source Type: news
Arab parents' reactions to child sexual abuse: a review of clinical records - Abu-Baker K.
This paper addresses parents' reactions to sexual abuse cases in their families. The study analyzed the clinical records of individual and family therapy sessions with 35 cases of Arab Palestinian clients, citizens of Israel (27 individuals and 8 families)... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - February 2, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
