Blog posts on parenting issues
Feb 12 2015
What is Self-Harm and How Do You Deal with it in Children & Teens? – Vol. 298, February 12, 2015 I am sitting in front of one of my bulimic clients taking her Detailed Personal History. In answering a question that I asked regarding her ever having felt so depressed that she wanted to take her …
Oct 23 2014
Why Do Our Docs Hand Out Psychotropic Medication So Easily to Our Children: The Side Effects Are Harming Them – Vol. 282, October 23, 2014 It seems that with the use of the bible of the mental health professionals, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental Disorders, that even the most of normal emotions and …
Oct 16 2014
Heal Our Children, Heal The World – Vol. 281, October 16, 2014 I have been thinking a lot lately about how best to be a channel of healing for our world. The answer was right in front of me really. I realized that through my work with kids who are around 9 to around 23 years …
Sep 29 2014
In her article, More Kids Than Ever Are on Antipsychotics: But is There an Alternative? (Forbes online, August 18, 2012) Alice G. Walton reports that the prescribing of antipsychotics for kids jumped seven times from the years 1993-1990 and 2005-2009. She sites a professional paper stating that attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder accounted for 37.8% of antipsychotic …
Jul 21 2014
Suzanne works with a child how habitually pulls at the hairs in his eyebrows. This action was caused buy what the child perceived as a traumatic act earlier in his life. Suzanne also discusses how this treatment may word differently for adults
Mar 06 2014
4 Suggestions in How To Have Happy Kids – Vol. 241, March 6, 2014 There are many stories out there about kids who are suffering from anxiety, depression and drug addiction. How about we speak to how to prevent these problems from occurring? The most important gift that you can give your kid is …