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Teen Cutting and Self-Injury: Why Do They Do This?
Today a concerned parent commented to my blog “Could My Teen Commit Suicide?” by describing his 14 year old daughter who had begun cutting herself. He asked “Could this be a warning sign?” Also today...
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Ten Strategies To Cope With The 10th Anniversary of 9/11
On Sunday we commemorate the 10th Anniversary of 9/11, an event of unthinkable proportion in terms of the destruction of civilian lives and life as we knew it. Globally, millions will bear witness to...
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Mental Health Day: Suicide Protection Across Generations
Suicide ranks as the eleventh leading cause of death in the United States. We have lost loved ones across the generations. Older Americans are disproportionately likely to die by suicide. Although they...
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“The Hunger Games”: Some Suggestions For Parents
The new film, “The Hunger Games,” based on the novel by Suzanne Collins, has outstripped Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax as the top grossing film this year. Perhaps because it is based on a young adult novel...
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Strategies for Healing the Psychological Impact of Medical Illness
In the preceding blog, we considered the importance of recognizing medical illness as psychological trauma. In this blog we report on an interview with Michele Rosenthal, author of the trauma recovery...
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The Denver Movie Shooting: A Dark Catastrophe
The definition of catastrophe is an event causing great and often sudden damage or suffering. The early morning shooting and killing of 12 people and wounding of others as they eagerly began viewing...
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Reducing Marital Stress Helps Children Return to School
When children head back to school this year, they should not be carrying emotional baggage from home. When we worry about how our children will handle school- what they will face and how they will...
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Raising Teens Without Ruining Your Marriage: Three Principles
Whereas most people are warned that the blessed event of a new baby may challenge the romance in their marriage – not enough warning is given to parents of teens. Lulled by the relative calm of the...
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Cell Phones: A Near and Possible Danger for Young Children
In an earlier blog I considered the dangers of teens sleeping with cell phones. Specifically that the “ on call status” was in most cases not choice but obligation, anxious need, and even addiction. A...
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Could My Child Be Depressed? Important Answers
While we often associate depression with the teen years, the recognition and treatment of depression in children is more easily overlooked. She’s a kid—she’ll grow out of it. He’s just moody–don’t make...
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Preventing Teen Suicide:The Importance of Information and Connection
It is difficult to look too closely at what baffles and terrifies us— teen suicide is one of those realities. Suicide is the third leading cause of death in the U.S. for young people between the ages...
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The Most Important Key to Blending Families: Time
Given that 50% of all marriages end in divorce; 75% of all divorce persons eventually re-marry and about 65% of remarriages involve children from the prior marriage– there are many parents and children...
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Being Mothers, Making Mistakes, Embracing Self-Compassion
If you are a mother, you have made mistakes. You are not alone. If you are a grandmother, you are under the illusion that you can rectify some of those mistakes. You are not alone. Given the early...
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