Many clients who come to see me in therapy are coping with an acute injury or health change. For example, they may have sustained an injury while playing a sport or been... Read more »
Imagine this. Nearly every teen in Teentown hangs out at the same place: the Teentown Pool. It’s the place to connect, meet new people, learn about parties, and unwind. There’s just one... Read more »
The biopsychosocial model is the view that health and illness result from the interaction of biological, psychological and social factors. George Engel proposed it in 1977 as an alternative to the biomedical... Read more »
The biomedical model is the Western medical view that health is the absence of disease. It holds that disease is a biological fault such as a germ, a gene or a chemical... Read more »
This is Part 3 of a series on loved ones in health decline. Read Part 1 and Part 2 here. The adage “You can’t pour from an empty cup” seems trite and... Read more »
Anticipatory grief, regret, triggering, guilt: All of these and more may be ingredients of the stew of complex emotions swirling around for adult children of a dying parent. For the adult child... Read more »
For those of us who grew up in dysfunctional and/or chaotic households, control may have been a tool we used to cope with the uncontrollable. However, as you probably know, the belief... Read more »
Before Russia invaded his country, Vladyslav Sentiakov envisioned building a family and being a steady provider. To further that ambition, the florist from the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv volunteered to join... Read more »
The Lindsay Clancy trial is about criminal responsibility, but the public conversation surrounding it is also about something larger: what we expect from mothers, how we recognize women’s psychological suffering, and what... Read more »
Imagine something wonderful just happened. You got the job you’d been circling for years. Or the acceptance letter arrived from your dream school. By any measure, this should be a good day.... Read more »