A cancer diagnosis can cause PTSD, and poor social skills can be physically harmful. These issues and more are explored in this look at recent research.
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3 Vital CBT Techniques for OCD
Help clients break free from the compulsions controlling them with these CBT techniques for obsessive compulsive disorder.
Two Vital CBT Techniques I Always Use for Depression
Help free your clients from unhelpful depressive thought patterns by working with their unconscious and conscious minds.
How to Help the Client Who Doesn’t Want Therapy
Arguing against a reluctant client will push them further away. Follow these reframing tips to help them see the benefits therapy can bring.
The Dark Side of Your Emotional Needs – Connection
Part five in the series explores our innate human desire for a sense of community and how it can work against us.
Treating the Yo-Yo Dieter
Help your clients reach a stable, sustainable weight with these five techniques.
The Dark Side of Your Emotional Needs – Intimacy
Part four in the series explores how the need for love and intimacy can lead to stalking, accepting abuse and impossible relationships.
Research Roundup 3: Writing Away Worries, Sleep Deprivation for Depression, and More
Did you know your brain registers familiar faces, even if you don’t? A peek at five psychological studies and their relationships to everyday life.
The Dark Side of Your Emotional Needs – Control
Part three of the series explores the need for control and how it can betray us when it is met in unhealthy ways.