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Aug. 27, 2020
 
 
 
 
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Primum Cura Te Ipsum: First, Heal Thyself
CT Online
When it comes to counselor self-care, avoiding burnout is not enough. In order to be competent therapists, clinicians need to attend to their own trauma, developmental journeys and growth. It’s crucially important for counselors to “do their own work.”
 
 
 
 
A Climbable Mountain: Quitting Smoking and Managing Mental Health
CT Online
Managing your mental health while freeing yourself from tobacco is possible — and professional counselors are well-equipped to support you on the climb.
 
 
Brain-Based Assessment and Treatment with Young Clients
ACA Publications
Brain-based therapeutic concerns can include everything from anxiety and depression, to learning disabilities, to ADHD and other behavioral issues. Neuroscience-Informed Counseling with Children and Adolescents by Thomas Field and Michelle Ghoston is the first text to demonstrate how neuroscience concepts can be applied to work with today’s youth. Written for counselors, this book provides accurate, clear and relevant information on neuroscience that is immediately useful. Drs. Field and Ghoston give in-session examples of neuroscience-informed approaches to behavior modification, play therapy, cognitive behavior therapy, biofeedback, neurofeedback, and therapeutic lifestyle change with diverse clients in a variety of settings.
 
 
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Anxiety in the Time of COVID-19
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Anxiety is one of the most common mental health issues that drives help-seeking behaviors in clients. And the COVID-19 pandemic may add stress that can exacerbate symptoms of anxiety. People face many new challenges and societal changes related to the pandemic: increased caretaking responsibilities, working from home, distance learning for children and reduced physical connection.
 
 
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The Case Against the Bucket List
Psychology Today
My guess is that you have not crossed anything off your bucket list in the last few months. Unless, that is, you had giving a talk in your underwear on your bucket list. You may think it is a bad thing, but in fact, it is not. Bucket lists are bad for you. A bucket list is the list of things you absolutely want to do before you die — before you kick the bucket. See the Taj Mahal, eat in a three Michelin star restaurant, shake hands with Barack Obama. This is a concept so deeply ingrained in our culture that there are multiple self-help books and websites dedicated to creating your own bucket list.
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Can Caregiving Cause PTSD?
Forbes
Kaci Smith, 36, recalls the gradual emergence of her PTSD symptoms about three years ago when she’d been caring for her mother at home following her mom’s 2012 stroke. “It would be things like almost feeling like a panic attack,” says Smith, a Rochester, N.Y. teacher. “If she would complain of leg pain, I would think, ‘Oh, no. It's a blood clot. We're going to have to go through all this medical stuff again.’”
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Are We Really Witnessing a “Mental Health Pandemic?”
Psychiatric Times
As a psychiatrist, I don’t need much convincing that millions of people are suffering emotionally, as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Most of us have our “war stories” to tell). For example, a recently released survey from the Centers for Disease Control found that from June 24-30, 2020, adults in the United States reported “considerably elevated adverse mental health conditions associated with COVID-19.” And yet, while well-intentioned, the casual and colloquial use of the term “pandemic” is not warranted in this context.
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Shaquille O’Neal Wishes He Could Have Shared Full Feelings with Kobe Bryant Directly
MSN
The tears streamed down Shaquille O’Neal’s face when he reflected on Kobe Bryant both a day after his death and nearly a month later at his memorial. Nearly seven months later after sharing his initial thoughts about Bryant on TNT, the tears have not fully dried. “I don’t want to see anybody go out like that and never to be able to talk to him again,” O’Neal told USA TODAY Sports about Bryant, who would have turned 42 on Sunday. “The thing that hurt me was all the stuff that I wanted to say, I hadn’t said it. I never said it.”
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8 Ways COVID-19 is Affecting Adults’ Relationships With Their Parents
PsychCentral
COVID-19 is affecting many people in many different ways. But one effect that is shared by most, perhaps virtually all, of us these days is that COVID-19 is making us feel more vulnerable. Exactly what do I mean by vulnerable? I mean many different flavors of vulnerable feelings. In this unprecedented time, you may be feeling more physically, socially, and emotionally vulnerable than usual and perhaps more so than ever before in your life. As COVID-19 drags on, the world awaiting a vaccine, many relationships have been affected. And whatever your situation with your parents, the pandemic may be complicating it.
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Why Do People Break Up? It's Not for a Lack of Satisfaction
Psychology Today
Why do relationships end? Chronically low relationship satisfaction seems like a reasonable guess. After all, relationship satisfaction is a global judgment of how happy you are with your relationship. If you're regularly unhappy or unsatisfied, that's the start of the end, right? Not so fast.
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Google Searches for Anxiety Soar to Record High at Beginning of Coronavirus Pandemic, Study Finds
CNBC
A new study found that people searched for severe anxiety-related information at record highs in March when the coronavirus pandemic was first declared a national emergency. Researchers analyzed Google Trends for terms such as “anxiety” or “panic” in combination with “attack” emerging from the U.S. dating back 16 years, according to the study. Most of the searches occurred between March 16, shortly after President Donald Trump declared a national emergency, and April 14.
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Paris Hilton Opened Up About the Emotional and Physical Abuse She Experienced as a Teen
NYLON Magazine
Paris Hilton has spent much of her life in the public eye, but the release of an upcoming YouTube documentary is focused on sharing a new side to the star. In an interview promoting the Sept. 14 release of This Is Paris, a film centered on the life of the heiress, Hilton revealed that she experienced both physical and emotional abuse at boarding school she attended as a teenager.
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Home Gardening Promotes Mental Health During COVID-19
Food Tank
Home gardening is on the rise since COVID-19, says Rose Hayden-Smith, Emeritus advisor at the University of California. And activists from food justice organizations argue that home gardening has the potential to promote emotional wellness, especially for Black women and other marginalized communities.
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Local Schools Offer Online Counseling to Help Students, Parents Cope with Back to School Stress
CBS News
The beginning of a new school year is a stressful time for almost everyone. Meeting your new teachers, finding where your classes are and dealing with the car pool lanes are enough to give anyone anxiety. Add in a pandemic, virtual classes, and around the clock mask wearing, and you can definitely see why parents and students alike, would be more stressed than usual this year.
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9 Simple Check-Ins to Identify Your Needs
PsychCentral
Tuning into our feelings, thoughts, and physical sensations is the foundation of caring well for ourselves. We have to know what’s going on in order to take healthy, nourishing action and just better understand ourselves. But the way we do these check-ins really depends on our personality and preferences. There’s no one-size-fits-all approach. The key is to incorporate a check-in into your day, regardless of what shape or form it takes.
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Restorative Circles, Online Wellness Rooms and Grief Training: How Schools Are Preparing for the Coronavirus Mental Health Crisis
Washington Post
Around the country, school leaders are trying to anticipate how mental health burdens will shape what unfolds in classrooms and via screens during a school year in which the trauma is likely to worsen. Some school districts, such as Los Angeles Unified, are running hotlines to provide guidance and connect families to services. Other schools are offering grief training to teachers, counseling them on how to recognize signs of distress, and encouraging them to attend to their own emotional well-being. Still others are setting up virtual “wellness rooms” and unveiling new or expanded “social-emotional curricula” to help students process their feelings.
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New Study Sheds Light on How Perfectionism Can Be Maladaptive, Through Beliefs About Worry and Rumination
PsyPost
In a recent study, metacognitive beliefs about worry and rumination were found to predict anxiety and depression, through their influence on perseverance behaviors. These findings were published in Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy.
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Ensuring Wellness of Post-Pandemic Employees
Chief Executive
These are the oddest of times. Few of us are living our normal lives. We do not know what will happen next or when this insidious virus will go away. Will it come back again? If I catch it how will it affect me? And what about my loved ones? Naturally, people are stressed. As a workplace psychologist, I’m often asked about the psychological effects of COVID-19 on employees. With so many possible — and often dark — scenarios, COVID-19 is a breeding ground for cognitive dissonance.
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Geriatric Patients with Depression Showing Resiliency During COVID-19 Pandemic
HCP Live
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has been difficult for most, but it has been especially challenging for older adults in the U.S. with pre-existing mental health conditions. A team, led by Megan E. Hamm, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, Department of General Internal Medicine, examined the overall effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of geriatric adults with pre-existing major depressive disorder. Their research indicated that older adults with MDD showed resilience during the initial phase of the pandemic, but the team believes that this population will need additional resources, such as ways to maintain social connection, as the pandemic continues.
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7 Ways Emotional Intelligence Can Help Us Manage Negative Emotions
Fast Company
With COVID-19, the typical negative emotions we encounter while going about our lives have been exacerbated. We may have lost our jobs, businesses, or fear we will lose them. Worries about paying rent, staying healthy, and taking care of our families have eclipsed the concerns that many of us had pre-pandemic. Every day we hear news about infections, deaths, and layoffs — and it looks like there is no end in sight. But during trying times like these, it’s not the situations themselves that make or break us, it’s how we respond to them. By using emotional intelligence, we can find ways to not only cope with negative emotions, but to use the lessons they’ve gained to move ahead.
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