"Any unexplained phenomenon passes through three stages before the reality of it is accepted. During the first stage it is considered laughable. During the second stage, it is adamantly opposed. Finally, during the third stage, it is accepted as self-evident. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

Posts tagged with 'family'

Attachment, compassion & relationships

6th September 2009

Well I didn't sleep too well last night. Catero, my wife, and I went to the cinema yesterday evening and watched "500 Days of Summer" . I enjoyed it and it got me thinking about relationships. The "Summer" of the title is a woman who doesn't believe in romantic love. …

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Recent research: six papers on helping children & adolescents

21st May 2009

Here are half a dozen papers on helping kids and adolescents. The Fuligni et al paper found that adolescents experiencing frequent interpersonal stresses tended to have increased levels of C-reactive protein, " ... an inflammatory marker that is a key indicator of cardiovascular risk ... ". Jackson et al showed …

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Handouts & questionnaires for healthy sexuality, sexual dysfunctions, and for abuse

9th February 2009

Here are a series of handouts,questionnaires and book suggestions for healthy sexuality, for sexual dysfunctions, and for abuse screening. Touch, sex & caring - this two page Word handout is rather dated now, but still makes a series of very valid points. Sexual interaction inventory - this questionnaire asks about …

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Handouts & questionnaires for couples, marriage, and parenting

2nd February 2009

Here are a series of questionnaires and handouts on couples and also on parenting. Intimate bond measure scale & scoring handout page 1 & page 2 - this is the scale I use most often when assessing quality of couple relationships. I often get people to score the IBM both …

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Recent research: mothers, children & depression

30th October 2008

Here are five recent papers on mothers, families, children and depression. The first is a freely viewable editorial by Markowitz which begins with a quote from the Aeneid "I cannot bear a mother's tears". Markowitz looks at evidence demonstrating the importance of both nature (genetic risk) and nurture (effects of …

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Handouts & questionnaires for life review, traumatic memories & therapeutic writing

29th September 2008

I've been working on the 'Life review, traumatic memories & therapeutic writing' handouts list in the Good Knowledge section of this website. I detail them below: Chart, early years (0 to 13) - this is the first of six charts that I sometimes use to get an outline of the …

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Draft SIGN non-pharmacological depression treatments guideline, 7th post: effectiveness of psychological therapies 2

24th September 2008

This is the 7th blog post in a series reviewing the recent Scottish Intercollegiate Guideline Network's (SIGN) draft guideline for "Non-pharmacological management of depression". I gave more background details in the first post of the series. This post covers the third session of the guideline presentation seminar. The session was …

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