The program is presented by Wendy Maltz,
M.S.W., a licensed marriage counselor, certified sex therapist, author of the
book “The Sexual Healing Journey: A Guide for Survivors of Sexual
Abuse” (Harper Collins, 1991) and co-author of “Incest and Sexuality:
A Guide to Understanding and Healing” (Lexington Books, 1987). This video
is produced and distributed by InterVision Media, an award winning producer of
health education materials. “Partners in Healing” breaks new ground
as it explores the dynamics of couples in various stages of therapy, working
together to heal the emotional scars of incest. “Partners in Healing”
can help incest survivors and their therapists learn: -How incest affects
sexuality -How partners can both be included in and involved in treatment as a
couple -How both partners are affected by the intimacy problems that result
form incest -How they can work together to become true partners in healing
From Amazon.com: ““…
thoughtful tools for helping young people help themselves.”
—Library Journal
Parenting
a teen isn’t easy, but parenting an anxious teen is especially challenging.
Written by a psychologist and expert on adolescent anxiety, this essential book
will show you what really works to overcome all types of teen anxiety and how
to apply specific skills to support your teen.
Most parents find it frustrating when common
sense and logical methods such as reassurance don’t seem to work to allay their
teen’s anxiety. They want to know: Why is anxiety so hard to get
rid of once it takes hold? Why aren’t my efforts to help working?
And how can I best help my teen break free from anxiety to become happy and
resilient?
This powerful book, based on cutting-edge
research and cognitive behavioral strategies, will help you develop the
know-how to effectively manage teen anxiety. You’ll learn the best ways
to support your teen in overcoming problematic thinking and fears, discover
what behaviors and coping strategies unwittingly make anxiety worse, and
understand how anxiety is best defeated with surprisingly counterintuitive
methods. Step-by-step guidance, along with numerous real-life examples
and exercises, will help you to:
Sensitively redirect your teen’s worries when
they intensify
Reduce social anxiety, perfectionism, and
panic attacks
Proactively address common triggers of stress
and anxiety
Implement a proven approach for decreasing
avoidance and facing fears
From overcoming minor angst
to defeating paralyzing fear, you and your teen will feel empowered by
radically new ways of responding to anxiety. With Helping Your Anxious
Teen, you’ll have a wealth of research-backed strategies to lead you in
being an effective anxiety coach for your teen.”
Research shows that children with anxious
parents are up to seven times more likely than other children to develop
anxiety. An untreated anxiety disorder in a child is one of the top predictors
of depression in adolescence and early adulthood, but it is also the most
successfully treated mental health challenge. In this episode of Keep Talking,
treatment specialist Lynn Lyons, LICSW, shares with Gay Maxwell of the
Brattleboro Retreat what families can do to externalize, manage, and liberate
themselves from the tyranny of anxiety with results that include new problem
solving skills and greater self-confidence when facing uncertainty.
From Amazon.com: “With anxiety at
epidemic levels among our children, Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents offers a contrarian yet effective approach to help
children and teens push through their fears, worries, and phobias to ultimately
become more resilient, independent, and happy.
How do you manage a child who gets stomachaches every school
morning, who refuses after-school activities, or who is trapped in the bathroom
with compulsive washing? Children like these put a palpable strain on
frustrated, helpless parents and teachers. And there is no escaping the
problem: One in every five kids suffers from a diagnosable anxiety disorder.
Unfortunately, when parents or professionals offer help in
traditional ways, they unknowingly reinforce a child’s worry and avoidance.
From their success with hundreds of organizations, schools, and families, Reid
Wilson, PhD, and Lynn Lyons, LICSW, share their unconventional approach of
stepping into uncertainty in a way that is currently unfamiliar but infinitely
successful. Using current research and contemporary examples, the book exposes
the most common anxiety-enhancing patterns—including reassurance,
accommodation, avoidance, and poor problem solving—and offers a concrete
plan with 7 key principles that foster change. And, since new research
reveals how anxious parents typically make for anxious children, the book offers
exercises and techniques to change both the children’s and the parental patterns of thinking and behaving.
This book challenges our basic instincts about how to help
fearful kids and will serve as the antidote for an anxious nation of kids and
their parents.”
Mindfulness’s attention to the here and now.
It’s being fully present in the moment. You are experiencing the present moment
and non-judgmental way. The brain model of depression is hypo-connectivity
between the neurons in certain parts of the brain that regulate and process
your emotions and a hyper connectivity in the default mode network. In this
video I discussed what the default mode network is and how it relates to
depression. I also discuss how mindfulness changes these connectivity patterns.
Here are the specific structures of that brain that make up the default mode
network. The posterior cingulate cortex (PCC; areas 23/31), the precuneus, and
the medial frontal cortex (MFC, including areas 24/10-m/32), as well as
bilateral inferior parietal and posterior temporal areas around the
temporoparietal junction area. Here is how you download the body scan audio.
Click this link: http://markspsychiatry.com/mindfulness/
References Matthew A. Killingsworth, Daniel T. Gilbert A Wandering Mind Is an
Unhappy Mind. SCIENCE12 NOV 2010 : 932 Defines the structures in the Default
Mode Network Yang CC, Barrós-Loscertales A, Pinazo D, et al. State and training
effects of mindfulness meditation on brain networks reflect neuronal mechanisms
of its antidepressant effect. Neural Plast. 2016;2016:9504642. Farb NA,
Anderson AK, Segal ZV. The mindful brain and emotion regulation in mood
disorders. Can J Psychiatry. 2012;57(2):70-7. V. A. Taylor, V. Daneault, J.
Grant et al., “Impact of meditation training on the default mode network during
a restful state,” Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, vol. 8, no. 1,
pp. 4–14, 2013. Defines/establishes the default mode network Gusnard DA,
Akbudak E, Shulman GL, Raichle ME. Medial prefrontal cortex and
self-referential mental activity: relation to a default mode of brain function.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001;98(7):4259-64. Brown, K. W., West, A. M.,
Loverich, T. M., & Biegel, G. M. (2011). Assessing adolescent mindfulness:
Validation of an Adapted Mindful Attention Awareness Scale in adolescent
normative and psychiatric populations. Psychological Assessment, 23(4),
1023-1033 Article about neuroconnectivity as the basis for depression R. H.
Kaiser, J. R. Andrews-Hanna, T. D. Wager, and D. A. Pizzagalli, “Large-scale
network dysfunction in major depressive disorder: a meta-analysis of
resting-state functional connectivity,” JAMA Psychiatry, vol. 72, no. 6, pp.
603–611, 2015. Mindfulness prevents relapse best in people with 3 or more
episodes Ma, S. H., & Teasdale, J. D. (2004). Mindfulness-Based Cognitive
Therapy for Depression: Replication and Exploration of Differential Relapse
Prevention Effects. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 72(1),
31-40. Disclaimer: All of the information on this channel is for educational
purposes and not intended to be specific/personal medical advice from me to
you. Watching the videos or getting answers to comments/question, does not
establish a doctor-patient relationship. If you have your own doctor, perhaps
these videos can help prepare you for your discussion with your doctor. I
upload every Wednesday at 9am, and sometimes have extra videos in between.
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How to manage bipolar disorder. Even though
medication is the mainstay of managing bipolar disorder, there are ways you can
manage bipolar disorder naturally without medication (or independent of your
medication). The first step is to identify what triggers you to get off your
normal cycle. People with Bipolar Disorder are sensitive to even small
disruptions in their equilibrium. Step two is to keep a mood diary. This can
help you see how you are progressing or when you are moving from one episode to
another. Step three is to establish a daily routine. Step five is to have an
activity plan that you implement when you are oversleeping or withdrawing
during your depressed phase. Step five is to implement dark therapy for the
manic periods. Step six is to establish a relapse prevention plan. DOWNLOAD THE
PACKET HERE http://markspsychiatry.com/manage-bip…
References Barbini B1, Benedetti F, Colombo C, Dotoli D, Bernasconi A,
Cigala-Fulgosi M, Florita M, Smeraldi E. Dark therapy for mania: a pilot study.
Bipolar Disord. 2005 Feb;7(1):98-101. Henriksen TE, Skrede S, Fasmer OB, et al.
Blue‐blocking glasses as additive treatment for mania: a
randomized placebo‐controlled trial. Bipolar Disorders. 2016;18(3):221-232.
Harvey AG: Sleep and circadian rhythms in bipolar disorder: seeking synchrony,
harmony, and regulation. Am J Psychiatry 2008; I upload every Wednesday at 9am,
and sometimes have extra videos in between. Subscribe to my channel so you
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Bipolar disorder vs. depression? It’s not
always easy to tell. The symptoms of bipolar disorder include depression
symptoms. So you may wonder, am I depressed or bipolar? Many people will be
diagnosed with depression for years before they have a manic or hypomanic
episode, which is the main sign that you have bipolar disorder vs depression.
In this video I give you 5 signs that your depression is more likely part of
bipolar disorder and not unipolar depression. References: Aiken, Chris B. et
al. The Bipolarity index: a clinician-rated measure of diagnostic confidence.
Journal of Affective Disorders , Volume 177 , 59 – 64 I upload every Wednesday
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