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3 DBT Skills Everyone Can Benefit From

By Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. – Associate Editor Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a highly effective type of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), originally created to treat borderline personality disorder. Today, it’s used to treat a variety of conditions, such as bipolar disorder, eating disorders and depression. DBT teaches clients four sets of behavioral skills: mindfulness; distress tolerance; interpersonal effectiveness; and emotion […]

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5 Things That Help a Child with High Sensitivity and Anxiety

By Grace Malonai, PH.D. LPCC., Parenting Topic Expert Contributor Anxiety is a surprisingly common problem in children. If your child has sensory processing issues or sensory hypersensitivity, you may have already witnessed how these can bring about or intensify anxiety. These sensory issues aren’t always limited to one type of sensory input. Hypersensitivity can be found in any

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Well-Being Is a Skill: A Cheat Sheet for Daily Practice

Lara Fielding Clinical psychologist, emphasizing the promotion of stress resilience and emotion regulation through mindfulness skills training. Well-Being is a Practice FACT: Emotional well-being is NOT the human default mode. We may stumble upon moments of equilibrium when there are few or no challenges in the environment. But, most of the time, and certainly if you

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Why Mindfulness Alone Isn’t Enough for Growth

By Manuel A.Manotas, Psy.D, MIndfulness-Based Approaches/Contemplative Approaches Topic Expert Contributor  As we develop in the practice of mindfulness, our capacity to be with our experience increases, and our relationship with ourselves softens and becomes sweeter. Being with our experience in a direct way—with a nonjudgmental attitude of curiosity—is at the core of mindfulness practice. While

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Mindfulness study to track effect of meditation on 7,000 teenagers

Photograph: Vladimir Serov/Blend Images/Corbis Psychologists and neuroscientists from Oxford University and University College London plan unprecedented trial of how mindfulness affects mental health. Seven thousand teenagers wrestling with the churning emotions of adolescence, exam stress and peer pressure are to take part in an unprecedented trial of the effect of mindfulness meditation on mental health.

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Learning to Accept Our Emotions: Lessons from Disney’s ‘Inside Out’

By Jennifer Wolkin, Ph.D  I rrecently had the opportunity to see Disney Pixar’s latest animated feature, “Inside Out.” I didn’t need much prompting: it’s a movie about feelings, and I’m a psychologist. It did not disappoint. Here’s a quick synopsis of the film’s premise (spoiler alert): An 11-year-old girl named Riley moves cross-country with her family.

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