Mental Health Stresses of Adolescence
The adolescent years are challenging even in relatively problem-free famiies. All bets are off, and what had been true for ten or eleven years is suddenly not true. The well-behaved…
How CBT Was Born
Mary Cover Jones used behavior therapy with fearful children in the 1920s, and in the late 1930s, an American psychiatrist, Abraham Low, used cognitive training for psychiatric aftercare of patients…
Is your mental health damaging your life?
Can you imagine a life in which you turn away from negative news in the environment and avoid monopolizing the conversation with long litanies concerning your life’s dark pitfalls? If…
Goals and Outcomes of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
In order for you to get the most out of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, you will need specific goals instead of vague hopes. For example, if you’re unhappy and want to…
Mistaken Thoughts about Mental Health
One of the seductive mistaken thoughts is that a situation is a catastrophe. In psychology this is called catastrophizing, a habit of thought and belief that causes chaos and drains…









