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MBT-F for Parents of Difficult/Emotional Children now offered in UK
Mentalization-based Treatment for Families (MBT-F) is for parents of children between the ages of seven and 16 experiencing difficulties in the parent/child relationship. Mentalization-based Treatment for Families (MBT-F) (Detailed) Name of intervention: Mentalization-based Treatment for Families (MBT-F) Who is the programme for?: Families experiencing relationship difficulties because of child emotional or behavioural difficulties. Child outcome: Improved child behaviour Age: Primary (5-11 yrs), Secondary (11-14 yrs), Teenage (12-18 yrs) Classification: Targeted Parental needs: Any parent Workforce: QCF level 4/5 Setting: Clinic/Health centre Format: Individual Contact name: Michelle Sleed Contact email: Michelle.Sleed@annafreud.org Contact place of work: The Anna Freud Centre Mentalization-based Treatment for Families (MBT-F) is for parents of children between the…
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The Top Five Must-Have Books for Parents of People with BPD
The top five must-have books for parents of children with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). These are must-reads! [amazonshowcase_1f0f89ee4d55479627d164437604dee3] No related posts.
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Teaching Mindfulness to Children
Mindfulness, which features focused awareness training, is increasing in popularity among mental health professionals. Mindfulness training emphasizes focused attention to internal and external experiences in the present moment of time, without judgment. While mindfulness interventions have been used in treatments for stress, chronic pain, anxiety, depression, borderline personality disorder, eating disorders, and addiction, researchers suggest that this type of training also can be beneficial in everyday life. Most research and writing on mindfulness training has been about adults. In this paper, the authors argue for adapting mindfulness techniques for work with children. The authors propose that training in mindfulness has the potential to enhance children’s attention and focus, and improve memory,…
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Mom Was Right: Clean Your Room
People are apparently sensitive to information they get from the environment to the point that it influences decisions they make about what is moral and what is acceptable behavior. For emotionally sensitive people, the message from environmental cues seems to be a particularly strong. My experience is that the environment affects the mood and identity of emotionally sensitive people. Bon: I love the Emotionally Sensitive Person blog over at Psychcentral. Here is a post about an orderly environment and the effects on an emotionally sensitive person. Mom Was Right: Clean Your Room By KARYN HALL, PHD In his book Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change, Timothy Wilson described…
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Research on Temper Tantrums
Children’s temper tantrums are widely seen as many things: the cause of profound helplessness among parents; a source of dread for airline passengers stuck next to a young family; a nightmare for teachers. But until recently, they had not been considered a legitimate subject for science. Now research suggests that, beneath all the screams and kicking and shouting, lies a phenomenon that is entirely amenable to scientific dissection. Tantrums turn out to have a pattern and rhythm to them. Once understood, researchers say, this pattern can help parents, teachers and even hapless bystanders respond more effectively to temper tantrums — and help clinicians tell the difference between ordinary tantrums, which…
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Sounds like Childhood Borderline: new diagnostic category called disruptive mood dysregulation disorder, or DMDD
They might as well call it “childhood borderline”: latimes.com/health/la-he-child-temper-20111010,0,3234089.story latimes.com Child mental disorders: New diagnosis or another dilemma? A proposed new diagnosis for outbursts and tantrums sparks debate in the psychiatric community. Would it help parents desperate for answers, or just add to the confusion? By Shari Roan, Los Angeles Times October 10, 2011 advertisement The final straw for Carolyn Alves came last fall when she tried to help her daughter Cecelia dress for kindergarten. The volatile 6-year-old had worked herself into a frenzy as she tried on outfit after outfit, rejecting each as unacceptable. The tantrum at full bore, she scooped up a pile of clothes and hurled them…