Those who suffer from Attachment Disorders experience a difficulty to bond that results from deprivation, trauma, and abandonment that occurs from a young age. Those suffering from AD typically demonstrate remarkedly inappropriate social relatedness (such as being unresponsive to care from a caregiver, while indiscriminately affectionate towards strangers), stemming from a history of neglect in their early years.
Positive Psychology is the scientific study of what makes life most worth living. It is more than a focus on fleeting happiness or warm feelings. Rather, it places great emphasis on meaning, helping t...
View ConditionA form of in-depth talk therapy, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy works to bring forth the unconscious content of a patient’s psyche in order to alleviate psychic tension. In bringing buried thoughts or f...
View ConditionMeditation is a practice in mindfulness. While many think that it is the practice of “turning off one’s thoughts,” this actually isn’t true. Meditation is instead about learning to observe one’s thoug...
View ConditionIn layman’s terms, assertiveness training is a kind of behavioral therapy that teaches patients how to stand up for themselves. The goal is to teach the individual how to appropriately voice their nee...
View ConditionAcceptance and Commitment Therapy, of ACT, is a kind of clinical behavioral analysis that focuses on helping patients to accept facts or situations they may be overreacting to or avoiding. It uses acc...
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