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The Changing Time of Adolescence
Adolescent is a Latin word meaning to grow up or nearing maturity. Anyone who actually has an adolescent in their house will be tickled to know that the word is very closely related to alere, another Latin word meaning to eat. Whereas the word teenager simply...
Suicidal Ideation
Suicide is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States, and the leading cause of death among adolescents. On today’s show we take a look at what motivates one to think about and attempt suicide. We will also consider some of the treatments for suicidal...
Different Kinds of Therapists, Imagination, and Raising Teens
Join me this week as I distinguish some of the major differences between the various kinds of therapists, I also examine what Aristotle says about the imagination, and I talk to my friends Raymond and Nicole Tittmann about what it’s like to raise Catholic Teens.
Treating OCD, Sight, and Spiritual Direction
Join me as I consider the methods of treating Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Aristotle’s treatment of the sense of sight, and I begin to answer the question, “What is the relationship between psychology and spiritual direction?”
OCD, Sensation in General, and Anxious Children
Join me on the show today as I consider Obsessive Compulsive and its related disorders from the DSM-5, I take a look at what Aristotle concludes about what is true of all the senses and I consider why anxiety and depression are different in children.
PTSD
Join me every Thursday at Noon on Facebook for a live discussion of psychology from a Catholic perspective. Today I take up Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Please support me on Patreon and get access to lots of great...
Two Ways of Treating Anxiety
Join me this week as I take up two ways of treating Anxiety, I look at the three chapters on the vegetative soul in the De Anima, and I answer a patrons question about the name “Color of Thought.”
Anxiety, Method, and Erik Erikson
Join me this week as I give a birds eye view of the DSM-5’s chapter on Anxiety, I consider Aristotle’s method in the De Anima, and I take up a question about accomplishing Erik Erikson’s developmental stages.
What is Psychology
Where it all began, here is the first episode of the podcast from two or three years ago.
Parental Insights in Raising Catholic Teenagers | Guest Post for CatholicTherapists.com
Parents need to only have a newborn in their house for a few weeks before they hear people say, “Just wait till they are teens!” It is axiomatic in our culture that the teenage years are full of rebellion and strife for the family. I was a high school teacher for 5...