Latest posts, videos, & podcasts
How quaran-teens are coping with losses and disappointments
Denver Newsroom, May 3, 2020 / 04:58 pm MT (CNA).- Nikki Shasserre normally gets one, maybe two alerts per week from Bark, a parental monitoring app she uses to track texts and social media on her teenager’s cell phone. Bark sends Shasserre and her husband snippets of...
Raymond and Nicole Tittman: In the World but not of the World
Join me and my friends Raymond and Nicole Tittman as we talk about how to teenagers can live in the world but not be of the world. Daniel Johnson · Raymond and Nicole Tittman: In the World but not of the World
What is a Therapist?
Those working the field of psychology are generically called either a therapist or counselor. Each of these titles present interesting histories. Therapist is from a Greek word meaning minister to or to heal. Thus the title physical therapist makes a great deal of...
What the Letterman can Teach Us About Spiritual Growth
Where Soto Street and Whittier Blvd meet in the City of the Angeles sits a collection of buildings which has housed the young men enrolled at Salesian High School since 1958. The year after the school was founded saw the institution of the schools Letterman Society....
The Difference Between Spiritual Direction and Therapy
It is a rare week that one of my coreligionists doesn’t ask some version of the question, “I go to spiritual direction, why would I need a therapist?” While I do not presume to be able to perfectly explain the difference I do hope to offer some useful thoughts along...
The Role of Mentors in a Teens Life
It is no revelation to parents that adolescents – teenagers – require different parenting skills than younger children do. This is never more apparent than when the adolescent, raised in a family with a clearly articulated morality rejects this in favor of the...
The Changing Time of Adolescence | Guest Post for CatholicTherapists.com
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...