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Ask Ellen: How to Develop Your Child’s Executive Function Skills
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and caregivers. Tune in to learn how you can help boost your child’s executive function skills as they transition back to school. Media List Q+A: My kids are 8 and…

The Adolescent Brain: Primed for Thrills and High On Life
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…by myelination—in other words, to prioritize speed over the ability to further modify connections. However, we myelinate our brain in phases, finalizing the brainstem before birth, but not completing the…

What If My Child Is Prescribed an SSRI?
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and those kids might as well be more likely to have an antidepressant prescribed. In fact, the suicide rate among teens increased for the first time in over 15 years…

Ellen Braaten, PhD
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…intelligence. She has a special interest, in both her writing and research, in helping students with learning and emotional challenges succeed in the fast-paced world in which we live.  …

3 Things Technology Has Taken Away From You
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Since there are only so many hours in the day, we figured that all the hours spent on the Internet must be subtracted from some other activity. Are those eight…

Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT): A Closer Look
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…friends, she answered, “I don’t have any because I just don’t fit in with those mean girls.” When asked about what kinds of plans she had after college, she replied,…

Navigating “The System”
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…from her big sister when her friends don’t seem to have to make the same sacrifices. Because Mary is in middle school, the developmental need to fit in is all-important…

Giving a 2-Year-Old a 15-Minute Time-Out
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let alone 15 minutes. Tantrums ensue, and things get knocked over. Kids get hurt in those lonely minutes by themselves behind closed doors. So, the time-out takes place in the…

What if My Child has Oppositional Defiant Disorder?
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The first time I met Jacob’s mother, she came into my office in tears. “You won’t like my son,” she said. “He is in the car in the parking lot…

9 Self-Care Tips for Teachers
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keep too many balls in the air? ” These can help you to figure out what ’s causing stress in your life, how you respond to stress, and what changes…

Failure To Launch and the Disorganized Teenager – Could a Life Coach Help?
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be developed that allows students to view their day in half-hour segments. In general, highly-productive people tend to maximize what can be accomplished in a half-hour. Through the exercise of…

Q+A: My Daughter With Anorexia Will Get Homework Assignments – What Does That Mean?
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…techniques and homework assignments that therapists use to treat eating disorders that have been found to be very effective in understanding and changing behaviors. They include: Food Journaling. The patient…

What Is Family Therapy?
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Family therapy emphasizes the idea that a child lives and grows in relationship to others, particularly in relationship to members of his or her own family. There are many different…

CBT Snapshot: Using Cognitive Behavior Therapy for PTSD
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growing body of evidence that supports its use in traumatized children. Some of the more rigorous studies have been completed in children who have been sexually abused, and CBT treatments…

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