How Do You Perceive Stress? – Three Perspectives on Stress The Role of Stressful Life Events examines the relationship of life events, the action of coping with life events, and the related effects that result from coping with these life events. Three ways to study a person’s stress response to stimulation from a perceived environment...
What can a counselor do for me? – Miami Counselor
Why Should I Go to a Counselor? What Can a Counselor Do For Me? According to a 2004 article in Psychology Today, 27% of adults received mental health treatment from 2002 to 2004. Eighty percent of those who received treatment found it effective. Fifty-four percent were very satisfied with the result. Why should I go...
Want to teach your children to be less impulsive? – Family Therapist View
If children can learn to delay gratification, they will grow up with stronger willpower and stronger self-control. According to this Miami Family Therapist and child psychologist, willpower and self-control contribute greatly to a person’s ability to achieve long term goals in life. The core of the research, posted on PLOS Biology, states most people have...
How to beat being late
Constantly running late is not an excusable behavior. Constantly running late is your choice for which you alone are responsible. So what can you do? First, accept your personal responsibility for your problem. Next, break the problem down into specific behaviors such as sleeping too late, finishing one more thing, underestimating travel time, misplacing essential...
Column: 10 things wives need from husbands
Several years ago Colleen Sonderman, wife of No Regrets conference founder Steve Sonderman, gave a presentation on the top 10 things wives need from their husbands. These are not in priority order. 1. Listen to her with eye contact and engagement. Communicate in a safe place and remember, you don’t have to fix her problems....
Managing Work and Home Stress
It used to be that once you left the office you were free until the next morning. But with smartphones and email it has become very hard to separate work from home life.