Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) has some great metaphors to represent concepts like cognitive defusion and acceptance vs. resistance.
Affect regulation is the ability of an individual to modulate their emotional state to adaptively meet the demands of their environment.
The framework for diagnosing personality disorders is in need of an overhaul. Which of the top 10 are proposed for removal
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Cognitive distortions (or ‘unhelpful thinking styles’) are ways that our thoughts become biased. Different cognitive biases are associated with different mental health problems. Accordingly, helping clients think in a more balanced way is a core component of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). This information handout describes 20 of the most clinically-relevant cognitive biases: all or nothing thinking, arbitrary inference, catastrophizing, disqualifying the positive, emotional reasoning, externalizing, fortune telling, hindsight bias, jumping to conclusions, labeling, magnification and minimization, mental filter, mind reading, overgeneralization, permissive thinking, personalizing, self-blame, “should” statements, social comparison, and thought-action fusion.
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BRIEF SUMMARY Trauma is an emotional response to a terrible event like an accident, rape or natural disaster. Immediately after the event, shock and denial are typical. Longer term reactions […]
This article was originally published on The Gottman Relationship Blog. Have you ever wondered why we get angry? According to psychologist Daniel Goleman, “emotions are, in essence, impulses to act…
Delusional disorder symptoms - 1. Persistent delusions 2. Non-bizarre delusions 3. Limited impact on functioning 4. Lack of hallucinations 5. Insight variability
The mental status exam (MSE) is a basic assessment framework used in psychiatry for ongoing evaluation of a patient with mental illness.
Tables, pictures, and graphs that helps with learning about neurotransmitters and hormones that describes their role, functions, also related to disorders.
A recent study, published in the journal Psychological Science , has discovered a link between the way in which couples' recover from confli...
Ever wonder how rich people think? Why is frugality by choice a popular option among the upper middle class? It admirable but it doesn’t make sense does it? The rich are frugal for what purpose?
This is a copy of the material from my Diagnosis page, placed here for ease of access to […]
What is the difference between Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorder? Schizophrenia is a long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in..
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Carl Jung introduced the concept of Introverts and Extroverts. The concept was also studied by other psychologists like Hans Eysenck and Raymond Cattell. Introverts tend to be reserved and are inte…
The bigger our window of tolerance, the most stress and challenge we're able to handle. Learn more about it here.
How to understand cortisol levels—and what that means for your health.
Today on the Vibe Shifting Show podcast: What is the emotional scale and how can we use it to keep ourselves aligned with our highest good?
A research-based tool to help you identify your body sensations, a critical component of emotion identification and processing.
Overview Generally speaking, we can split psychiatric diagnoses in the following way: Axis I: major psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, autism, substance abuse disorde…
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A Large Collection of ENNEAGRAMS 2 See also: A Large Collection of ENNEAGRAMS (part 1) Table of Contents: • Gnostic Circle ENNEAGRAM • Nine Categories of Temperament ENNEAGRAM table • Marko Rodin …
Tables, pictures, and graphs that helps with learning about neurotransmitters and hormones that describes their role, functions, also related to disorders.
