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NO, NO, NO – Learning NO!
Despite its short size the word NO is one of the most difficult words in the English language to understand. Ask any school teacher and they would swear that most of their students had never heard the...
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Why your child won’t behave
The number one complaint that brings parents and children to most child mental health clinics is the complaint “my kid won’t behave, won’t mind, won’t do what I tell him to, or some variation of this...
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Improving Relationships – Changing Others Part Two – Encouragement
Encouragement One way to improve relationships is to encourage others to do the things we want then to do. This is true whether the relationship we are talking about is a romantic one or the parent...
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Why ignoring them doesn’t work- or does it?
8 rules for extinguishing bad behavior – Part 4 in our changing others series. Parenting coaches tell parents to ignore bad behavior. They call this process “extinguishing.” They warn that paying too...
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Grandma is the drug connect
Grandmas along with grandpas, mothers and dads are becoming the major suppliers of illicit drugs for today’s teens. Grandma may not know it yet, but the drugs she supplied could put her grandkids in...
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How safe if your young child from drugs?
Are you keeping your child away from drugs? We would like to think that we can keep our children safe. We expect drug use to be something teens or young adults might do. Not young children. The truth...
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Can you force a teenager to go for therapy?
How do you get a teen to go for help? Friendship The question of getting a teen, or any other person for that matter, to go for mentally health treatment is always problematic. With teens you sort-of...
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Who broke you? Socialization and difficult children
As a baby did someone have to “break you?” English: Feral cat showing fear, and lack of socialization to humans (Photo credit: Wikipedia) A ran across a passage in an older self-improvement book in...
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Should your daughter’s therapist be talking to you?
When should a child’s therapist include you in the conversation? Sometimes the therapist should be talking to the parent and sometimes not. Which is which and what factors are in play? The client’s...
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Can’t find your inner child
By David Joel Miller Have you misplaced your inner child? The idea of having an inner child and inner child work comes and goes. Somehow this idea strikes a responsive chord in people even though there...
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When should you force a child to go to therapy?
By David Joel Miller Parents seem to be concerned about when to force a child to go to therapy. Making children go for counseling shows up in search terms to counselorssoapbox.com from time to time....
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When you should not make a child go for therapy
By David Joel Miller There are times when no matter how firmly you believe that there is something the matter with your child you are making a mistake forcing them to go for therapy. Most of these...
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What is secondary trauma?
By David Joel Miller Can you be traumatized by something that did not happen to you? Secondary trauma is the traumatic result of watching someone else be injured or their life threatened. It is just...
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Why are so many children being diagnosed Bipolar?
Early onset Bipolar Disorder By David Joel Miller Bipolar diagnoses in children have increased 40 fold in the ten year period from 2000 to 2010. What is behind the increasing number of children and...
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Half of autism Diagnosis may be wrong
Interesting Ted Talk about the possibility that a lot of children’s learning disabilities may be misdiagnosed.
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Are the mental health problems in children different?
By David Joel Miller A reader asked “You keep mentioning children in your posts, how are their problems like or different from adult mental illness? There are some differences between the issues...
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How is youth mental health treatment different from adults?
By David Joel Miller What are the differences between youth and adult mental health treatment? There are differences in the way a counselor might work with a child and how they might work with an...
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How are children’s substance abuse problems different from adult addiction?
By David Joel Miller There are some differences between the substance abuse issues in children from those in adults, but they may be less than we used to think. There are a lot of people who continue...
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18 Ways you are a really bad parent
By David Joel Miller 18 ways to be a really bad parent Here are 18 really bad ways to treat children. Do them enough and you can destroy a child’s life. Some parents do these things out of ignorance,...
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What is Postpartum or Peripartum Depression?
By David Joel Miller Is this postpartum depression or just the baby blues? The idea that a woman can get sad, blue, even depressed as a result of giving birth has been around for a long time....
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