Practice These 5 Communication Levels to Boost the Intimacy in Your Marriage
We know communication is vital to any relationship. Communication is the heart of the human connection. It can be verbal, or it can be nonverbal. Either way, rest assured, communication exists whether you are saying anything or not. It is the pathway by which we get to know one another better. Our likes and dislikes, joys […]
7 Ways to Start Making Kindness the Norm in Your Daily Life
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Tips for teenage online reputation management
Today’s teens have grown up connected to the Internet, and they practically live on social media. This makes them experts on how to behave online, right? Wrong. While young people might understand how to use the latest apps and online games, they don’t realize that what they do and say on the Internet can negatively impact […]
Building Effective Youth-Adult Partnerships
Many adults still hold negative stereotypes about the perceptions and capabilities of teenagers. As these stories of activist youth have shown, teenagers and young adults have acute perception and immense capabilities. How, then, can adults tap into youth’s energy, passion, and commitment? How do youth become involved in issues and actions like those described here? […]
Automatic Thoughts–Are you plagued by negative thinking?
Are you plagued by negative thinking? This week on WellCast, we’re talking about automatic thoughts—those destructive worries that creep into your mind and escalate without reason, like “I’m not going to graduate,” or “I’m going to get evicted.” These thoughts are actually pretty harmful to your health, but never fear! We’ve got an exercise […]
How to Raise Boys Who Are in Touch With Their Feelings
After college, psychologist Michael Reichert worked as a counselor at family court, helping make recommendations for the many teenage boys caught up in delinquent acts like stealing, fighting, and running away from home. When reading through police and school reports, he would often be struck by how many of these offenders had had extremely troubled, […]
Challenges and Opportunities Facing American Muslim Youth
By Sameera Ahmed and Maha Ezzeddine American Muslim youth struggle with a flux of developmental, social, cultural, and religious factors that can propel them toward negative attitudes and behavior that impede their development. This paper explores the challenges identified by American Muslim youth, namely the lack of support experienced, issues of identity ad acculturation, difficulties […]
Dr. Gottman’s 3 Skills (and 1 Rule!) for Intimate Conversation
The couples who reach out to us in a state of distress almost always have one thing in common: they want to know that everything is okay. They want to know that they’re not alone, and they want to make things right. Unfortunately, having been raised on a steady diet of fairytale logic and pop songs, few […]
15 Coping Skills to Learn and Use Each Day
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Building Adult Capabilities to Improve Child Outcomes: A Theory of Change
This 5-minute video depicts a theory of change from the Frontiers of Innovation community for achieving breakthrough outcomes for vulnerable children and families. It describes the need to focus on building the capabilities of caregivers and strengthening the communities that together form the environment of relationships essential to children’s lifelong learning, health, and behavior. Click […]
Open the Doors of Healing: Healthy Healing After an Abusive Relationship
Whether it is coercion, control, physical violence or verbal abuse, we can all comprehend the plight of the survivor and their need for advice; their want of change or to flee. Once removed from the battle, what we are left with is a soul who has been at war in their own home, someone who […]
How to Feel Your Feelings: A Thing that Sounds Obvious But Totally Isn’t
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