Category Archives: Family
Parental Alienation: What Therapists Need to Know
Parental alienation is a form of child abuse—and recognizing, diagnosing, and treating it can be tricky. Here's how therapists can handle these challenging cases.
Prepping Kids So They’re Ready To Thrive as Adults
What do students need from their parents? Freud had a surprisingly solid definition many years ago. With tough economic times likely to lie ahead, it's worth paying attention to what Freud said.
Prevention of Parental Alienation: How You Can Help
A family court judge has suggested a three-pronged parental alienation prevention strategy. Learn what you can do to help.
On Whom Can I Depend? How Relationships Support Well-Being
"If I should get sick, who would take care of me?" It's a good question—and one that could lead to positive life changes.
Oy, The Holidays: Anticipating An Emotional Rollercoaster?
Use this guide to managing negative feelings if you are expecting that emotional challenges lie ahead.
Mending a Broken Family; Strengthening a Healthy Family
Families can be fountains of strength. At the same time, all families are fragile. Internal factors like a parent with mental health issues, and also outside factors like job loss or economic stresses, can overwhelm a couple's abilities to cope in good humor. One temporarily fractured couple has written profound advice relevant to all parents.
Mom Humiliates Daughter via Facebook: Discipline or Abuse?
Have you ever seen what emotional abuse looks like? Here's a live example from a story that broke just this past week. What would you do if you saw someone doing this to a teenager?
Mom Loved You Best! The Rise and Fall of Sibling Rivalry
When and why did you experience sibling rivalry? With hindsight, what do you know now that you didn't understand then that makes the rivalry vanish?
More Info for Adult Children of Borderline Mothers
These comments from readers of my earlier postings on borderline personality disorder have useful suggestions for understanding and coping with family members who rage.
Mother’s Day Dread
I dread Mothers Day because I deeply miss my Mom. That's her with me in this picture. If your mom has a borderline personality disorder, however, there's other reasons why Mothers' Day may be no fun.