Working parents, are you relying on your elder child to be the third parent?
Top tips from UAE psychologists on how you can avoid parentification of your elder child
A time for everything: Why routines are important in your child’s life
Routines during childhood help build resilience, discipline and focus say UAE experts.
Less yelling, less praise: Is that a better way to parent? Experts answer
Published in Gulf News to read the exact article, please visit: https://gulfnews.com/parenting/mums-dads/less-yelling-less-praise-is-that-a-better-way-to-parent-experts-answer-1.1663161922257
Book Review: When he’s married to Mom by Kenneth H. Adams, Ph.D.
Dr. Adams’ book is easy to read and is written mainly for men who think they might have some unresolved issues with their mothers. But women who are involved with MEMs (a mother-enmeshed man) can also benefit from this book. The structure of the book is as follows: Dr. Adams tells seven different stories of men who have been negatively...
How can you tell if therapy is really working?
It’s not always obvious whether therapy is actually improving your life. The thing about therapy is, it doesn’t work the way a medication might, where you have symptoms, you take a drug targeting those symptoms, and hopefully after some time, those symptoms go away. Therapy is more about taking the time to look for and treat the source of the wound. It can be...
Daughters of unloving mothers: what it means to heal
It sometimes takes a long time before realising how toxic the family one grew up in was. It also takes a lifetime to acknowledge that one grew up in an abusive environment where love and care were missing. It’s more common to try to normalize the abuse because it can be extremely painful to see reality as it is: the...
The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Empirical evidence supports the efficacy of psychodynamic therapy. Effect sizes for psychodynamic therapy are as large as those reported for other therapies that have been actively promoted as “empirically supported” and “evidence based.” In addition, patients who receive psychodynamic therapy maintain therapeutic gains and appear to continue to improve after treatment ends. Finally, nonpsychodynamic therapies may be effective in part...
What is psychotherapy? What happens in a Therapy Session?
There are many reasons why some people find it difficult to seek therapy: they might have been told that it’s shameful to go to therapy, that it’s a sign of weakness or worse that therapy is only for those who suffer from mental illness. But when you break a bone, you naturally visit a doctor who will cast it so...