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Developing a Pre-Performance Routine (PPR) Can Help You Perform at a Higher Level

What is a Pre-Performance Routine? PPR Tips, Examples, and AdviceAn often under-utilized, yet effective, strategy to consistently perform at a high level is the use of a standardized, pre-performance...

What It Means to Be a Father: A Dad’s Contribution to Parenting

What It Means to Be a FatherFathers play a meaningful role in children’s lives. They provide a distinctive blend of firm yet loving touch to their approach to parenting. However,...

What You Actually Need to Know About the Link Between Technology and Your Child’s...

Technology, from smartphones to game systems and security monitors to smart appliances, is a part of your child’s everyday life. That same technology that organizes, entertains, and protects, often has unintended consequences...

Are Suicide Prevention Programs Effective?

You’ll likely see a number of notices about campaigns for suicide awareness in the upcoming weeks with September 10th being World Suicide Prevention Day and September as the National Suicide Prevention Month.

How to Talk to Your Child About Suicide: The Tough Conversation You Need to...

Many parents are aware of the importance of having conversations with their kids about topics like sex, alcohol, and drugs or safe driving. Most of us find our way through these sometimes...

Helping Your Child Cope with a Friend’s Suicide

More and more we are hearing about suicide among teens and young adults. We hear about the rising suicide rates in the news, how suicide is the second leading cause of death for...
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20 Years Behind Bars: Incarceration, Re-Entry, and Mental Health

What is prison really like? In this episode, we are talking about incarceration - mental health implications and issues related to re-entry into society.Craig Pohlman, Ph.D., Jennifer...

A Therapist Who Cares is a Therapist Who Grieves

Many times when I write, the urge to do so strikes in the wee hours of the morning. Usually sometime between 3AM and 5AM when the sky is still midnight black and...

Why Some People Refuse to Evacuate

Hurricane Dorian has been moving its way, at a glacial speed, throughout the Bahamas and is now making its way towards the United States. While it’s hard to plan for a potential hurricane...

Understanding the Bystander Effect: How You Can Intervene and Help a Potential Victim

Trying to help yourself and realizing you can do nothing is one type of pain. Realizing tens, hundreds or even thousands of other people could have stopped the pain is devastating.