What Are the Family Dynamics That Can Be Traumatic to Children?
One of the challenges to working with children in a clinical setting is that they are rarely strong enough to overcome the environmental press created by the family dynamics they are being raised within. In society today their is a movement away from accountability in general, and many times when a therapist wants to address the environment that children are being raised within, the parents scream “FOUL BALL” and claim that they are being blamed for the bad behavior of their children. This is particularly true in families that present with developmental trauma which can be defined as anything that interferes or interrupts the normal psychological, emotional, or social development of a child. To blame or finger point is a useless activity, what is necessary it to help these families with highly challenging children to understand how to best maximize the opportunity for the child to succeed and prosper.
Dr. Jeffery Young has completed a tremendous amount of work and research discovering these environmental patterns and the impact each has on individuals. Jeff is the founder of Schema Therapy which is a tremendous therapeutic approach to dealing with personality distortions that develops with in family dynamics.
According to Dr. Young there are five general environmental factors that contribute to the traumatic experience. As each is explored in brief it will become increasingly clear how these particular family environments may create interference normal social-emotional development. If you are a therapist, social worker or counselor it would be recommended by this writer that you obtain and read Dr. Young’s material designed for professional helpers. Schema Therapy: A Practitioner’s Guide where he develops strategies to support the helper create healing moments for those that struggle to recover from these distressing family dynamics.
Put the Power of Viral Marketing to Work For You
When the term viral marketing is used, people often think spam or malicious computer killing software sent through email. the term of course refers to the idea of speeding a message, joke, a video or other piece of information that excites us momentarily and is then passed on to others for their own show, amusement or amazement.
Viral marketing is any method that is used to encourage someone to pass on a marketing message to someone else. This creates the domino effect of one person passing it on to another and another and so on. The potential for exponential growth is enormous because if you really are impacted by a new game, video or some piece of useful software, you will with a little prompting pass it on to others as with pleasure.
So how does it work? Viral marketing appeals to several emotional factors in us; the most obvious of which is curiosity. Once we get the “gift” opened, if we like it and it the viral message leaves us in a heightened state. If it’s funny, we laugh a little louder; if it’s scary we feel it more acutely.
Staying In Place – Intergenerational Communities On The Rise
Looking for something beyond traditional retirement housing? How about a place where you can live out your values and be near friends, while staying active and connected with your community and the world? A neighborhood where you can enjoy independent living without being uprooted if the need for health care arises?
If you relate to these questions, you are not alone. Retirees today are more active, educated, and will live longer than any generation before. They have needs that many elder living communities do not usually offer. Retirees want to remain in their neighborhoods, contribute to society, and enjoy fruitful living and learning throughout their lifetime.
The Administration on Aging, an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, gives insight on what today’s retirees seek. Contrary to belief that retirees want to move to warmer climates, many want to stay close to friends and family. But with the decrease of large family structures, in which older parents lived with or near their children, this approach is no longer viable for everyone. Today there is a growing interest for retirees to stay close to home and even remain living in their own home and neighborhood. Not many know about an alternative option that embraces the best of independent and elder living.
