This week is National Play Therapy Week
This year, 2022, National Play Therapy Week falls on February 6th through February 12th. In this post you can find links to YouTube videos, printable coloring sheets and websites with more information.
Why Video Games are More Valuable than Vice
Do you wonder if your child plays too much-and even relies on playing daily? How about- who's my child playing with online….where are they from….how old are they…? As a psychotherapist who consults with families during treatment, I often find there is a family discussion around….are they actually asleep or up gaming? Also, parents may feel concerned watching their children play and think...Why do they get so mad when they play?
“Be Together” for the Holidays!
A great idea for “being together” during the holidays! The CSI Dorchester community mental health clinic may be closed for in-person services, CSI Director of Clinical Services, Dr. Mary Ledoux, decorated the clinic holiday tree with photographs of the staff “as a way of being together”.
Coping with COVID during the Holidays
As the Pandemic Changes What the Holidays Look Like, Mental Health Experts Share Ways to Cope: NIMH Director Dr. Joshua Gordon, along with other mental health experts, discuss how to keep yourself mentally healthy, especially as the holidays approach in a Washington Post online video.
What Is Neurofeedback?
Neurofeedback, also called EEG Biofeedback, is where the brain learns to function more efficiently. It focuses on helping a person train themselves to directly affect their brain function. It’s scientifically-proven technique practiced by specially-trained psychotherapists here at CSI.
Difficult Child Behavior
Urban kids in a digital era are exposed to a constant barrage of stimulation through broadcast or social media. Everything is now available IMMEDIATELY. Have a question? Google it. Need a social group, start creeping on Facebook. While there are many positive uses for these technological advances, there are just as many new ways to interfere with a child’s normal cognitive, emotional, and social development.
Ghosts in the Nursery
Early childhood memories of trauma, fear and pain can live on in a child’s mind throughout their life. Anna Freud coined this term when she provided therapy to children orphaned by the Blitzkrieg bombings of London by the Germans in WW II. Children lost their parents and experienced tremendous trauma through this period of very high danger and stress. She noticed that children turn their fears and pain into symbolic ghosts revealed in their play.