The impacts of trauma on child development
Traumatic experiences are common in childhood and adolescence and can have significant psychological effects on the child’s emotional well-being and overall development. Outcomes can be affected positively or negatively depending on responses and interventions. Humans...
The Difference Between Anxiety Attack vs Panic Attack
What Is the Difference Between Anxiety Attack and Panic Attack? Do the terms “anxiety attack” and “panic attack” refer to the same phenomenon? From one perspective, they do: The term anxiety attack is another way of referring to a panic attack. This is particularly...
What Is a Panic Attack?
The experience of a panic attack Imagine you are sitting in a coffee shop, waiting for a friend. Suddenly, your heart starts pounding and sweat begins dripping from your forehead. You feel nauseated and experience chills. In addition, you have this terrible feeling...
Coping with COVID 19 – A Guide for Seniors
In the past few months, you may have learned a lot about Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a new infectious disease that has infected millions of people around the world and resulted in several hundred thousand deaths. You might have been feeling a lot of anxiety...
How Does Exposure Therapy Work?
What is Exposure Therapy? A highly effective psychological intervention for many disorders, particularly anxiety disorders, is called exposure therapy. Exposure therapy requires fully encountering a fear-provoking activity or situation (e.g., public speaking) that has...
What Is Agoraphobia?
Agoraphobia is a psychological disorder. The word agoraphobia is made up of two words: agora and phobia. Phobia refers to extreme fear, while agora means open space—in ancient Greece, the agora was the marketplace. So, agoraphobia literally means fear of the...
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Have you ever been called a worrier? Do you constantly fret about everything—safety, health, money, being on time for appointments, completing your household chores, etc.? If so, you may have an anxiety disorder called generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). According...
Signs & Symptoms of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Jack is a young man who finds driving dreadful because he has these terrible recurrent thoughts about accidentally hitting a car or a pedestrian and not even noticing it. So, whenever Jack drives, he checks the rear-view mirror too frequently, constantly listens for...
Covid-19 And The Psychological Costs of Quarantine and Isolation
Many states in the US have taken drastic measures to contain the new viral infection, COVID-19, by banning or restricting all types of social gatherings. Perhaps the most frequent advice given by health officials, aside from washing hands regularly and maintaining...Contact us
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