Kids and Porn: The Discussion

This ain't your daddy's "Playboy." cartoon train going off a cliffAbout five years ago, limitless quantities of free, shocking, explicit videos became widely available to savvy Internet users with high-speed connections. Alas, some of the planet's most talented computer wizards are youngsters. Passing around outrageous pornographic video clips is now a popular social activity.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy - A Viewpoint

Background: Since the late 60s I've followed a progression of fashionable therapies and studied others back to the turn of the previous Century. I've seen little genuinely new. Mostly just repackaging under new authorship. Long before the term "CBT" became popularised psychologists were making full use of it but they simply talked of an "eclectic cognitive restructuring approach" or "behaviour modification techniques." Then there's the question of the effectiveness of one therapy compared to another. There seems to be no dearth of impressive looking research proving that each therapy is superior to each other! And note well: CBT is not really a single therapy or technique.

Confrontation: the dark mirror

When somebody tells you they've had a confrontation, do you think about a tense, angry argument or possibly even a brawl? Most people do. Even my trusty American Heritage Dictionary tells me that "confront" means "to come face to face with, especially with defiance or hostility." In radical contrast, my old counseling textbooks refer to confrontation as "an act of grace" or "a true act of caring." This is one of those annoying times when a specialized, professional use of a word is nearly opposite to the way people normally use it. Still, the concept of "appropriate" or "loving" confrontation is critical to what counselors, and priest/esses, do.

Are you Anti-Psychiatry?

Beginning in the 1960s, a movement called anti-psychiatry claimed that psychiatric patients are not ill but are individuals that are misfits in society, and therefore put into asylums. Adherents of this movement often refer to the myth of mental illness, after Dr. Thomas Szasz' controversial book, The Myth of Mental Illness.

8 Tips to Stop Holding a Grudge

We all have experienced hurt and pain in our lives. Sometimes we are exposed to experiences so painful that they leave marks that are difficult to heal-especially if we feel somone has wronged us or harmed us.

1. Acknowledge the problem

Figure out what it is that’s causing you to hold a grudge. You have to know what the problem is in order to solve it. When you allow yourself to see the real issue you can then make a choice to move forward from there.

The New Survivors

For over 11 million Americans, cancer is no longer a definite death sentence. The dreaded disease has instead become a crucible, often remaking personality and endowing survivors with qualities not even they knew they had.

Jasan Zimmerman was 6 months old when he was diagnosed with neuroblastoma of the left neck in 1976. First the cancer was surgically removed, then he was treated with radiation. Perhaps it was exposure to all that radiation that caused the thyroid cancer when he was 15. More surgery, more radiation. But this time, old enough to grasp the situation, he was terrified. "I didn't want to die," recalls Zimmerman, who grit his teeth through the grueling treatment. Almost as difficult was the aftermath:

The Truth About Beauty

It would be so nice if inner Beauty triumphed over outer appearance. But men are designed to care about packaging. It's time to accept the not-so-pretty facts about looks.

There are certain practical realities of existence that most of us accept. If you want to catch a bear, you don't load the trap with a copy of Catch-22 not unless you rub it with a considerable quantity of raw hamburger. If you want to snag a fish, you can't just slap the water with your hand and yell, "Jump on my hook, already!" Yet, if you're a woman who wants to land a man, there's this notion that you should be able to go around looking like Ernest Borgnine: If you're "beautiful on the inside," that's all that should count. Right. And I should have a flying car and a mansion in Bel Air with servants and a moat.

Personality [The Hidden Side of Happiness]

Pleasure only gets you so far. A rich, rewarding life often requires a messy battle with adversity.

Hurricanes, house fires, cancer, white-water rafting accidents, plane crashes, vicious attacks in dark alleyways. Nobody asks for any of it. But to their surprise, many people find that enduring such a harrowing ordeal ultimately changes them for the better. Their refrain might go something like this: "I wish it hadn't happened, but I'm a better person for it."

Depression, Recovering from Trauma

Not everyone who endures a traumatic experience is scarred. But recovering requires that painful emotions be thoroughly processed.

Not everyone who endures a traumatic experience is scarred by it; the human psyche has a tremendous capacity for recovery and even growth. Recovering from a traumatic experience requires that the painful emotions be thoroughly processed. Trauma feelings can not be repressed or forgotten. If they are not dealt with directly, the distressing feelings and troubling events replay over and over in the course of a lifetime, creating a condition known as post-traumatic stress disorder.

Kids Educational Christmas Activities - Useful Tips to Keep December Academic

The month of December in theory is three weeks of prime teaching time, a solid hunk of time that is perfect for a self contained unit. The students however are extra busy at home and totally focused on the upcoming holiday and vacation. One trick teachers might try to master is how to use Christmas themes for holiday assignments without sacrificing their curriculum.

Tips Sederhana Merayakan Natal

Natal merupakan sebuah perayaan yang paling membangkitkan semangat bagi umat Kristiani, saat yang penuh kegembiraan dan cinta untuk saling berbagi dengan seluruh keluarga. Kali ini kami memberikan tips sederhana untuk membuat perayaan Natal Anda istimewa.

Hiasan Natal

- Saat menghiasi pohon Natal, berikan hiasan lampu dari atas hingga ke bawah serta tambahkan helaian seperlunya. Yakinkan Anda telah mencoba lampu tersebut sebelum meletakkanya di atas pohon.