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Teen Cutting

Beautiful Voyager

A meta-analytic study from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry analyzed the prevalence and characteristics of self-harm in adolescents across 41 countries. The best reaction is to stay calm and communicate again next time. Express concern and communicate that you want to help them.

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Simple Tips: Anger Management for Autistic Children

Social Work Haven

Parents, social workers and caregivers can help children on the autism spectrum manage their anger in healthy ways, using simple tips such as creating calm times, identifying triggers, teaching communication skills, modelling expected behaviour and using distraction techniques. What is an Autism Spectrum Disorder?

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ian mcgilchrist - a review of a talk

Clinical Philosophy

Having thereby deconstructed his own profession he perhaps rather had to move on - as it happened to medicine, psychiatry and neuroscience. As therapists we’re naturally sometimes aware of when we or our patients can’t see the woods for the trees, perseverate on details, refuse to dwell in uncertainty, and so on.