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Supporting Loved Ones with Substance Use or Mental Health Disorders During the Holidays

Gateway Foundation

The holiday season can be a time of joy, togetherness, and celebration, but for those struggling with substance use or mental health disorders, it can also be a difficult and isolating time. If you have a loved one who is facing these struggles, its important to offer support with empathy, understanding, and care.

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Empathy: You can acquire it

Gary Direnfeld

With emotional empathy we can feel what another is feeling. With cognitive empathy we don’t really connect on a feeling level with the experience of other. Where a person may be lacking emotional empathy, then cognitive empathy can be learned. Broadly speaking we can differentiate two types: cognitive and emotional.

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Mental Health Awareness Month 2024

My Brains Not Broken

One of my favorite months of the year is upon us – it’s Mental Health Awareness Month! Held every May in the United States, Mental Health Awareness Month is a month of raising awareness and sharing resources about mental health.

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Consider Yourself and Empath?

Gary Direnfeld

Check out all my services and then call me if you need help with a personal issue, mental health concern, child behavior or relationship, divorce or separation issue or even help growing your practice. If not, you are missing many more posts! I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker.

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When Your Kid Comes Home Cranky

Gary Direnfeld

Next comes the empathy, again no solution or critical feedback. Just empathy. Just empathy. Check out all my services and then call me if you need help with a personal issue, mental health concern, child behavior or relationship, divorce or separation issue or even help growing your practice. Allow a pause.

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Autism Social Skills Training: Strategies for Developing Empathy

Relias

Through SST, clients are exposed to scenarios designed to help them better understand and act on: Displays of empathy. Better manage their own mental health. The following four practices are evidence-based ways of teaching social skills such as empathy, conversation techniques, and more. Behavioral skills training.

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If You Don’t Want Your Kids to Grow up and Be a Narcissist

Gary Direnfeld

As we teach kids about others who have needs unable to be met themselves, we teach about empathy. Extend yourself modeling altruistic behavior built on empathy. He consults to mental health professionals as well as to mediators and collaborative law professionals about good practice as well as building their practice.

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