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Archive for November, 2014

WHY ARE WE AFRAID OF DISAPPOINTING OTHERS?

Posted by admin 9:32 pm, 17 November 2014

THE FEAR OF DISAPPOINTING OTHERS TENDS TO STEM FROM OUR LOW SELF ESTEEM. WE TRY AND PLEASE OTHERS SO THAT WE CAN GET THEIR APPROVAL AND LOVE. LOW SELF ESTEEM HAS AN IMPACT ON VARIOUS PSYCHOLOGICAL ISSUES. LOW SELF ESTEEM  DERIVES FROM OUR CHILDHOOD AND THE MESSAGES THAT WE WERE GIVEN AS A CHILD FROM...

Resolving Behavioural Difficulties in Children using Collaboration

Posted by admin 12:12 am, 15 November 2014

Recently I went to a professional development workshop with Dr Ross Greene, who is a guru from the USA who specialises in working with kids with behavioural problems. He has worked with kids with ADHD, Oppositional Defiance Disorder, Conduct Disorder and other emotional difficulties. He has...

It’s time we all understood what our schemas are!

Posted by admin 11:39 pm, 10 November 2014

Based on our earliest experiences with our primary caregivers, we tend to form fixed  beliefs and expectations about how likable and deserving we are, how  safe or dangerous the world is, and also how we expect others to treat us.  American psychologist Jeffrey Young is the founder of schema therapy...