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Dr. Kathleen Young - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Dr. Young is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 20 years of experience. She has been in private practice in Chicago, Illinois since 1992. She incorporates aspects of psychodynamic and relational therapy and dialectical behavior therapy into her approach to psychotherapy. Her career focus has been on treating trauma and its aftermath.
She is also an EMDR trained therapist and has completed the Illinois 40-hour Domestic Violence Training. She has coordinated a program dedicated to ... [More]
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- Trauma Stigma - We Are Only As Sick As Our Secrets
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] Our culture avoids seeing the link between childhood trauma and adult mental health problems. This creates stigma for the survivor, blaming the victim mentality and helps continue the cycle of abuse.
- Gender Identity Issues in Therapy
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] I do believe that it is the impact of stigma in a transphobic culture that often creates the problems that may bring transgender people to therapy. I do not accept the view that gender variance is in itself pathological. Transgender and gender variant people seek treatment for all the issues people in general do! Additional reasons for seeking therapy may include (but are not limited to) the following.
- Grounding Techniques in Trauma Therapy
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] Grounding is about learning to stay present (or for some get present in the first place) in your body in the here and now. Basically it consists of a set of skills/tools to help you manage dissociation and the overwhelming trauma-related emotions that lead to it. Processing done from a very dissociated state is not useful in trauma work. Neither is the goal to be so overwhelmed by feelings that you feel re-traumatized.
- What is Culturally Competent LGBT Therapy?
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people seek therapy for the same reasons anyone does. In addition, they are impacted by living in a homophobic and transphobic world. Understanding the issues presented within that context is where the LGBT culturally competent therapist comes in.
- Childhood Abuse - When the Past is Present
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] Childhood abuse can have long-lasting effects and impact adult functioning. Child abuse can take the form of any act of emotional, physical or sexual abuse perpetrated against a child. Child abuse can also take the form of neglect: ignoring the child's emotional and or physical needs. Child abuse can take place inside and outside of the family.
- Is Suffering Optional?
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] What part does suffering or feeling your feelings fully play in recovering from trauma? My experience is that many trauma survivors HAVE tried to think themselves happy, to forget about the past and move on. Sometimes this even works for a while, maybe until unexplained symptoms crop up or something triggers a flood of traumatic remembering.
- Online Therapy - Is it For You?
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] Online therapy (also referred to as Internet therapy, distance therapy, cyber therapy or e-therapy) is used to describe the variety of ways a professional counselor or psychotherapist can communicate with you over the Internet or telephone. It may consist of emotional support, mental health advice or the same professional services clients receive in face-to-face therapy. It could be as brief as one question, or an ongoing conversation. It may take the form of e-mail, chat, video or even Internet phone (voice-over-IP).
- The Alcoholic Family System and the Impact on the Child
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] In families where one or both parents are alcoholic, alcohol becomes an organizing influence, affecting the child's development both in terms of personality and relationships to others. In discussing common characteristics of the alcoholic family system it is important to keep in mind that tremendous variation exists. Even with similar environments and issues, one must understand the meaning of parental alcoholism for the individual.
- Childhood Wounds - Understanding Yourself in Context
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] Many psychological issues are created within the context of childhood experiences and family dynamics. We all (hopefully) get that overt types of trauma such as childhood sexual and physical abuse impact the developing child.
- May is Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Month
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) as a complex trauma disorder. Awareness of this condition is much needed. What disorder is more misunderstood and maligned than this? Many myths and misconceptions exist that further serve to stigmatize those with this diagnosis (or even those who are mistakenly given this diagnosis).
- Out of the Darkness Overnight - A Walk to Raise Awareness About Suicide
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] It is happening right here, in my hometown of Chicago! The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention is sponsoring an overnight walk June 27-28 to raise awareness about suicide. The symbolism involved in walking all night seems very powerful and moving to me. Many people I work with have struggled with thoughts of suicide: those with depression, trauma survivors, those who grew up stigmatized because they are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
- Domestic Violence - A Definition
[Relationships:Domestic-Violence] One type of trauma I see in my practice is domestic violence. I have worked especially with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) victims of intimate partner violence. This is still an under served group. The societal stigma attached to sexual orientation and gender identity continues to create even more barriers to accessing care, as if it isn't already hard enough for any victim of domestic violence to seek and receive trauma-informed help!
- The Heterosexuality Questionnaire
[Relationships:Sexuality] People with homosexual or bisexual orientations have long been stigmatized. The same is the case for those who are gender non-conforming or who feel their assigned at birth sex or gender does not match their true selves. Heterosexism is a term used to describe the belief that heterosexuality is the norm or superior, while anything else is stigmatized or just unacknowledged.
- International No Diet Day
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] International No Diet Day (INDD) is an annual celebration of body acceptance and diversity. It is observed on May 6 each year. Do you struggle with body image issues? Can you imagine even one day set aside for accepting your body, just as it is? Or better yet, loving your body as it is?
- Intimate Partner Violence - How Can Men Make a Difference?
[Relationships:Domestic-Violence] Intimate partner violence (also known as Domestic Violence) is intrinsically connected to the societal oppression of women and other marginalized groups. At it's core it is about not just violence, but violence used systematically and repeatedly in the service of having power and control over another. Intimate partner violence is everywhere, in every segment of the population.
- The Therapy Relationship - What Makes a Good Fit?
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] What do you look for in seeking a therapist? Professional qualifications and personality variables make up the good fit of the therapeutic relationship.
- 7 Things You Can Do Right Now to Start Feeling Better
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] Anxious? Depressed? Stressed? Overwhelmed by trauma memories? You will want to do things to help yourself feel better as quickly as possible, without doing anything that has negative consequences.
- United States of Tara Controversy
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] Are you familiar with this relatively new show, the United States of Tara? When I first heard about it, a comedy centering around an individual with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), I was concerned. The media misrepresentations of this disorder have long been a pet peeve of mine.
- The Impact of Psychological Trauma
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] Trauma underlies many psychological issues and presenting problems. Many people are impacted and in more ways than commonly thought.
- What is Psychological Trauma?
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] Impact can be ameliorated by existence of a support system at the time of the traumatic event. When you do not have family or friends to help you to make sense of the event, normal development is interrupted and various symptoms occur.
- Conversion Therapy - Can Or Should Sexual Orientation Be Cured?
[Reference-and-Education:Psychology] In 1997 the American Psychological Association passed a resolution reaffirming that "homosexuality is not a mental disorder" and raising ethical concerns about attempts to change sexual orientation via psychotherapy (known as reparative or conversion therapy). Unfortunately, that was not the end of this questionable practice. Results of a survey conducted in London and published this year suggest that some therapists still see anything other than heterosexuality as pathological.
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