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This article explores the challenges faced by young adults in forming relationships and combating loneliness. It acknowledges the impact of social media on face-to-face interactions and emphasizes the need for in-person connections. The article also highlights the importance of solitude and self-soothing skills, as well as the role of social capital in developing meaningful friendships. It addresses economic barriers that young adults face in achieving financial security and empowerment. Strategies to build real-life connections and reduce isolation are provided, including the importance of third places, expanding family connections, and embracing small connections and weak ties. The article also suggests learning to grieve and let go of unhealthy friendships, using friend apps to meet new people, and volunteering as ways to reduce loneliness and increase social connections. Overall, the article emphasizes the significance of building strong and supportive relationships to combat loneliness and navigate an uncertain future. [Extracted from the article]

IN ON THE Joke Teaching clients to find play and humor in their lives should be an unofficial treatment goal. HUMOR PROVIDES A NEW PERSPECTIVE When we assume that our education, expertise, and confidence confer advantage upon us, we may miss the chance to play with narratives of who we are and what clients need from us in the therapy relationship. Research on the specific benefits of humor in therapy concludes that it increases trust, deflates shame, improves selfesteem, opens the possibility of a new perspective that can help clients get unstuck - and can be truly cathartic. The metaphor, the imagery, and the exaggeration - all generated by the client - gave us more space to play within the intensity of treatment, building our engagement and moving the treatment forward. [Extracted from the article]

THE DELUSION OF POSSIBLE SELVES Mike, the NBA hopeful, and Josie, the TikTok micro-influencer, are imagining themselves with great optimism - and notably little parental endorsement - into an uncertain future. My own necessary delusion is that I can help Josie decide that her worth can't be weighed in pounds or followers. Notably, one of the many challenging aspects of therapy with aspiring social media star Josie is her large following. If Josie could have the optimal delusion of an Imaginary Audience, she'd gradually learn to see herself through others' eyes and be confident she'd be the star as long as she needed that limelight. [Extracted from the article]

The tour includes private areas of the home that Gramps would prefer remain so, and I hear an exhausted voice in the background as I examine the impressive contents of their fridge say, "Eli, honey, remember how we agreed you'd have therapy in your bedroom?" TELEPLAY THERAPY AND COVID-19 Back before COVID-19, in what seems like another lifetime, a growing body of research considered the promising world of teletherapy and touted the social-justice implications of providing access to psychotherapy for rural, disabled, and housebound clients. Although Gramps determined it would be best not to tell Eli, the apartment is small and Eli heard just enough to flip out. It's true that Eli banged the laptop lid shut when he'd had enough; it's also true that the following week he was delighted to have therapy at the appointed hour, as always, coronavirus be damned. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses need for device free attention and sustained involvement for young kids. Topics include support them for sharing thoughts and feelings with their parents; relationship needs to offer a bridge to better connection at home with young kids; and technoference, everyday intrusions and interruptions in family life which caused by technology devices that impact on relationship in the home.

A personal narrative is presented which explores author experience of using psychotherapy to treat people belonging to the millennial generation.

The article offers information on the problems faced by teenagers and the solution to solve those problems. Topics discussed include evidence-based rationale drawing provided by developmental–relational theory (DRT); the problem faced by the adolescence showed by study of contemporary adolescence; and problem developed in the teenagers such as adult-deficit disorder and the development of problems due to impact of adult inattention.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experiences of mending a traumatized children into social development and communication.

The article discusses the emerging family paradigm in the U.S. According to the author, these days, the number of adults who prefer to stay deeply connected with parents, is increasing. Moreover, Jeffrey Arnett of Clark University, a pioneer researcher on emerging adulthood, added that since before World War II, the relationships between parents and their young adults are closer than at any time.

This article discusses ways to handle therapy with adolescent girls. According to Ron Taffel, author of the book "Breaking Through to Teens," both boys and girls craves for passion in their lives and for authentic and enduring relationships with compassionate adults. In order for professionals to forge alliances with their adolescent girl patients, they should be consistent, should be able to keep promises and should be able to admit mistakes and apologize.

Presents a case study on self harming teens and family assessment, based on the experiences of a 15-year old girl. Family background of the girl; Reason why she cut diamond-shaped marks on her abdomen; Analysis of the sessions she attended; Progress she made after each session.

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Discusses the therapeutic benefits of gardening. Reasons why people engage in gardening; Goal of a horticultural therapy program; Friends Hospital in Philadelphia's passive form of horticultural therapy. INSETS: Designing landscapes for disabled people.;Finding qualified workers with disabilities through Hort....

The author discusses the family therapy model developed by Indiana University professor Thomas Sexton. The author says that Sexton appears to be a facilitator, teacher, and counselor and doing psychotherapy through his sensitive process attention, mutual closeness desire, and underlying effect with the family. She mentions that Sexton creates a connection to various family members by comprehending to their aggression, rage, and confusion.

The author reflects on the case study conducted by professor Aureen Pinto Wagner concerning the obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in children. She suspects that the clarity of explanation and speed of results would cause the uninitiated to believe that it is a simple disorder to treat. She comments that more reluctant children may benefit from the medication of OCD and suggests that they might also be aided by other treatment approaches as well.

This article presents tips on helping adolescents engaged in self-injury. According to researchers and therapists, difficulty verbalizing emotions and needs is one of the most therapeutically relevant characteristics of self-harming adolescents. Professionals should be able to make self-harmers learn the skills of containment and verbal expression, as well as help them develop rituals to overcome the urge to hurt themselves.