According to Wikipedia, cyberchondria refers to the unfounded escalation of concerns about common symptomology based on review of search results and literature online. Cyberchondria is a growing concern among many healthcare practitioners as patients can now research any and all symptoms of a rare disease, illness or condition, and manifest a state of medical anxiety. [...]
Dr. Margaret Blaustein on Treating Traumatic Stress
Dr. Margaret Blaustein is the co-creator of the ARC Treatment Model, which focuses on Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency to foster resiliency in children and adolescents who have experienced complex or chronic traumatic stress.
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Schema Therapy – The Powerful Influence of Our Mental Maps
“I Know What’s Gonna Happen Next” Schema Therapy The Powerful Influence of Our Mental Maps 1. WHAT IS SCHEMA THERAPY? This article is largely based on the practice theories developed by Jeffrey E. Young, PhD in his book “Schema Therapy”. Our internal schematic is a pattern or an organizing framework which we personalize for ourselves [...]
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What is Internal Family Systems Therapy? An Interview With Dr. Richard C. Schwartz
An Introduction to Internal Family Systems Therapy To learn more about Dr. Schwartz’s model of therapy, I attended a conference where he was presenting. I had the opportunity to hear him lecture as well as interview him about the theory, practice, and thought processes that helped him to create Internal Family Systems Therapy. In [...]
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Through the Fog: Understanding Trauma
I recently had the privilege of attending the 22nd Annual International Trauma Conference, at the Seaport World Trade Center, in Boston, MA. After the conference on Saturday, I was sitting down by the Fort Point Channel, thinking about everything I had learned over the last three days. There was a heavy, moist, fog that had settled [...]
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Bear Cub Alone but Okay
The bear cub, the one with the splayed foot didn’t know how long she had been walking. But she knew she was lost. The rich sweet smells of Huckleberry and Pine were faint and far on the horizon but diffuse and so hard to locate exactly. The deep green scent of Oak, Spruce, Evergreen and [...]
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Tips for Happiness Videos with Dan Brown PhD
Several of BETA staff recently attended an intensive conference in Boston to learn the latest techniques on meditation, visualization and peak performance practices for every day life. My colleague, Wayne Kessler and I interviewed Dr. Dan Brown, the conference speaker, on topics such as the role of the psychotherapist in the spiritual and personal development [...]
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Meditation, Visualization, Peak Performance and Happiness Videos
Few therapists have such a mastery of either Eastern or Western therapeutic and personal growth practices as Dan Brown, PhD, let alone both. Boston Evening Therapy Associates (BETA) therapists recently attended an intensive conference in the technique of meditation and visualization and the attainment of peak performance in every day life. Our clinic Director, Aaron [...]
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