Those working towards recovery from victimization by a personality disorder have a clear triage of needs.
The dynamic between toxic leaders and their followers is examined.
Not every location or person has access to or can afford a professionally prepared custody evaluation. Here is how you might do one for yourself.
Learn why you might want to consider experienced professional help for your couple issues.
Learn what Relational Aikido is, the benefits it can bring to a relationship, and how you can begin implementing it in your own life.
Ignorance of the usual developing dynamics of separation and divorce can harm kids; learning a few things can make your divorce easier fro them.
This is a sample from an upcoming book by the same name.
The is article will help you avoid victimization and become a skilled relationship warrior when confronted with personality-disordered individuals.
The literature is sparse on effective, positive engagement approaches to help ongoing victims in dealing with personality disorders. Here are some helpful ways to handle such relationships.
An innovative training to help students to be prepared and neutralize relational and emotional bully attacks with non-violent and effective techniques.
The problem of NPD ordained and lack of denominational corrective action.
It's not just 'cults' that qualify for being spiritually abusive; mainline churches can suffer spiritual abuse at the hands of a rightly ordained pastor.
Though not all narcissists are child sex predators, all child sex abusers are personality disordered in narcissistic ways.
Congregational pastoral traumas can be varied in their nature and intensity. From the untimely death of a pastor to a pastor who has committed an adult sexual sin, or a pastor guilty of child abuse to the mentally or behaviorally ill pastor, all...
A clinical counselor and parent weighs in on spanking.
The emotional abuse that judges do not see, perpetrated by Personality Disordered parents.
Understanding Cluster B Personality Disorders
How to guide your child away from difficult personality traits.
Understanding the fundamental issue for children of a personality disordered parent.
Help for judges to figure out the problem parent.
The basic facts about clinical anxiety disorders.
The Basics about Clinical Depression
A protocol to help individuals and courts gain effective co-parenting between divorced people.
Not sure what is going on with Mom or Dad? Use this article to discover some possibilities to give you some direction.
Understanding the spectrum from difficult people to Personality Disorders
Beat your narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) by kicking the parasite out of your head.
If you choose to do battle, be sure to be armored and have good quality relational weapons.
How to avoid taking the bait and getting hooked by an NPD predator.
Don't freeze up. Use your head and emotions to improve your life after you are rid of your narcissistic ex.
The secret means that narcissistic predators use to exploit others.
What do you do when your child begins to act like their personality disordered parent?
How to respond to an ordained person with NPD.
The problem of mentally ill pastors.
Do judges recognize a narcissist? Hidden and unaddressed parental narcissistic personality disorder in custody courts hurts children and dupes judges.
Learning about boundaries and disciplining yourself to use them with a narcissist is essential in managing them.
Being aware of how narcissistic injury can create rage- and revenge-seeking in the individual with Narcissistic Personality Disorder can be helpful for avoiding victimization.
Children with a parent who has narcissistic personality disorder suffer greatly and in silence under the abuse that comes from this disorder.
Existential depression might be best described as a kind of depression that is not necessarily associated with the various kinds of clinical depressions typical of mental health disorders.
Just as there is a vast difference between ‘punishment’ and ‘discipline’, so also between ‘punitive’ and ‘correction’. Likewise, some parents worry so much about becoming punitive, they become over permissive and neglect discipline. Learning this, and the dangers and outcome of punitive or...
While we would like to keep them little and innocent as long as we can, it is important for single mothers of sons to realize that by the time their son is about age ten, he is on the cusp of sexual awakening as a young man. Boys need to learn sexual values, a single moms may be all the boy has to...
There are countless mistakes people make in divorce, from bungling the right financial decisions and going to court over custody battles that harm the children, to not knowing how to achieve an emotional divorce. But one of the largest mistakes they make is not waiting enough time before beginning...
From initially leaving the relationship to setting boundaries and slowly healing, this article will provide guidance on how to recover from a relationship with a narcissist.
Narcissists are all around us, and when we meet up with one, it can range from confusing to damaging, to dangerous. Everyone should be able to identify and cope with narcissistic people.
Traditionally, men have difficulty with intimacy and emotional vulnerability, associating this with weakness.
Adjustment disorder is common in children of divorce. Parents can learn approaches and self-monitoring to help their child ease the adjustment of going through a divorce.
Foster parents can make use of point systems for rewards and shaping positive behaviors in foster children. Doing it the right way and avoiding pitfalls saves time, energy, and frsutration.
While many people get legal divorces, not many get emotional ones. Here are some tips on how to set and keep boundaries with your ex.
Discover how the developmental age of a child impacts their ideas of morality.
What do you do when a child reveals abuse to you? How do you respond?
Understanding the possible reasons for encopresis and enuresis in stress disordered children, ranging from emotional regression to anger.
All children become stressed; some children who have experienced child abuse can become very highly stressed. Know what (and what not) to do when they are in an upset are key skills for the caregiver.