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In psychiatric and psychological practice, it is often assumed that when people present for an assessment the mere act of attendance suggests that the person has decided that he or she wants ‘something’, either a diagnosis or treatment. This also implies that the patient recognizes that something is wrong, that something distresses them and that they want to change or overcome their ‘problem’. A further assumption is that it is the job of the health care practitioner to give information,

advice or practical help, so as to induce positive change, improvement in health and reduce distress in their patient.

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Cognitive problem-solving strategies are not transmitted magically from parents to children, but they are acquired through experience, observation, and interaction with others. For our purposes, the use of cognitive strategies can be maximized through intentional and planned intervention. Varying styles of information processing have profound effects on how one makes sense of the world and one’s experiences in it, and dysfunctional information processing requires attention and modification. 

Correcting faulty information processing (i.e., changing distorted thinking) and/or teaching strategies to overcome a deficiency in information processing (i.e., overcoming deficiencies in thinking) are both valuable steps in the treatment of psychological disorders of youth.

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Emotional Dysregulation

Emotion Dysregulation

Emotion dysregulation is the inability, even when one’s best efforts are applied, to change or regulate emotional cues, experiences, actions, verbal responses, and/or nonverbal expressions under normative conditions. Pervasive emotion dysregulation is seen when the inability to regulate emotions occurs across a wide range of emotions, adaptation problems, and situational contexts.

Pervasive emotion dysregulation is due to vulnerability to high emotionality, together with an inability to regulate intense emotion-linked responses. Characteristics of emotion dysregulation include an excess of painful emotional experiences; an inability to regulate intense arousal; problems turning attention away from emotional cues; cognitive distortions and failures in information processing; insufficient control of impulsive behaviors related to strong positive and negative affect; difficulties organizing and coordinating activities to achieve non-mood-dependent goals during emotional arousal; and a tendency to “freeze” or dissociate under very high stress. It can also present as emotion overcontrol and suppression, which leads to pervasive negative affect, low positive affect, an inability to up-regulate emotions, and difficulty with affective communication. Systemic dysregulation is produced by emotional vulnerability and by maladaptive and inadequate emotion modulation strategies.

Emotional vulnerability is defined by these characteristics:

           (1) very high negative affectivity as a baseline,

           (2) sensitivity to emotional stimuli,

           (3) intense response to emotional stimuli, and

           (4) slow return to emotional baseline once emotional arousal has occurred.

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The Battle Against Underage Drinking

Before we get into specific tips, tricks, and strategies to help fight underage drinking, let's take a look at the problem:

• In 2013, around 8.7 million young people (between the ages of 12 and 20) reported drinking in the past month
• In the same year, around 5.4 million young people identified as binge drinkers
• Around 700,000 young people struggled with an alcohol use disorder in 2013 (that's 2.8% of this entire age group)
• Only around 70,000 received treatment

Those are some stark numbers. Things get even worse when you move to the 18 and up age range:

• 16.6 million people over the age of 18 struggled with an alcohol use disorder in 2013 (that's 7% percent of this entire age group)
• Only around 1 million people received treatment

Tips & Tricks for Parents

The first thing to remember is that while underage drinking's dangerous on many different levels, it isn't a death sentence. In fact, many teens don't drink at all.
If you think your child's drinking, the first thing to do is talk to them. We've complied a list of helpful resources below, the first two of which are focused on talking to teens about drinking.
When talking with your child, remember the following:

• Don't lecture - no one likes to be lectured to, especially teenagers.
• Explain the dangers of underage drinking with specific examples. In other words, don't say "drinking is bad," rather explain how drinking sometimes leads to drinking and driving.
• Avoid getting angry. Anger can easily turn a conversation into an argument, which helps nobody.
• Be honest! If you drank as a teen, tell your kid that! Honesty goes a long way in establishing trust.
• Ask questions. While your child may not answer honestly, it's important to show them you're interested & willing to listen.
• Continue the conversation. It's uncomfortable to talk to your kids about the dangers of underage drinking - don't let that stop you! Remember to keep the conversation going & talk more than once
• It's also important to remember there are many reasons why teens drink. While it's tempting to blame peer pressure or another child's "bad influence," this isn't always the case. Ask them why they're drinking, or thinking about drinking, to get the truth.
  Having an open and honest conversation is a great way to begin the dialogue with your child. This isn't the only strategy though. There are other ideas to consider, including:
• Seeking professional help from a family therapist, treatment center, or other substance abuse professional.
• Working with the PTA or another school-based program to come up with alternatives to drinking.
• Offering alcohol-free social events (this doesn't mean throwing a party & hanging out with your kids at it - no one wants that - rather, let your kids & their friends know they can hang out at your house without alcohol).

our self..... primary self and disowned self

How do you know who your primary and disowned selves are? The qualities that you admire excessively or overvalue in others, and those qualities that you really judge in others, give you a good indication of who your disowned selves are. So if you really admire someone who is an artist and you think that they are better than you because of their artistic ability, then you have probably disowned your own artistic self and you might have as a primary self a very logical, practical self. And if you really can't stand someone who is blatantly selfish and you judge them for being selfish, then you have probably disowned your selfishness and have as a primary self a giving self.

What you have disowned and what is primary in you, also gives you a good indication of what kinds of people you will be attracted to and enter into relationship with.

The two main scenarios are:

1. You will like people who have similar primary selves to you, and you will dislike people who’s primary selves are your disowned selves. You will usually choose as friends those people who's primary selves you like.

2. But you will be attracted to (and at other times repelled by) people who carry your disowned selves, either the positive ones or negative ones. Usually we will enter into quite intense relationships with people who carry our disowned selves.

relationship..........................

We all conduct our relationships with other people using our personality. Our personality, however, is made up of various parts, which can be called sub-personalities or selves. So when we relate with others there are quite a few different selves involved in our relationships. This is why relationships are never simple or easy. It is rather like there are two families or two groups relating, and not just two people. This is why sometimes we feel caring towards our partner and at other times we want to be cared for; it is why sometimes we admire a quality in our partner tremendously and at other times we see that same quality as a fault; and why sometimes something our partner does amuses us and at other times that same action irritates us.

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The Problem:

W: Do you love me? (accusing tone)

H: Of course I do. How many times have I told you?

W: Well it doesn’t feel like it (tears, looks down, turns away)

H: (Sighs-exasperated) Well, maybe you have a problem then. I can’t help it if

you don’t feel loved. (Set mouth, lecturing tone.)

W: Right. So it’s my problem is it? Nothing to do with you, right? Nothing to do

with your ten feet thick walls. You’re an emotional cripple. You’ve never

felt a real emotion in your life.

H: I refuse to talk to you when you get like this. So irrational. There is no

point.

W: Right. This is what always happens. You put up your wall. You go icy. Till I

get tired and give up. Then, after a while, when you want sex you

decide that I am not quite so bad after all.

H: There is no point in talking to you. This is a shooting gallery. You’re so

aggressive.

Rigid pattern- blame/withdraw and absorbing states of negative emotion form

feedback loop. No safe emotional connection-escalating danger and isolation.

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