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"How Money History Can Eliminate Money Mystery"
The financial lessons that you learned growing up deserve a closer examination.
"Money May Talk, But What Is It Saying and Who Is Listening?"
Effective financial communication is key when parents are launching young adults.
"Show Me the Money -- and Deciding How Much Money to Show"
Parents should be financially aligned when trying to empty their nest.
"How Financial Support May Affect Emotional Maturity"
Money matters when it's time to leave home.
"Money Matters, Especially When It's Time to Leave Home"
Knowing what money means to you is good for you — and also for your young adult.
"Do You Do Too Much for Your Adult Child?"
Parents often express to me a sense of befuddlement when it comes to their young adult's hesitancy to take on certain basic grown-up responsibilities.
"Asking Young People About Self-harm"
Rates of self-harm among children and young people are on the rise. Yet, as Brad E. Sachs has experienced, clients can be less likely to share this aspect of their experience than any other. As we mark Self-Injury Awareness Day, the psychologist, author and family therapist suggests why self-harm is so often the 'missing piece' in the therapeutic conversation - and shares a three-stage framework for raising the subject.
"Older Male Clients: A Neglected Resource"
With men over 65 at the greatest risk of suicide, what more can therapists do to support older male clients? As Movember focuses attention on men's mental health, Brad E. Sachs, founder and director of The Father Center, proposes that focusing on a man's rich potential role as a father or grandfather can help struggling clients find new purpose and belonging - long after the nest empties.
"Adolescent Suicidality: Grieving for Childhood"
Being a teenager involves unavoidable developmental losses - for both the adolescent and their parents. It is often unconscious grief around individuation and separation, argues Brad E. Sachs, that is the source of suicidality in young people. Here, the psychologist, author and family therapist explains how exploring the loss of childhood can bring revelation, relief and resolution for both generations.
"Online Therapy with Couples 5/5: Physical Intimacy and the Pandemic"
How is Covid-19 impacting, and illuminating, our work with intimate partnerships? Beginning a new blog series about conducting online How is the Covid-19 pandemic affecting couples' sexual lives? In the final installment of his blog series about conducting couple therapy online during the coronavirus crisis, psychologist and author Brad E. Sachs explores the strain on our sense of togetherness and seperateness that lockdown has brought, and the impact of the crisis on our instincts and drives.
"Online Therapy with Couples 4/5: Anxiety and Crises"
We all respond to crises in different ways. For couples, the Covid-19 pandemic may be causing rifts as each person resorts to contrasting coping mechanisms. Yet, observes psychologist and author Brad E. Sachs, partners often share more anxieties, and anxiety levels, than they think. In the penultimate part of his blog series, he explains how therapists can help couples to stabilise their anxiety and survive - or even thrive - in a crisis.
"Online Therapy with Couples 3/5: Distribution of Labour"
Couples working from home during the Covid-19 crisis have a unique chance to witness the pressures each partner experiences in daily domestic and vocational life. How can couples therapists maximise these opportunities? In the third part of his blog series, psychologist and author Brad E. Sachs explores the concept of relational justice, and suggests ways in which partners in lockdown can be helped to pay closer attention to each other.
"Online Therapy with Couples 2/5: Reading the Virtual Room"
Working remotely with couples in response to social distancing can feel like doing therapy in a 'sensory-deprivation tank'. But it can also bring unexpected benefits. Psychologist and author Brad E. Sachs continues his timely blog series with an exploration of the pros and cons of online couples work - including the window we may obtain into their home environment and interactions.
"Online Therapy with Couples 1/5: A Clinical Quarantine"
How is Covid-19 impacting, and illuminating, our work with intimate partnerships? Beginning a new blog series about conducting online therapy with couples, psychologist and author Brad E. Sachs considers the way in which all couples therapy mimics quarantine - and the importance of establishing ground rules.
"The Time of Corona: Temporality, Crises and Loss"
During the pandemic, we have all become time travellers. Not only do we find our time perception altered in the moment, but we notice our minds returning to shocks and losses from the past. Observing how the theme of time is emerging in his own client sessions during the coronavirus crisis, psychologist and author Brad E. Sachs suggests some ways of promoting thoughtful exploration.
"On The Importance of Treatment Failure"
We do all we can to avoid feelings of failure. And yet, argues Brad E. Sachs, failures in psychotherapy can actually serve the needs of the client. Here, the psychologist and author of recent guidebook The Good Enough Therapist explains why he views it as a considerable accomplishment, between client and therapist, when they reach the point at which both feel like failures.
"The Myth of the Mindful Parent"
Parenthood was never intended to be a peaceful, passive endeavor. Child development is-and will always be-a dynamic, embattled, and, at times, bewildering, process. A certain baseline amount of friction and ruthlessness is to be expected when both generations fight to do their jobs-when children fiercely rattle the family cage as they struggle towards freedom and self-sufficiency, and when parents painfully learn when to release their offspring from the grip of caregiving and how to tolerate feeling abandoned when they are left behind and nudged towards the margins of insignificance.
Dr. Brad Sachs contributes regularly to several blogs on the topics of his books and lectures: