De-coding a Defiant Teen’s Message to his Family
I had seen the Franklin family for about three sessions on zoom, and I still didn’t really have a handle
Category: Families
Helping A Child Diagnosed With ADHD: A Powerful Alternative to Medication
It is virtually routine to give kids medications for ADHD. There is an industry organized around ADHD, well orchestrated, with abundant research to create the illusion of scientific certainty. But what happens when you look at the child’s behavior in the context of the family? What happens when parents, rather than being bystanders, are integral to the child’s treatment? What if the family becomes the patient? Check out this feel-good story.
An Unexpected Cure For A Child’s ADHD
All families have Rule Systems, but they may not even know it. In this case story, psychiatrist/family therapist Dave Keith treats a family with a child diagnosed with ADHD. Watch how he disrupts the Family Rule system. Good things happen for the child.
A Mother and Daughter Reunion: It’s Never Too Late
It’s common for people to carry childhood wounds from their parents into adulthood. Sometimes they seek individual therapy for these painful issues. See what happens when the parent becomes part of the therapy.
From A Child’s Perspective: Are My Parents Going To Be OK?
The modern Child Psychiatry perspective is limited to focusing on the child, without including the family culture in which that child lives. This narrow understanding contributes to the child’s isolation. That little person is usually worried about, and trying to help, the parents. No matter how it appears.
What Parents Worry About
To be a parent is to know worry. There’s no escaping it, and there’s really no cure for it. As my blogging buddy David Keith says, “If you can’t stand guilt don’t become a parent.”
The Symbolic Meaning Of A Child’s Symptoms: What’s in the Shadows?
Dave: The birth of the baby represents a quantum jump in intimacy and the complexity of living. There is a
Defiance in Families: Rebellion in the Name of Health
Defiant kids, angry kids, crazy kids, are a byproduct of family interactions, and simultaneously a byproduct of the family’s interaction with the culture.
What is a Child?
Dave: My riddle, “What is a child?” is still in the air. How we think about the questions is influenced