What is PCIT?

Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) trains parents to help their children develop emotional and behavioral skills. PCIT directly teaches many parenting skills through two phases: child-directed interaction and parent-directed interaction. The step-by-step approach is accessible to a wide range of families and situations and is strongly backed by decades of research. PCIT sees parents as the agents of change so children can receive daily guidance, helping families progress faster and more effectively.

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Cooking Up Solutions for Picky Eating

Picky eating can be a frustrating problem. At first, babies eat a separate diet, but that changes when you start adding normal food. Some children refuse to eat things based on appearance or texture. You may find it easier to give in to refusals to avoid a tantrum, but that creates a larger problem. In this article, I will explain picky eating, discuss the negative effects, and share tips on how I address it not only as a psychologist but also as a trained chef. I was trained at the Culinary Institute of America in New York. I have worked in multiple restaurants and had a small catering business while I was training to become a psychologist.

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Categories: Life skills

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Tips for Getting the Most Out of Your Summer

Summertime is upon us! For those of us highly affected by a school calendar, the summer provides a break from the typical schedule. Children especially can have a lot of unstructured time. I have fond memories spending my summer vacation as a child on road trips, visiting friends, and going on more than a few visits to the swimming hole! While many consider this break a much-needed reprieve, summer can present some pitfalls.

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What I Learned about Psychology from a Cow, Part 1

What does a cow know about psychology? Apparently, a lot. I have learned many lessons from my dealings with cows in my youth. I grew up on a small dairy farm in Southwest Missouri, in a hilly region known as the Ozarks. The farm was approximately 20 miles from the nearest town, which got its first stop light when I was a senior in high school. To this day, the county I grew up in has more cows (74,000) than people (12,300).

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Skills Transfer: Taking Skills from Therapy to Daily Life

How often do you know what to do in a situation, but you don’t do it? Knowing what you should do and actually doing it are two different things. One of my past supervisors described this as the difference between “knowing knowledge” and “doing knowledge.” Just like music or athletic skills, patients must go through a process to use therapy skills in daily life. Therapists use the term skills transfer to describe the learning process from knowing to doing.

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