Adolescence – Tips for parents of adolescents

March 9, 2005:

Adolescence is a strange wondrous stage, both for the young person as well as the family. No-one can deny that, just as a tadpole becomes a frog, there are biological changes in children in terms of physical and, somewhat slower, emotional maturity. The family, along with the peers and other social force help shape the [...]

Identification Of The Homeostatic Maintainer

I believe that one of the most useful assessment tools available to the family therapist is the concept of the homeostatic maintainer, the individuals or social forces that are maintaining a given problem and must therefore be included in the treatment. The term homeostatic maintainer derives from the word homeostasis or same state. As used [...]

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Enduring Change in Eating Disorders - Interventions with long-term results

This book presents the powerful and proven effective model of Intensive Structural Family Therapy and its application to the treatment of eating disorders.

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    General systems theory refers to the inter-connectivity of all things. This theory developed in the middle part of the last century; it states that everything is connected. Cause and effect are a circle. Each effect causes another cause which causes another effect and so on. Think about that in regards to your own life. A […]
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    There has been an increasing movement over the last few years of patients and families taking more control of their own health. For so many years the responsibility of a person’s health has been given to the healthcare provider. As such, much healthcare is long after prevention. Opportunities for prevention are lost and what is […]
  • Two Week Challenge January 12, 2012
    Change is difficult for everybody. Trying to change long term behavioural patterns, such as eating disorders, can seem impossible. The Two Week Challenge can help. Over a two week period, using the worksheet on this website, track your eating disorder symptoms and what is happening in your life when these symptoms or thoughts occur. Find […]