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By Richard Hogan One of the most difficult relationships to navigate is the one we have with our ex-partner in the immediate aftermath of a separation. It brings with it so many…

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Oct 2018

Front Page Questions Answered

Learning Points: Explaining boundaries to grandparents

Richard Hogan suggests how to approach grandparents about boundaries I’ve always tried to encourage my wife’s parents to be an important part of my children’s lives. But increasingly I’m finding the way…

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Sep 2018

Adult Mental Health Front Page

Communication deficit challenged in couples therapy

The nature of our rapidly lived lives can often mean that we lose contact with our partners, writes Richard Hogan. The intimacy that was once so easily expressed in those early days…

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Sep 2018

Front Page Teenagers

Learning Points: Lessons to be learned for child who fears school

When a family comes to me presenting with this problem, I ask: what is this behaviour trying to communicate? All behaviour is a form of communication, so we have to…

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Aug 2018

Education

Richard Hogan offers advice to parents on what to say to children who have missed out on their desired college courses.

Monday brought with it the end to one of the most pressing and agonizing questions that students from all over Ireland have been grappling with since the leaving cert results…

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Aug 2018

Front Page Teenagers

Learning Points: Children need boundaries and parents need space

Boundaries help children to understand the world, when they are communicated clearly and are not oppressive, writes Richard Hogan. Then, they make children feel safe and secure. However, there is another…

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Aug 2018

Front Page Teenagers

Do clear boundaries and rules make a happy home life?

You’ve told your children there is going to be ramifications for the behaviour they displayed in public and now you’re home and it’s time to implement those promises but as…

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Jul 2018

Front Page Questions Answered Teenagers

I’m ‘losing’ my 16-year-old daughter to a controlling boyfriend

My 16-year-old daughter has been dating her boyfriend for four months. She was always such a bubbly, outgoing girl, but she has changed and I am very concerned about her.…

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Jul 2018

Front Page Teenagers

Health, fitness and steroid abuse

ONE of the most striking aspects I’ve noticed about working with teenagers in schools over the last 18 years is the sheer level of determination and commitment to self-improvement. When I…

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Jul 2018

Front Page Teenagers

Learning Points: Parents need to wake up to gaming addiction

In last weeks article I discussed how The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently classified online gaming as a new mental health condition. For all of us working in the mental…