Special Article Download – Parenting through the Coronavirus Lockdown by Richard Hogan

Special Article Download at bottom of this article Today’s teenagers are growing up in a whole new digital world different from that of their parents’ generation. While every generation of parents has to learn how to navigate their children’s first steps into adolescence and adulthood, the environment in which it is happening now is rapidly changing. Parenting…

ByTherapy_Institute07/05/20200Comments

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Irish Times Article – Timely advice for coping with the screenager in our lives

At a time when teenagers are confined to home, Richard Hogan’s new book has useful tips for parents Irish Times Article Link > https://www.irishtimes.com/timely-advice-for-coping-with-the-screenager-in-our-lives-1.4204427 In this time of social distancing most parents of teenagers are spending a lot more time in closer proximity to their offspring. How’s it going for you? As in any relationship, new…

ByTherapy_Institute25/03/20200Comments

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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 decipher what the behaviour is telling us. What has occurred to cause this maladaptive behaviour and how can it be changed? But, as I said last…

ByTherapy_Institute06/09/20180Comments

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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 boundary to consider, one that promotes a healthy relationship between the parents as they endeavour to meet the demands on the modern family. The boundary I’m…

ByTherapy_Institute09/08/20180Comments

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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 I said, you’re tired, even exhausted and you do nothing. Instead, your child is in front of you demanding a chocolate biscuit, you know there is…

ByTherapy_Institute02/08/20180Comments

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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. She has lost all her friends, because she only spends time with her boyfriend. I think he has started to control her. He seems miserable…

ByTherapy_Institute26/07/20180Comments

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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 was growing up as a teenager in the ’90s I never heard of abs or obliques. I never had a conversation about macros and micros.…

ByTherapy_Institute19/07/20180Comments

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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 health profession, especially with teenagers, this came as little surprise, because parents have been accessing services for many years now seeking advice for their children…

ByTherapy_Institute12/07/20180Comments

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‘Gaming disorder’ is a new mental health condition

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recently recognised a new kind of mental health condition. For many parents and psychotherapists alike it will be a familiar aliment, one that has been present in the family and clinic for many years now. It is a disorder that psychotherapists have had difficulty finding language for, because up until June…

ByTherapy_Institute05/07/20180Comments

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Learning points: Exposure to porn corrupts young vulnerable minds

The terrible crimes that shook this country over the last number of weeks left all of us feeling a little numb and confused. Anastasia Kriegal’s murder at the hands of, what now appears to be, her classmates, is as incomprehensible as it is terrifying. And the senselessness of the Jastine Valdez abduction and murder by a stranger…

ByTherapy_Institute31/05/20180Comments