Emotion recognition can be thought of as the ability to identify and understand emotions in other people. The concept of ‘emotional awareness’ can be thought of a person’s ability to notice and understand their own emotions. Both emotion recognition and emotional...
I’ve worked as a psychologist with our team to support children and young people for over 25 years and over the last decade I’ve seen a significant increase in the number of parents who seek mental health treatment for their children and young people. While therapy...
Many children with mental, emotional, or social health challenges are engaged in some kind of therapeutic program – this might be a course of one-to-one therapy, a group program, online learning programs, or even self-help books or workbooks. There are thousands of...
Have you looked directly into someone’s eyes today when you spoke with them? Did it help you understand them? Or connect with them? Or did it make you feel uncomfortable? And (perhaps more interestingly) was this eye contact something you thought about, or lack of...
Siblings all over Australia spent the weekend playing happily together, then fighting, then playing again. Some research shows that younger siblings fight on average every 17 minutes. How did your kids go? It’s challenging to help kids play well with their...
One of the important questions I ask the children and teens I work with is this: “would you please tell me about your friends?”. This question sometimes surprises them (and their parents). When they made an appointment to see a psychologist they were expecting...
