Social Psychiatry Blog

Parents Concerned About How Pornography Harms Child Development

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Sean Brooks, Executive Director of Oxbow Academy, spoke with Lon Woodbury and Liz McGhee about how pornography harms child development on the L.A. Talk Show about Parent Choices for Struggling Teens. The show is sponsored by Father Flanagan’s Boys Town. Host Lon Woodbury is an Independent Educational Consultant in Idaho while Co-Host Liz McGhee is the admissions director for Sandhill Child Development Center in New Mexico. They discussed with Sean how pornography has got worse over the past thirty years and how teens are being targeted as customers.


The Psychology Of Clothes: What Are These Kids Thinking?

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Host Lon Woodbury and co-host Elizabeth McGhee from L.A. Talk Radio’s Parent Choices for Struggling Teens interviewed Betty Kreisel Shubert on the subject of “what are these kids thinking?” The interview discussed how fashion in the United States has transformed from one generation to the next – until we now have adolescents who wear anything from rainbow-colored Mohawks to harsh black Gothic costumes. Host Lon Woodbury is an independent educational expert. Co-host Liz McGhee is admissions director for Sandhill Youth Child Development Center in New Mexico.


Book Review: “just Ask A Child” By Colleen Norris

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Colleen Norris, the author of “Just ASK a Child: How to Give Children Wings to SOAR”, which will be available by the end of the year on Amazon.com and elsewhere, explained to Lon Woodbury, host of the struggling teens talk show on L.A. Talk Radio, how to build a platform for children to grow up successfully.


Befriending A Damaging Self-Belief

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“Factor-x” believes you are in some kind of danger. When we were very young, possibly still at the toddler stage, we took on a certain self-belief. If the self-belief was negative, it was taken on as a survival mechanism against our environment. Factor-x is a child version of yourself – it is not the enemy.


Why Choose A Suffocating Life?

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When living a life based on either our own meaning or a negative self-belief that we took on as young children (“Factor-x”), we’ll find that there will be incidents where either of the two will come up. This makes a difference to how we “spice” our lives.


The Undercurrent Of Our Dreams

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We likely don’t know how to interpret our daydreams. Our vision, plans and aims can evolve our daydreams, which come about from the underlying feelings and undercurrents of our experiences. When we haven’t yet uncovered our meaning, we’re likely to misunderstand our daydreams – to interpret them based on our frame of reference, as created by ourselves within society’s standards and norms.


Where is Humankind Headed?

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Every day, wherever we go, whatever we read, and whomever we encounter, it’s the same thing. Humankind behaves in certain, specific ways, and we seem to be oblivious to our behavior.


Taking The Lead In Our Own Lives

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As a trusting species, we humans follow very easily. In our upbringing, we are discouraged from questioning our elders. And it seems we just never shake off our automatic compliance. We see proof of this happening in our own lives, and what we experience emotionally when we even think of questioning anything or anyone.


Expectations

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Expectation spawns frustration, frustration spawns anger, and we become irritable. Every day, we create expectations for a variety of things. No matter how well-meaning our expectation, the moment the expectation isn’t met, our emotions take a beating. It’s as though we’re barely able to resist taking a beating from unmet expectations.


Ways To Be Supportive During A Death In The Family

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Family members can find the death of a loved one very painful and hard. The death of a person can influence a lot of decisions in the family.