by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Oct 25, 2017 | Anxiety Treatment, Counseling, Depression, Family Therapy, Grief
As modern medicine has made huge advances the process of death itself has changed. It has been transformed from an often sudden event into a lengthy process that begins with a terminal diagnosis. The diagnosis along with its subsequent prognosis is many times the...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Aug 31, 2017 | Anxiety Treatment, Counseling, Dementia, Depression, Eating Disorders |
Depression among caregivers is so common that there is a term for it: caregiver depression. This particular type of depression can take a serious toll on a caregiver and affect the caregiver’s ability to care for a loved one. Although the bulk of research involving...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Apr 9, 2017 | Anxiety Treatment, Counseling, Depression, Grief, Psychotherapy |
There’s a huge debate among mental health professional as to whether grief can actually ever be overcome. Those who argue that it cannot claim that the best that we can hope for when processing grief is that it be managed. Either way, there are things that a grieving...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Jan 27, 2017 | Counseling, Emotions, Psychological Development, Relationships |
Robert Plutchik was a psychologist who developed a psychoevolutionary theory of emotion, considered one of the most influential classification approaches for general emotional responses. Plutchik suggested that there were eight basic emotions; anger, fear, sadness,...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Jul 29, 2016 | Counseling, Relationships |
The two-factor theory (also known as Herzberg’s motivation-hygiene theory and dual-factor theory) states that there are certain factors in the workplace that cause job satisfaction while a separate set of factors cause dissatisfaction, all of which act...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Feb 7, 2016 | Counseling, Eating Disorders, Psychotherapy |
Counseling psychology is a form of applied psychology that is used by psychologists and psychotherapists to help people improve their lives. In practice, counseling psychology focuses on treating individuals with a wide range of emotional, behavioral, vocational, and...
