by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Oct 3, 2017 | Relationships |
Anger is a normal part of every relationship, whether it is between partners, family, friendships, or work relationships. Still, anger that accumulates and remains unprocessed becomes contempt, something much more corrosive and dangerous to all relationship. When...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Jun 1, 2017 | Addiction, Depression, Relationships |
Digital addiction is a behavioral disorder where an individual experiences compulsive use of digital technology, most notably cell phone addiction, internet addiction gaming addiction. It is a term that is often used to describe a person whose interaction with...
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. | Dec 20, 2016 | Depression, Family Therapy, Marriage Counseling, Psychotherapy, Relationships |
A genogram, sometimes called a family map, is a pictorial display of a patient’s family relationships and medical history. It goes beyond a traditional family tree by allowing the user to visualize hereditary patterns and psychological factors that punctuate...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Oct 16, 2016 | Anxiety Treatment, Depression, Marriage Counseling, Premarital Counseling, Relationships |
Marriage counseling is a form of therapy that can help all types of couples in all different types of intimate relationships, whether they are heterosexual or homosexual, married or not. Unfortunately, most marriage counselors report that the majority of couples wait...
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...
