A school counselor’s patient work with a sad, uncommunicative young boy demonstrates what a difference just being there can make. * Commentary by Janet... Read more

What parent doesn’t know the ache of helplessness that comes when you can’t do anything for your child but feel entirely responsible anyway? Read more

A son remembers a distant father and the bittersweet ritual that bonded them. Read more

A young child’s bedroom is a place for magic and enchantment. Read more

How to help the concerned parents of aggressive kids understand the complexities of moral development. Read more

Sorting through his mother’s personal files in the wake of her dementia, a son discovers more than he expected. Read more

When an adult is in your consulting room, it’s understandable if you use adult language and logic. But at certain points in the healing process, you may need... Read more

Marianne Walters didn't invent a brilliant new therapeutic paradigm, publish a large and magisterial body of research, or establish her own unique school of... Read more

Helping families heal cutoffs is painstakingly delicate work, with a high risk for stumbling over buried land mines. Read more

As we move slowly beyond the great recession, today’s young people are the first American generation in a long while expected to be less well off than their... Read more

We used to think that disordered attachment was the result of early parental neglect or abuse. But today, has a paradoxical mix of parental overinvolvement and... Read more

Most parents “loan” children their adult regulatory system beginning at birth. But developmentally traumatized teens have missed out on this opportunity... Read more

We've become so focused on keeping children safe that we exaggerate the dangers they face despite the fact that they’ve never been safer. Still, no amount of... Read more

From the first cell division to the final journey down the birth canal, risks and dangers abound. Read more

Connecting with today’s youth doesn’t mean being able to recite Justin Bieber’s latest hit. According to Janet Edgette, author of Adolescent Therapy That... Read more

When Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy developer Daniel Hughes first started working with children who struggled with serious behavioral and emotional... Read more

Anxiety is a demanding beast, with a long list of conditions that must be met to keep it at bay. It forces anxious children and their families to banish... Read more

On top of losing faith in a secure future, mothers and fathers deal with everyday dilemmas that make a joke of traditional parenting rules and childrearing... Read more

As parents become frustrated with officials who can’t help with bullying in schools, they turn to another source. Read more

PN Founder Rich Simon talks with Ken Hardy about finding the heroism amongst young clients that helps them survive. Read more

Ron Taffel discusses how Generation X and Millennials handle authority and raising kids differently than their parents. Read more

To work as a school social worker in the Bronx’s high-crime, low-income Hunt’s Point neighborhood is to become an expert at expecting the unexpected. Read more

Daniel Hughes has many techniques to suggest when working with troubled children who have put up a wall. Read more

With his son’s freedom hanging in the balance, a father must decide whether to give the gift of forgiveness one more time. Read more

In an encyclopedic new book, Andrew Solomon explores how parents and children forge emotional bonds with one another in the presence of sometimes vast inborn... Read more

A man entering his sixties discovers some peculiar markers that signal a retreat from old oppositional habits. Read more

A young woman confronts the myths and dilemmas of motherhood. Read more

The word psychopath distinguishes hard-bitten predators. Research shows a treatment center—run by shrinks, not wardens—has reduced new violent offenses by... Read more

It’s probably fair to say that most teens loathe the very idea of therapy. Yet, with confused and troubled adolescents needing our help more than ever, the... Read more

While some believe the incidence of school bullying has reached epidemic proportions, therapists remain largely uninformed about the nature of the problem and... Read more