The threat of Covid-19 has affected all of us regardless of our nationality, location, gender, age, educational level, financial power, and social status. We are all experiencing the anxiety of an uncertain future in terms of health, wealth and occupational security. The world is changing fast as well as our daily routine and the processes [...]
From the time they are born, children perpetually watch their parents, learning and mimicking our behaviours. They shape their value as individuals, their identities and perceptions of the world (either as a positive and safe place or a threatening and unsafe place) through us. When, as parents, we speak to ourselves kindly and with [...]
Depression is one of the leading psychological illnesses today, especially in adolescents. Although, only half the teenagers suffering from depression are diagnosed before reaching adulthood, they are particularly vulnerable to depression. Depressive feelings are intrinsically connected with the main function of adolescence: “The search for one’s identity”. Adolescents frequently agonize over defining themselves socially [...]
Mankind and scientists have been concerned with the answer to the following question: Do children come to this world as tabula rasa (i.e. clean slate) or is their behavior and emotional makeup genetically predetermined? In order to answer this question psychologists have primarily attempted to define emotions and their origin. However, researchers have not reached [...]
Have you ever caught yourself using the same hurtful phrases on your kids that your parents used on you? The first memory of our child is daydreaming looking at the ultrasound photo of our first baby, making plans about the activities we will enjoy together and the love we will shower our child with. [...]
The globalization process in our fast moving world has created a new cast of children, the Third Culture Kids (TCKs). A TCK is defined as a person who has spent a significant part of his developmental years outside the parent's culture (passport country). The TCK often builds relationships to all of the cultures, while [...]
