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Parenting, grandparenting, brainspotting: kids’ memories

by Elaine Korngold

This article describes how grandparents can create shared memories with their grandchildren. “When we think about what we leave behind as grandparents, we hope we will have transmitted lessons about kindness, justice, strength and confidence, the boundless nature of love.” … Read more

Categories Brainspotting, Immigration, Life Transitions, Parenting

Brainspotting: trauma and diagnosis

by Elaine Korngold

A new study, published in Psychiatry Research, has concluded that psychiatric diagnoses are scientifically worthless as tools to identify discrete mental health disorders. People who receive a diagnosis related to the trauma they experienced survived in the best way they … Read more

Categories Brainspotting, Immigration, Life Transitions

Brainspotting Trauma and PTSD Therapy: a short video explanation

by Elaine Korngold

When we experience a traumatic event it literally lives in our brains and impacts our thoughts, feelings and actions in ways we may not realize, even after we’ve talked about it until we’re blue in the face. Brainspotting is treatment … Read more

Categories Brainspotting, Immigration, Life Transitions

Immigration Adjustments: immigrants struggle less

by Elaine Korngold

Immigration Adjustments – Despite the stresses of migration and adapting to life in a new country, immigrants arriving at age 11 or older “are far less likely to have mental health problems compared to people born in the United States. … Read more

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