Building Self-Worth in Children It's important for parents, caregivers, and educators to understand the impact of feedback on a child's self-esteem. There are several types of feedback, including positive or negative, outcome-focused or process-focused. The kind of feedback you use can impact how your child sees...
It's important for parents, caregivers, and educators to understand the impact of feedback on a child's self-esteem. There are several types of feedback, including positive or negative, outcome-focused or process-focused. The kind of feedback you use can impact how your child sees themselves. For example, feedback...
Mother's Day is an annual holiday celebrated to honour and appreciate mothers and motherhood. It is typically observed on the second Sunday in May in more than 40 countries around the world. Mother's Day is a day to show gratitude and appreciation for all that...
Emotional Labour is not a new term. Arlie Hochschild, a sociologist, first introduced the term in 1983 in his book The Managed Heart. It refers to labour undertaken in workplaces and domestic life involving the management of emotional expression. Hochschild argued emotional labour had a...
Bullying is a persistent and deliberate behaviour in which an individual or a group of individuals intentionally hurt, harm, or intimidate another individual who is perceived as weaker or vulnerable. Bullying may take many forms such as physical, verbal, social, or cyberbullying. For example, a...
Women and gender diverse people experience chronic illness and mental health issues different from men. These differences are linked to: Gender bias experienced from childhoods, through education and in workplaces Sexism Gender based violence, both in the personal (domestic and intimate partner violence) and public...
What does my child’s behaviour mean? Understanding what motivates other people’s behaviour can be difficult, and this is even more the case when it comes to children. Trying to make seen of what causes or motivates your child’s behaviour can leave you feeling confused, frustrated, and...
Dr Ceylan Celen is one of our psychologists here at Vida Psychology. In this podcast, she shares how DBT, a type of cognitive behavioural therapy, is helping her patients manage PMDD. There are many strategies shared in this episode and we speak about one of the...
By Sabrina Brient. Grief is a known response to loss. This loss can be a result of death; the death of a family member or friend, a pet. It can also occur in the context of other events that constitute a loss. For example: A family...
By Lucimey Lima Although the adjectives of this title seem to be contradictory, as ‘lovely’ and ‘challenging’ can be hard to imagine when describing a single phase of life. However, these two words and the feelings they represent co-exist in how a family can experience a...