Throughout history the value and significance of the family unit is evidenced in communities across the globe. They are the building block of society. A family is supposed to provide a space for the provision of emotional, physical and psycho-social […]
Read more →It is a well-known and researched fact that life experiences in childhood like divorce of parents, the death of a loved one, abuse etc. are linked to the development of some mental disorders in childhood and sometimes even much later […]
Read more →When you have young ones sometimes it is a constant battle of stopping them from ingesting nonfood items. Some parents have even ended up in the ER after a child ingested a potentially dangerous item or substance. This behavior is […]
Read more →In Psychology the term self-identity is used to refer to how a person define themselves; it is one’s perception of specific and selective qualities, abilities, aspirations, characteristics and other personal identifiers that represent them. An individual has numerous attributes i.e. […]
Read more →In light of the rampant bullying in schools in South Africa that we have come to watch through social media platforms and one such incident leading to another child committing suicide, we need to talk about teaching children prosocial behavior […]
Read more →Many parents will attest to having experienced or currently experiencing feeding problems with a child. Feeding and eating disorders are actually more common than we think and can affect a child at any point in development, in this series I […]
Read more →Having written about nurturing resilience and prosocial behavior in children it is equally important to write about conduct disorders because sometimes, sadly, the negative behaviors exhibited by some children are as a result of conduct disorders and warrants clinical intervention. […]
Read more →Feeding and eating disorders are characterized by a persistent disturbance of eating or eating- related behavior that results in the altered consumption or absorption of food and that significantly impairs physical health or psychosocial functioning. The last eating disorder that […]
Read more →According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–5), Selective Mutism is a childhood disorder typified by an inability to speak in certain circumstances. To put it plainly, it is a consistent failure to speak in certain social […]
Read more →I will start with my own personal story of experience on self-efficacy and then explain further on what self-efficacy is and what it entails. So I failed my matric at my first sitting, missing my opportunity for university by just […]
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