“Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.” -Jim Rohn The wish to seek and have a deep sense of family connection and commitment is universal. Ask people what is most important to them and their first answer is always the […]
Depressed Dads Need Help to Help Their Kids
For many years, the medical community has known that when moms are depressed, it puts their children at risk for more emotional and behavioral problems but until recently, the impact of fathers’ emotional health on the children was unexamined. According to a new study which appears in the December issue of the journal Pediatrics, a child’s odds of […]
Marriages Thrive with Good Communication
There are many excellent resources available to couples wanting to learn how to communicate more effectively. One of the several that we like and recommend is now in its third edition. Written by Matthew McKay, Martha Davis and Patrick Fanning, check out Messages: The Communication Skills Book. If when you completed your Current Family Assessment […]
Negative Parentlng of Infants and Toddlers Increases Aggression
Results of a new research study of more than 260 mothers and their children, followed from birth until first grade, were published by University of Minnesota this week. Before the study, researchers believed that the combination of the temperament of the infant and negative parenting, particularly in the toddler phase (think terrible two’s) would put […]
Do I Have to Give Up Me To Be Loved By You?
One of our favorite books for couples has been on the shelves of The Family Therapy Institute of Santa Barbara for almost twenty years and is still selling. Co-authored by Drs. Jordan and Margaret Paul, Do I Have To Give Up Me To Be Loved By You? is now in its second edition and can […]
Being a Good Dad is Most Important to Men
Results from a new research study by Julia McQuillan, professor of sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and co-author of a paper soon to be published in the journal, Fathering, were announced last week. In a survey of 1000 American men who were either married or co-habiting, including both fathers and non-fathers, the men were […]
