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February 18: National Day to Combat Alcoholism

In addition to being a psychiatrist and attending chemical dependency, I have a secret that I quickly share with patients, which is my own addiction: I am a smoker in abstinence. And, to control my addiction to tobacco more easily, I decided to stop drinking too. I don't miss it. However I quickly realized that when I talk to people about quitting smoking. When I comment on quitting drinking, the information is received with strangeness and disdain. "Congratulations for stopping, especially for the cigarette!"...

February 19, 2020

Do I need therapy? When is it time to get help?

But then, when is the right time to get help? And how can family and people close to someone who is in deep psychological distress help? For none of these questions the answer is simple, but we can think of some points that serve to guide those who are immersed in difficulties of the type. Check out the full text of Psychologist Lucas Schuster on the CEFI Contextus blog: http://terapiascontextuais.com.br/sera-que-preciso-de-terapia/...

February 17, 2020

Guidelines for using the book “Reconcilable Differences: rebuilding your relationship by rediscovering the partner you love, without getting lost” during IBCT couple therapy

This is a book written by the authors of Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT), Neil Jacobson, Andrew Christensen and Brian Doss, to be used as a form of psychoeducation on marital relationships, in addition to being a sort of self-help for couples to improve their relationships. Written in this perspective, it can be read as an "independent" guide for couples, since, in addition to the reading that proposes to reflect on the relationship, there are activities for the couple to carry out. It can also be read while participating in couple therapy in the IBCT approach. See the full text written by psychologist Mara Lins on the contextus Blog: http://terapiascontextuais.com.br/diruntas-para-o-uso-do-livro-diferencas-reconciliaveis-reconstrizando-seu-relação-ao-redescobrir- the-partner-that-you-love-without-getting-lost-during-the-couple-therapy-with-ibct /...

February 10, 2020

Frequent emotions in adolescence: what are they and what to do about them?

In general, in adolescence, emotions arrive as a storm difficult to control. Adolescents do not know what happens or how to respond, they are new experiences that hinder, confuse and frustrate, resulting in having to seek to resolve the situation with improvisation and indisposition. They do what they can with what they have. Check the full text of the psychologist José Ignacio Cruz Gaitán on our blog: http://terapiascontextuais.com.br/emocoes-frequentes-na-adolescencia/...

January 29, 2020

What would you answer me?

The World Health Organization states that there is no "official" definition of mental health. Cultural differences, subjective judgments, and competing related theories affect how "mental health" is defined. Mental health is generally used to describe the level of cognitive or emotional quality of life. It may include an individual's ability to appreciate life and seek a balance between activities and efforts to achieve psychological resilience....

January 24, 2020

Out of control

Are you one of those people who loves to have everything under control? But have you noticed that there are things in life that are completely beyond our control? Even if we know that, we insist on wanting to define how things should be. If it is no longer easy to accept that we do not run the lives of others, and that we have no responsibility for what the other thinks, feels or does, what do you think the idea is that we do not even control what goes on inside us? See the full text of Psychologist Maria Eduarda Alencastro Team CEFI contextus blog:...

January 15, 2020

Current Themes

February 18: National Day to Combat Alcoholism

Do I need therapy? When is it time to get help?

Guidelines for using the book “Reconcilable Differences: rebuilding your relationship by rediscovering the partner you love, without getting lost” during IBCT couple therapy

What is Codependency?

Frequent emotions in adolescence: what are they and what to do about them?

What would you answer me?

Mental health: am I crazy?

WHAT IS THE “SPACE” OF ALCOHOL AND OTHER SUBSTANCES IN YOUR LIFE?

Out of control

White January: Mental Health Talk Month