Raising children is very hard work. While each developmental stage presents its own difficulties, adolescence is certainly one of the hardest for parents to negotiate. The journey becomes especially tortuous if children experience emotional difficulties.

Memories and trauma - Can we can erase memories that hurt us?

According to the book Positive Psychology, at its inception, the field of psychology concerned itself very much with humans needs for happiness, and looked for ways to help them find love, hope and freedom from debilitating fear and limitation.

As there is in psychology, there are any number of books and resources available for couples to help them determine what exactly isn't working in their relationships.

How much are our feelings influenced by biology and how much by social experience? How do romantic love, sexuality, and attachment relate to one another?

Parents throughout the ages have suffered numerous concerns about the behaviour of their adolescent sons and daughters.

When couples and families begin to get into difficulties with their relationships, there can often be a huge amount of reluctance for them to seek help. Often though, their reasons for not doing so are based on myths.

For anyone who has heard talk of panic attacks but never actually experienced one, it would be easy to imagine them to involve nothing more than a slight and momentary feeling of fearfulness.

No matter what our sexual orientation, every one of us has the potential to fall prey to emotional or psychological difficulties stemming from a huge range of issues.

Depression and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Death is an existential fact, and it is more than likely the model for all human feelings of abandonment and separation. It is then so difficult to understand why one should not feel anxious when confronted with departing the life he finds so rewarding and enriching.

This study investigates the role of trait emotional intelligence (trait EI) characteristics, such as emotion-related behavioural dispositions and self-perceived abilities, among students in 13 vocational courses at a college in Cyprus.