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Leading a Bereavement Group for 9/11 Widows

by Richard B. Joelson, DSW.  Category: For Professionals, Grief Recovery, Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress. 

Leading a Bereavement Group

Instead of ending after 16 weeks as planned, the support group kept going for 41 months.

Reacting and Responding

by Richard B. Joelson, DSW.  Category: Help Me!, Newsletter Articles. 

Reacting and Responding

The distinction between reacting and responding is an important one and one I have emphasized in my psychotherapy and counseling practice.

Patient-Doctor Communication

by Richard B. Joelson, DSW.  Category: Help Me!, Newsletter Articles. 

Patient Doctor Communication

When patients control more of the doctor-patient conversation… they often have better medical outcomes.

Self-Blame or Self-Inquiry?

by Richard B. Joelson, DSW.  Category: Help Me!, Newsletter Articles, Public. 

Self-Blame or Self-Inquiry

While self-blame is something to avoid, a self-inquiry into what they might have done to contribute to an unfortunate circumstance might prove extremely helpful.

The Problem with Anger

by Richard B. Joelson, DSW.  Category: Anger Issues, Relationships and Family Issues. 

Couple in bed, not speaking

How can we use anger to strengthen communication and enhance our relationships?

Hardiness & Grit – Part Two

by Richard B. Joelson, DSW.  Category: Miscellaneous. 

Hardiness & Grit - Richard B. Joelson

One might argue that any therapy has as an implicit objective to help the individual acquire the characteristics associated with hardiness.

Hardiness & Grit – Part One

by Richard B. Joelson, DSW.  Category: Miscellaneous. 

Hardiness & Grit

I have long been interested in understanding why some people seem to be successful in achieving their goals in life and others struggle or fail.

5 Reasons People Stay in Unhappy Relationships

by Richard B. Joelson, DSW.  Category: Relationships and Family Issues. 

5 Reasons Couples Stay Together

There are many factors and forces at play in a failing relationship where one, or both, partners would prefer to be apart, but cannot or will not bring themselves to separate.

Married Bachelors – Married Bachelorettes

by Richard B. Joelson, DSW.  Category: Public, Relationships and Family Issues. 

Married Batchelors - Married Batchelorettes

How might a person, married to someone they love and with whom they are happy, be unhappy being married?  And how can they successfully address it?

Silence in a Relationship

by Richard B. Joelson, DSW.  Category: Relationships and Family Issues. 

Silent Couple on Bench

Unfortunately and too often, the proverbial “awkward silence” is interpreted as a sign of trouble in an ongoing relationship or a sign of social anxiety or social ineptitude in more casual relationships—however these interpretations might not always be accurate.

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