Grooming an irritable child or adolescent is like holding a hot potato, right? But you can’t quite drop it!...
Thinking and Feeling Good: Tune up with Mike and Mani podcast
admin, , Explaining Brain, adolescent, art of living, awareness, brain, child, conduct, executive function, mani pavuluri, problem solving, resilience, whole brain networks, 0Staying Connected–Using Storytelling and Other Techniques to Maintain Communication Dr. Pavuluri talks to Mike about the real-world challenges —...
Formative Years of Teen Identity: Dealing with Imperfection
admin, , Helping Parents, adolescent, art of living, awareness, conduct, development, focus, frustration tolerance, mani pavuluri, teen, 0This is true for at least on one day of the teen life, if not a lot, as teens...
Ambience at Home: Fun Begins with Action
admin, , Thinking Life, adolescent, art of living, awareness, brain, child, classical conditioning, conduct, decoration, dysphoria, emotion, home, mani pavuluri, operant conditioning, Pavlovian, peace, space, stimulus, 0# Ambience # home # classical conditioning # operant conditioning # behavioral psychology # fun # life We don’t...
Flexibility: Executive Function
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Caution Vs. Risk with Suicidal Teen: Heart of the Matter is Neither
admin, , Helping Teachers, adolescent, break up, breakup, child, classroom, cognitive, conduct, counselling, depression, emotion, frustration tolerance, kindness, mani pavuluri, problem solving, resilience, safety, suicidal ideation, suicide, teacher training, teen, 0Well, what I want to say is it is not white and black ever when it comes to determining...
Thinking and Feeling Circuits in the Brain are Interconnected: Managing Filters
admin, , Explaining Brain, amygdala, anterior cingulate cortex, basal ganglia, brain function, cognitive, domain, emotion, mani pavuluri, medial prefrontal cortex, posterior cingulate cortex, prefrontal cortex, resilience, ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, 0# Emotion # Feeling # Thinking # Problem solving # Filters of Expression# Brain circuitry To be super precise,...
The Common Root Problem of Anxiety: A Perspective to Manage
admin, , Helping Parents, amygdala, anxiety, brain, brain function, cognitive, domain, emotion, frustration tolerance, mani pavuluri, medial prefrontal cortex, nervous, prefrontal cortex, reactivity, stress, ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, 4anxiety # worry # fear # brain # solution You think of an angry man, frustrated girl, irritated boy,...
Home life: Executive Function
admin, , Helping Parents, art of living, cognitive, conduct, emotion, executive function, frustration tolerance, impulse control, information processing, mani pavuluri, problem solving, resilience, 0Oh, yea, this is summer! All (well, lot of) parents are thinking of how to get kids to find that...
Organization: An Executive Function
admin, , Helping Parents, adolescent, child, clutter, cognitive, domain, emotion, executive function, feeling, flexibility, focus, forward planning, frustration tolerance, information processing, learning, longterm memory, mani pavuluri, organization, priority, problem solving, school, thinking, time management, working memory, 0If there is one cognitive or thinking problem children face, it is organization- a spoke of executive function- to...