# Ambience # home # classical conditioning # operant conditioning # behavioral psychology # fun # life We don’t...
Flexibility: Executive Function
admin, , Helping Parents, adolescent, art of living, awareness, bipolar disorder, brain, change, child, cognitive, conduct, domain, executive function, flexibility, forward planning, frustration tolerance, mani pavuluri, opinion, problem solving, resilience, resources, safe, sensorimotor integration, teach, 2# Flexibility # rigidity # set shifting # insistence on sameness # rolling with the punches Ability to be...
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...
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...
Endurance: Crossing the Storms
admin, , Thinking Life, adolescent, art of living, awareness, cognitive, conduct, discipline, emotion, feeling, focus, frustration tolerance, learning, mani pavuluri, peace, prefrontal cortex, thinking, 4# Endurance # Patience # Problem solve # Finding YOU # Grateful Endurance is a beautiful word. I recently...
The “It” and Executive Function
admin, , Helping Parents, adolescent, art of living, brain, child, cognitive, conduct, discipline, domain, executive function, flexibility, forward planning, frustration tolerance, information processing, learning, mani pavuluri, problem solving, stress, 2#Flexibility#Planning#Information-Processing#Problem-Solving One summer, a graduate student from overseas came to work as an extern in my lab. She ran...
Knee Jerk Reaction: Brain’s Non-Reflective Response
admin, , Explaining Brain, adolescent, amygdala, art of living, awareness, bipolar disorder, brain, brain function, child, cognitive, conduct, discipline, emotion, executive function, feeling, frustration tolerance, learning, mani pavuluri, problem solving, stress, teacher, teen, thinking, ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, 0Have you heard of the expressions like- oh he has the brain in the knee, knee jerk reaction or...
Feather Dusting Difficult Communication
admin, , Thinking Life, art of living, awareness, brain, cognitive, conduct, emotion, frustration tolerance, kindness, mani pavuluri, marital conflict, marriage counselling, Projective Identification, relationship, resilience, serene, stamina, stress, thinking, vision, 4Say you are really committed in a relationship to someone you adore. You get along quite fine on all...
Reactive Kid and Emotion Regulation
admin, , Helping Parents, adolescent, amygdala, conduct, discipline, emotion, Emotion Regulation, frustration tolerance, mani pavuluri, problem solving, 0The most important message I give to parents is there is no magic bullet. But a careful reflection and...
Domino Effect of Bullying at School
admin, , Helping Teachers, adolescent, bullying, child, conduct, defend, emotion, friends, learning, mani pavuluri, resilience, school, self esteem, skills, social skills, stress, 2What is often not noted in school is the ripple effect of bullying. Especially in a therapeutic school, but...