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When a loved one dies, be it unexpectedly or after a long illness, the bereaved typically faces a challenge. "First of all, it's important to grasp the reality of the death and the need to accept it," says Marei Rascher-Held, co-chairwomen of Germany's Federal Association for Grief Counselling (BVT). Many experts in the field of grief psychology no longer speak of "stages" of grief that you passively go through, but rather of active "tasks" of healthy grieving, particularly in cases of traumatic losses such as the death of a child or death due to an accident, natural disaster, homicide or suic...
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When a relative or friend is suffering frum burnout, they need your help. Burnout is the result of a long period of stress which negatively affects your wellbeing. While seeking professional help and being diagnosed is a first, important step, relatives and friends can also do their part to make things easier for the person affected. The most important thing when someone close to you suffers from burnout is to be understanding, says Professor Petra Beschoner, a specialist in psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatic medicine. "Ideally, relatives should educate themselves about the illness an...
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Parents are constantly explaining things to their kids. It's not always easy though, particularly if a family member is struggling with a mental illness. Making a broken arm clear to them is one thing, depression, an anxiety disorder or post-traumatic stress disorder quite another. "Many parents shy away from it," says paediatric psychotherapist Anja Lorenz, because "there's no standard procedure" on how to do it. So they've got to use their imagination. Children, even young ones, usually sense when Mama, Papa, an uncle or grandmother isn't well, Lorenz says, adding that "parents are often sur...
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A gentle touch, a relaxing massage or a firm hug - all these kinds of human contact can alleviate pain, depression and anxiety in adults and children, according to a new analysis of more than 130 international studies. Not only human touch, but also that of robots and cuddly toys makes a difference, according to the analysis, published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour by a research team based in Germany and the Netherlands. "Touch that is desired improves the well-being of people with illnesses in clinical situations as well as healthy people," explained study author Julian Packheiser fro...
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It's something many parents are all too familiar with: Your young child is no longer a baby, and now has a bed and room of their own. Still, they'll patter into your bedroom at night and want to snuggle up with you. You may carry the child back to their room at first, but at some point the parental bed becomes the family bed. Older generations are often disapproving of this, saying it spoils the child and stunts their independence. Is this true? "No," says Barbara Weber-Eisenmann, a social educator, blogger, author - and mother based in Germany. She says that whether or not a child co-sleeps w...
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We all experience "microstresses," some of us more than others: bumps in the road of our lives so small and brief that we barely register them. Not like macrostresses, such as racing your birthing wife to hospital and having your car break down or seeing the bridge ahead has washed out. But while microstresses may seem harmless individually, cumulatively they can sap our energy and damage our physical and emotional health, warn three US researchers. In an article in the Harvard Business Review, based on research on 300 "high performers" in multinational organizations and a global sample of mor...
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The co-founder of Google-owned artificial intelligence (AI) firm DeepMind has said children should be encouraged to play video games because it can help to boost their creativity. Demis Hassabis said his own experiences gaming had played a part in his success as a computer scientist and entrepreneur. He sold DeepMind to Google for a reported $500 million in 2014. "It’s important to feed the creative part, not just playing them (games)," Hassabis said, speaking to the BBC. "You never know where your passions lead, so I would actually just encourage parents to get their children really passionat...
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There's nothing trivial about cancer - the very word is scary, and of course the condition can have dramatic effects - on the patient and those around them. And it can be specially hard to deal with in families with young children. In her video message published earlier in March, Princess Kate said that she needed time to inform her three children Prince George (10), Princess Charlotte (8) and Prince Louis (5). "It has taken us time to explain everything to George, Charlotte and Louis in a way that is appropriate for them, and to reassure them that I am going to be OK." Cancer experts advise a...
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Online violence is on the rise around the world, according to new research that concludes that one in six school children is affected by cyberbullying. Around one in eight schoolchildren aged 11 to 15 stated that they had already bullied someone in a digital space, according to the second report on Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) by the World Health Organization (WHO). The proportion of victims among boys has risen from 12% in the last report in 2018 to 15% and among girls from 13% to 16%. The current report refers to data for the period 2018 to 2022. While 11% of boys stated i...
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Kids grow faster than parents ever expect. Before you know it, they've outgrown their cot, pram and high chair. But how can parents tell when it's time to move on from them, and how they foster their child's development? Before you decide that a certain piece of baby furniture has outlived its usefulness, you should assess the child's level of cognitive and motor development, advises Dana Mundt, a social educator for Germany's Federal Conference for Child Guidance Counselling (bke). "Every child has their own pace of development," she says, so parents shouldn't compare a child with siblings or...
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