Passing Anxiety Onto Your Children – Or Not

Passing Anxiety Onto Your Children – Or Not

Last month, Francheska wrapped up her annual live 24-week DBT-C Superparenting training for parents and caregivers. In furthering our mission to train in multiple languages, we offered simultaneous Spanish interpretation for parents throughout Iberoamérica for the...
Core Problem Analysis: Bringing Dialectics to DBT

Core Problem Analysis: Bringing Dialectics to DBT

By Francheska Perepletchikova, PhD. To download the entire journal, click here The DBT Bulletin For a deeper dive into each core sense, see these past articles and interviews on CPA on Dr. Perepletchikova’s ChildDBT site: Introduction to Core Problem Analysis:...
The Siren Call of AI Intimacy

The Siren Call of AI Intimacy

I’ve been thinking a lot about how algorithmic attachment (defined as users forming emotional ties with AI companions) correlates with other addictive behaviors such as substance use, that make you feel better in the short-term. AI bots make you feel safe to divulge...
Ready or not, here comes AI companions

Ready or not, here comes AI companions

Right when the impacts of social media and smart phones on children’s mental health have been made clear through multitudes of data-driven research and through books such as Girls on the Brink by Donna Jackson Nakazawa and The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt,...
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