A fundamental change has been percolating in how adult children and their aging parents interact. Read more

Ron Taffel talks with Angela Diaz, Director of the Mount Sinai Adolescent Center, on how we can tailor our interventions to meet the unique needs of our young... Read more

In this collection, master therapists share how they’ve used humor in ways that both enliven and enrich the work of therapy. Read more

Sharing how Rich Simon impacted our lives—and the field as a whole. Read more

A controversial method makes talk therapy possible for people who don’t talk. Read more

Engaging kids in talk therapy is often a frustrating struggle. So what happens when you introduce a video game and some cool bioresponsive tech? Read more

As they’re about to surpass baby boomers as the largest generation, millennials are coming to dominate the population of therapy consumers. But their impact... Read more

According to therapist Ron Taffel, author of Breaking Through to Teens, kids who need the extra boost from medication need their therapists to go the extra... Read more

As an estimated half-a-million protestors poured into downtown Washington, DC for the March for Our Lives, therapists who were in town for their field’s... Read more

Editor’s Note: This article this blog is taken from originally appeared in the March/April 1996 issue of Psychotherapy Networker. When his family was... Read more

Given the stigma still attached to psychiatric drugs, it’s no surprise that today’s kids might have reservations about taking them. But as a specialist in... Read more

Out of all the hundreds and hundreds of articles that have appeared in the Networker over the past four decades, we’ve chosen a small sampling that captures... Read more

As we move slowly beyond the great recession, today’s young people are the first American generation in a long while expected to be less well off than their... Read more

We used to think that disordered attachment was the result of early parental neglect or abuse. But today, has a paradoxical mix of parental overinvolvement and... Read more

On top of losing faith in a secure future, mothers and fathers deal with everyday dilemmas that make a joke of traditional parenting rules and childrearing... Read more

As parents become frustrated with officials who can’t help with bullying in schools, they turn to another source. Read more

Ron Taffel discusses how Generation X and Millennials handle authority and raising kids differently than their parents. Read more

When we trust in ourselves to follow the signals of life that the patient emits in seemingly casual conversation, we increase chances of stepping outside the... Read more

[...] with so many contending schedules and dietary demands, is there such a thing as a family mealtime anymore? Compared to the still-life portrait of family... Read more

American parents today face a perfect storm of cultural and social circumstances that undermine the very foundations of parental authority. In response... Read more

Parenting and childhood today often seem to have more in common with abstract expressionism than with Norman Rockwell. But is this transformation of the nature... Read more

For decades before and after World War II, children all over the United States hung out, had slumber parties, made crank phone calls, and played sports... Read more

What to do when the standard techniques of joining provoke furious silence Read more

When family therapist Ron Taffel wrote this article in 1996, an explosive upsurge of youth pop culture called into question the very idea that parents must... Read more

Today, more than ever, parents need to get in synch. Read more