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Importance of Understanding Your Child

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 As a child, do you remember reaching out to your parents for all your small needs? A baby cries and the mother is expected to know what it needs! Children depend on their parents a lot, from their smallest needs to their biggest problems. They look up to their parents for support, guidance, and affirmations on their actions. Therefore, as a parent it becomes important that you understand the needs of your child, to guide and nurture them effectively, as they grow and mature.  Child psychology focuses not only on the physical growth of the child, but also with their mental, emotional, and social developments, throughout the prenatal to adolescence stage. Most parents encounter a few bumps in their road as their children grow from being a baby to a teen to an adult. This is where a professional psychologist can support the parents to learn and grow with their children. A good child psychologist provides sessions on how to deal with problems like Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Dealing with Obsession in the New Normal

The global emergence of the deadly pandemic has not just significantly increased mortality but also has a widespread impact on the mental health of people across the globe. No group of individuals with any form of psychopathy is as much affected by the worsening outbreak of COVID-19 as people suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).                   It is observed that there is considerable conceptual overlap between being vigilant with preventing the spread of the virus and the symptoms of clinical obsessions. Sanitary precautionary measures for the virus that is taken to slow the spread of coronavirus, which has been encouraged in the public could also create great anxiety in the mental health of individuals suffering from OCD. Possibly the normalization of the practices of cleanliness, following the ritualistic behaviors to remain safe from the virus may also become triggers and reinforcements for obsessive thinking and compulsive behaviors. Due to which understanding th