Parenting styles
Ways of parenting that differ in how much warmth and how much demand they contain.
How it shows up
The authoritative style combines warmth with clear boundaries; the permissive has warmth without boundaries; the authoritarian, boundaries without warmth; the uninvolved, neither. Research consistently shows the best outcomes with the first.
What we do with it in therapy
Most parents swing between styles depending on their own tiredness. We work on consistency, which isn’t strictness, and on the warm boundary, which for many is a new combination.
See also
Trauma
Not the event itself but the trace it leaves — when an experience exceeds the capacity to process it and stays in the body as the present.
Envy
An uncomfortable feeling about what someone else has — and often a precise indicator of what you want yourself.
Movement and mood
Regular physical activity has an effect on mild and moderate depression comparable to other forms of help.
