Few parents consider ways their children are impacted by arguements and conflict within the family. Many believe as long as the kids are not present during conflict that this is acceptable. Listen to this and reconsider!
Understanding Co-Parental Conflict
PART 1: Discusses the types of conflict that plaques parents as they attempt to re-align their lives to navigate parenthood in a conflict striffed environment.
PART 2: Outstanding presentation that explicitly helps parents understand the impact conflict has on children. Really clarifies what children experience, and methods that can be used to avoid them from suffering unnecessarily.
PART 3: Ideas that help a person reduce Parental Conflict. Give insight into breaking down the mechanisms of what is going on and helps you step back and see the dynamic before things go to far.
The Idiots Around Me Make Me Angry? He said "If you knew the people I dealt with you would understand why I am crazy." So many of people I work with express their frustration that it is "others" that force them into being Angry. See what I have to say. Dr GAP
Is this the Right Person for Me?: Finding the right person for you is a challenging and difficult task. However, there are questions you can ask yourself, and your partner, that will help you gain an understanding of where the relationship is heading. This audio is in response to an email. 11 Min MP3
Am I In Love? Too many of our clients are confused about what love is. Typically they misundestand their own emotions and assume they have a Love relationship because they misinterpret their own feelings. In a society that has a Divorce rate approaching 50 % I offer some suggestions that might help you to understand what you are feeling. Dr GAP
Normal Families Part One: Because of length this is divided into two parts. Part One - Defindes Normal Families; Any family that problem solves suffiently well enough that each member can meet their potential. Then, lists and discusses the Characteristics of Normal Familes: Roles, Rules, Rituals, Routines, Values, Boundaries, Individual Rights etc.
Normal Families Part Two: This is the last 20 minutes of Normal Families. Explains Intimacy, Problem Solving, and gives ideas on how to restore a family to some degree of fulfilling its potential individually and as a family.
Couples Communiations: 90% of all the couples that come to Interventions report they do not communicate well. This recording develops 5 reasons they don't communciate well and recommends 6 things they can do to improve their ability to communicate. Dr GAP
Scorecarding: Selectively bringing up past failures for the purpose of winning a argument, beating someone down or pointing out other failures. Tends to be damaging to relationships as it only rekindles past arguements, hurt feelings and failures. It derails from maintaining a positive "solutions" oriented approach to a moving forward. Contact me at profgap@tampabay.rr.com if you have questions. Dr GAP
