What is Complex Trauma?
What is Trauma? Trauma refers to the psychological distress that follows a very stressful event in which a person directly or indirectly experiences threat to her/his safety. Examples of traumatic…
Fear of Eating
Anorexia nervosa is defined as the never-ending chase for thinness by self-induced starvation despite progressive damage to almost every organ in the body which could result in death. It is…
Emotion-Focused Therapy – Theory of Anxiety Difficulties
EFT (Elliott et al., 1998; see also Paivio & Pascual-Leone, 2010) conceptualises anxiety difficulties first in terms of anxiety splits, internal conflicts in which the person makes themselves anxious. A…
Anxiety in Singapore Students
A 2017 study by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), suggests that Singapore students experience high levels of anxiety and this is exacting a heavy emotional price on…
