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…
Emotions
What are the functions of emotion? Emotions help us survive by providing an efficient, automatic way of responding rapidly to a situation. For example, when we feel afraid, it signals…
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…
