Word: therapist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...daughter Megan got expelled from day care for ignoring teachers and fighting with other kids, Steele knew it was time to see a professional. But while Megan soon got help from a child psychiatrist, Steele, a single mom and owner of a dog-grooming business in Houston, found the therapists she saw to deal with her own stress either insincere or judgmental. When a friend suggested online therapy, Steele decided to give it a try. Now, each Tuesday night, she logs on to the website concernedcounseling.com for a 50-min. session in a private chat room, typing messages back...
...Skokie, Ill., is the family Internet cop, making certain at least once a month to open all the files that have been downloaded by her two teenage sons--which she'll do, she says, "whether the boys are there or not. And they know it." Carleton Kendrick, a family therapist in Medfield, Mass., suggests that accompanying your child to a website he frequents is no different from "checking out a playground where your kids go, to see that it's safe, to see who hangs around there...
...There are now 15 million stepmothers in the U.S., most of them with part-time custody. While there are obviously stepmothers who love the role, many other women encounter problems. "You have to learn how to traverse a minefield of emotions--yours, your husband's and the kids'," says therapist Sue Patton Thoele, author of The Courage to Be a Stepmom...
...Hopefully this child will be able to play in the yard across the street," says Fantoro, who will be returning to her job as a massage therapist at University Health Services in August...
...Part of your job as a SASH adviser is to know when to take it to someone who has more authority, training and resources than you do, so you certainly don't try to 'play therapist,'" Small says. "It's not like someone's going to go to their SASH adviser and the SASH [adviser] is going to solve all their problems...