Education

A Mindful Guide for Family Mental Health

The workshop, A Mindful Guide for Family Mental Health, illustrates the prevalence of family mental health issues in the US and other countries. It guides us to learn how we can recognize issues at children’s early ages and identify relationship issues that could contribute to mental health stress factors. We will learn how issues in the larger communities can potentially mitigate or aggravate mental health problems.

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Teenager's Thinking, Emotional Development, and Parent-Child Relationships

Combined with research findings in the field of brain neuroscience, it explains the thinking and emotional development characteristics of teenagers, and how parents can better prepare their children for adolescence, create a good family environment and communication model, and thus promote teenagers in the process of raising children. Brain development and physical health, growing together with your children.

Theories of Psychological Development and Real-life Case Discussion

Dylan Xing is a Doctoral Candidate in Clinical Psychology at George Washington University. He has provided over 2000 hours of direct psychotherapy services to adults in various settings, including correctional facilities, community clinics, and university counseling centers. Dr. Xing is also an experienced researcher with an extensive academic working history and several publications on Nature, Professional Psychology, Group Dynamics, and the Journal of International Students. He is currently completing his pre-doctoral internship at Duke University's Counseling and Psychological Services. He also accepted the offer at Yale Health to provide clinical services as a post-doctoral resident for 2024-2025.

Self-Exploration: True Self and False Self

In the clinical settings, whether through my work with clients or consultations with my peers, I have frequently encountered the concept of the Inner Child. I saw our clients and many others’ interests, fascination, and curiosity about this part of themselves, which aligned with my academic interest in consciousness and unconsciousness. Psychotherapies for treating mental illness or improving psychological well-being are invariably based on the explicit or implicit understanding that there is an intrinsically existing ‘self’ or ‘I’ entity. In psychodynamic terms, we call this the development of observing ego.

Mind Matters: A Journey to Mental Wellbeing

Based on her personal experience and growth history, Yu Yu will share with you her growth in the two years she studied psychological counseling at Northwest University. Regarding personal, family, adolescent growth and other aspects, she uses her own story to start a journey of exploration about mental health with everyone.