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Perspective Shift
[DISCLAIMER] Photo credit, fair use Take a look at the above-indicated picture. What do you see? Perhaps you think you’re looking at a...
Deric Hollings
Jul 20, 20246 min read
ABC with XYZ
[DISCLAIMER] Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is an active-directive form of cognitive behavior therapy that serves as the...
Deric Hollings
Jul 11, 20246 min read
Friend Dispute
[DISCLAIMER] Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is an active-directive form of cognitive behavior therapy that serves as the...
Deric Hollings
Jul 11, 20245 min read
Heuristics
[DISCLAIMER] According to Wikipedia: A heuristic ‘method of discovery’, or heuristic technique (problem solving, mental shortcut, rule of...
Deric Hollings
Jul 7, 20245 min read
Difference Between Confrontation and Disputation
[DISCLAIMER] In my personal and professional life, I practice Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) which is a form of cognitive...
Deric Hollings
Jul 1, 20247 min read
Common Enemy
[DISCLAIMER] There was a time that I used to see couples for behavioral health care, though I’ve since decided to take my practice into a...
Deric Hollings
Jun 21, 20246 min read
It's All Bad
[DISCLAIMER] During my senior year of high school, lyricist E-40 released the album In a Major Way that featured the track “It’s All Bad”...
Deric Hollings
Jun 20, 20244 min read
Logical Relation
[DISCLAIMER] Photo credit (edited), fair use Within my blog, I often use syllogisms as pedagogical tools to enhance the psychoeducational...
Deric Hollings
Jun 9, 202410 min read
What if in the Opposite Direction
[DISCLAIMER] What if I dedicate time to writing this blogpost and no one reads it? Worse yet, what if someone reads it and instead of...
Deric Hollings
Jun 7, 20248 min read
Open, Honest, and Vulnerable Communication
[DISCLAIMER] Throughout my youth, I encountered an oft-repeated stereotype about males (boys and men) regarding communication—a process...
Deric Hollings
May 17, 20245 min read
This, Too, Shall Pass
[DISCLAIMER] For many reasons, my late stepmother, “DT,” remains as the most influential figure in my life. She’s perhaps one of the...
Deric Hollings
May 14, 20245 min read
Tactically Strategic
[DISCLAIMER] I was on voluntary appellate leave with the Department of Defense from 2003 to 2007. Wanting to continue use of skills...
Deric Hollings
May 14, 20246 min read
MUSTur-Baby
[DISCLAIMER] During the final week of fifth grade, when attending Crawford Elementary School in Aurora, Colorado, students were allowed...
Deric Hollings
May 10, 20244 min read
Resilience
[DISCLAIMER] During Marine recruit training at Camp Pendleton, California, I recall having succinctly conceptualized the experience of...
Deric Hollings
May 8, 20247 min read
Belief in Knowing
[DISCLAIMER] One of my greatest challenges when practicing Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) with clients is getting people to...
Deric Hollings
May 5, 20247 min read
Why is this Tiger Here?
[ DISCLAIMER ] Photo credit , fair use According to one source , “The number of people killed in tiger attacks crossed the 100 mark in...
Deric Hollings
May 4, 20245 min read
When the Work Pays Off
[DISCLAIMER] Photo credit, fair use During graduate school for counseling I attended practicum hours at a Department of Veterans Affairs...
Deric Hollings
May 2, 20246 min read
Embrace the Suck
[DISCLAIMER] When stationed in Okinawa, Japan as a Marine in 1997, I learned that the abbreviation “MP” didn’t solely stand for “military...
Deric Hollings
Apr 29, 20246 min read
Eudaimonia
[ DISCLAIMER ] When the late psychologist Albert Ellis developed Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), he incorporated into this...
Deric Hollings
Apr 26, 202410 min read
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