Ορέστης Κασινόπουλος PhD, Κλινικός Ψυχολόγος / Οrestis Kasinopoulos PhD

10/10/2024

What does sometimes "change" in therapy look like?

Small steps upward.
An easier day, an unexpected laugh.
A mirror that doesn't matter anymore.

18/07/2024

We often ask ourselves:

"Am I enough? " or "Have I done enough?"

But the question should be:

"Who's asking if I am enough?"

12/07/2024

Emotions are tunnels. If you get all the way through them, you get to the light at the end.
Exhaustion happens when we get stuck in an emotion.

26/06/2024

Deer parents, Do NOT use shame as a tool to parent your children.

{Shame} It is the fear of disconnection – the fear that something we've done or failed to do makes us unworthy of connection. The birth of trauma.

Shame thrives in secrecy, silence, and judgment, and it often leads to a sense of powerlessness and isolation..

Shame is not an effective tool for social injustice or parenting. It is a tool for oppression and humiliation.

Do not parent your children with shame. It is de-humanizing and it corrodes the belief that we can be and do better.

Do not say: "You are a bad kid / you are very stubborn / you are stupid, you are unworthy"

Bring them in close proximity. Target the behavior. Explain. Discreetly.

Easy? No...
Effectice and healthy in the longterm? Yes

07/06/2024

Suffering is not because of the pain we experience, but because of our refusal to accept the pain.

What creates the trauma, is not that something hurts.

But that we don't know how to be with that pain..

So we build all those defences against it.

We close our hurts..

We try and do too much to fix things..

We take on too much responsibility..
Or we deny responsibility all together.

We try to protect our selves from the hurt of it.

It's almost like a scar that forms around the wound.

The wound is very sensitive and painful if anybody touches it.

But the scar tissue is also very hard, it's not very flexible, it's very rigid.

So trauma is like a combination of a wound (you feel a lot of pain if someone touches it) or like a scar tissue (there is no feeling there, no flexibility).

Trauma is not what happened to us.

It's the wound that we sustained.

And that's a good thing.

Because it means it can be healed at any time.

Dr. Gabor Mate shares his personal journey of healing the trauma he experienced as an infant baby when his Jewish family was subject to N**i occupation in Hu...

04/03/2024

Ίσως ένα από τα πιο όμορφα και επικοδομητικά παραμυθάκια που έχουμε διαβάσει στην κόρη μας.

Ο τίτλος μιλάει από μόνος του.

Βοηθήστε τα παιδιά σας να αναγνωρίσουν και να έρθουν σε επαφή με το συναίσθημα τους.

Θα σας ευχαριστήσουν αργότερα, όταν ενηλικιωθούν.

Όταν θα γνωρίζουν πλέον τι συμβαίνει μέσα τους, και όλα δεν θα είναι ένα χάος που τρομοκρατεί.

Αφήστε λίγο στην άκρη τα κλασσικά παραμύθια, η Κοκκινοσκουφιτσα, η Σταχτοπούτα, η Χιονάτη, ο Αλαντίν που μιλάνε για πρίγκιπες σε άλογα και σε παλάτια.

Εξερευνήστε παραμύθια που έχουν να κάνουν με τον εσωτερικό κόσμο του παιδιού.

Ένα εργαλείο για να μπορούν να διαχειριστούν καλύτερα τα μεγάλα -ΜΕΓΆΛΑ συναισθήματα που θα συνεχίζουν να εμφανίζονται σε όλη τους τη ζωή.

30/01/2024

The latest paper from the Stay-On-Track project published in Journal of Health Psychology.

Medication adherence (MA) to recommended treatment is a multi-faceted problem and an ongoing challenge for healthcare providers (HCPs) to monitor.

This qualitative study with 10 HCPs in Cyprus aims to explore HCPs’ perceptions and strategies used on addressing medication non-adherence (MNA) in patients with chronic conditions. Two main themes emerged from the analysis reflecting the ways that HCPs described their reactions to MNA of their patients: (1) “Relying on information provision to improve MA” and (2) “Trying to understand patients’ perspective.” HCPs reported empathizing with patients and engaging in discussions to understand patients’ perspective and reasons for MNA, so as to explore alternative solutions.

Simultaneously, some HCPs reflected that the techniques used to improve MA are solely centered around information on medication and side-effects. HCPs experienced an internal conflict between providing patient-centered care versus using directive approaches to improve MA. Findings suggest how HCPs could thoroughly address patients’ individual barriers.

Medication adherence (MA) to recommended treatment is a multi-faceted problem and an ongoing challenge for healthcare providers (HCPs) to monitor. This qualitat...

26/01/2024

What is the SILENT Killer of relationships?

Conflict Avoidance.

That's right. Partners Keeping it to themselves. Their feelings, their vulnerability, their needs, keeping it all to themselves, thinking that this is healthier. Socially acceptable.

Worry more about couples that don't confront each other, than couples who do.

16/01/2024

Being a little witty in therapy can always come in handy.

Client: "I always feel like I have to be perfect, and it's stressing me out."

Therapist (irreverent): "Well, last time I checked, perfection is not a prerequisite for being human. I missed that memo too; did you get it?"

02/01/2024

14/12/2023

The world would be a better place if we all acted with a little bit more kindness to each other.
It costs nothing!

06/12/2023

" ~Grief~ is the price we pay, for having the courage to love "

Το πένθος είναι το "τίμημα" που πληρώνουμε όταν είχαμε το θάρρος να αγαπήσουμε πραγματικά έναν άνθρωπο.

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