In my book Unhealthy Helping, I emphasize that well-intended intervention isn’t enough to effectively help others, and some forms of helping are subject to backfire. This is especially true when it ...

Zara* was pleased for her 16-year-old daughter when a school friendship evolved into the teenager’s first romance. The young couple’s courtship was carried out mostly online, with regular texts and ...

We tend to associate the word “abuse” with more extreme behaviors and actions. However, abuse occurs on a continuum and can take on different forms and morph and/or escalate over the course of the ...