Being there for your kids - Exciting New form of Therapy

Episode Date: May 25, 2024

Every once in a while, something new comes along that is exciting, provides a critically different perspective, and just fills the bill. Such is the case with a new treatment strategy, Mentalligent Psychotherapy (MPT). Among the ABC's of therapy, MPT is the new kid on the block. Following is a brief introduction. Get more by looking into my new book, The Healing Journey: Overcoming Adversity on the Path to the Good Life, available at amazonbooks.com.  Blessings, Dr. Jon

Robinson and this is teachable moments big news today there's a new addition to the abcc's of therapy when you look at the ABCs of counseling and psychotherapy we clinicians have a whole alphabet from which to choose the newest latest form of therapy frequently goes by its initials rational emotive therapy RET cognitive behavioral therapy CBT evidence-based therapy EBT acceptance and commitment therapy ACT, eye movement and desensitization reprocessing, EMDR, dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, and on and on. Well, now there's a new kid on the block. Meet M.P.T. A.k.a. Mentaligent Psychotherapy. MPT takes the essence of mindfulness, positive psychology, and cognitive behavioral interventions,

and weaves them into an elegant healing journey for your patient. While each strategy has been around for a while, together and collectively they formed the art and science of MPT. My colleague, Dr. Kristen Lee at Northeastern University, published her new psychology of thinking, which she coined, intelligence. Combining the word mental and intelligence, Dr. Lee captured the whole brain in the process of behavior change. Our brain's software, the mental part, identifies our responses to life experiences, while its hardware, the intelligence, part is core functioning abilities. Put another way, intelligence identifies what you've got, while mental identifies what you do with what you've got, that is your interpretation of your

aggregate life experiences. Together, intelligence is a new psychology of thinking model that teaches ways to launch upward spirals through a process of unlearning and pivoting away from social conditioning and indoctrination that damage human progress. In my book, The Healing Journey, Overcure overcoming adversity in the path to the good life, I use the metaphor of soaring in a glider to introduce the journey of MPT. People come to see us when they are stuck. Their stuckness generates negative affect, principally a sense of hopelessness. It comes in various forms, but doesn't go away without concerted effort. When soaring in a glider, the goal is to find spiraling thermal air currents. When you do, you can ride that current spiraling, spiral.

upward for a long time, a wonderful five-century experience living in the moment. Stuckness is like spiraling downward uncontrollably, desperately trying not to crash. With MPT, we are not doctors trying to diagnose our patients and fix them from their illness. Rather, we are their guide, helping them find those upward spiral thermal air currents where they can revel and flourish. The stress of life and adversities we experience don't magically go away. Rather, with MPT, we help our clients use their stuckness as a launching point on their healing journey, focusing not so much on why they are stuck, but rather more on what they can do to get unstuck

and continue their upward spiraling. Mentaligence psychotherapy expands the theory of mental intelligence into the clinical practice and treatment strategies of MPT. Interested? The general public will want to buy the healing journey overcoming adversity on the path of the good life to get a sneak peek into effective therapy, while graduate students in behavioral health sciences and practicing clinicians will want to add MPT to their toolbox of practical interventions. Available at amazonbooks.com, search by name or book title. Blessings, Dr. John. If my comments stir questions for you, contact me. me through my website at www.orghumidsterefirmicids.com or email me at John Robinson 0.0 at bell south.net.

I'm Dr. Jonathan C. Robinson, licensed clinical psychologist and author of Teachable Moments, building blocks of Christian parenting, and now the healing journey, overcoming adversity on the path of the good life. And this has been Teachable Moments. Teachable Moments, Building Blocks of Christian Parenting, is available online at Amazon. on Books.com and in local and national bookstores. More on Dr. Robinson at t-M-C-P-I-N-C.com.