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Jeanine Connor Mbacp

Jeanine Connor Mbacp

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Pretty Privilege and the Body Positivity Myth

Pretty Privilege and the Body Positivity Myth

Does being pretty bestow privilege or trap girls in a myth?

14.09.2026 80

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The Search for Causation Comes from a Desire for Certainty

07.09.2026 70

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Sex, Death and Adolescence

How can Freud’s theories help us understand ordinary and not so ordinary adolescence?

01.09.2026 20

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Endings and Beginnings

We split off 'bad' feelings and attach them to endings to keep beginnings 'good.'

25.08.2026 60

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Reality and Other Adolescent Worlds

The eerie and upside down world of adolescence.

10.08.2026 70

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How Confidential Is Psychotherapy?

Therapists are ethically obliged to maintain confidentiality. But do they?

04.08.2026 70

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The Problem With Pushing Resilience

Personal Perspective: We need to stop telling the “snowflakes” to toughen up.

21.07.2026 70

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Old Enough to Know

How to have age-appropriate conversations on sex and death.

13.07.2026 70

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Attention Seeing vs. Seeking Attention

We need to heed adolescent attention seeking.

29.06.2026 40

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How to Avoid Pathologising Ordinary Emotion

We should encourage young people to feel their feelings and express their emotions.

22.06.2026 90

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What the Social Media Ban Really Means for Under-16s

Evidence and common sense suggest social-media bans won’t work.

17.06.2026 80

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Let’s Normalize Young People’s Gender and Sexual Fluidity

Personal Perspective: Fluidity is an ordinary part of adolescent development.

12.06.2026 70

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During Pride Month, "Rainbow Washing" Isn't Enough

Personal Perspective: Reflections on therapeutic allyship during Pride month.

05.06.2026 100

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No Place for Politics in Therapy?

Personal Perspective: Is it ethical—or possible—to keep politics out of the therapy room?

18.05.2026 70

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Modern Life Is Rubbish (Or Is It?)

Twenty-first century young adults are holding onto the metaphorical rails.

11.05.2026 70

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Jeanine connor mbacp