Most, if not all, children display ritualistic or superstitious behavior at some point during their development. Around age 2, children often insist on elaborate bedtime rituals and can be very rigid about their eating and bath routines being done “just so”. Between the ages 3…
Have you made your New Year’s Resolutions yet? Are they to get fit? Eat healthier? Be happier with your body? If you’ve put “lose weight” on there, I want you to think carefully about that choice. A lot of teens will go into the New…
Some parents worry that they caused their child to develop an eating disorder. Current evidence does NOT support this view at all. Rather, eating disorders are complex mental illnesses with a multitude of contributing bio-psycho-social factors. For one, eating disorders are hereditary conditions that are…
Hello Traverse City! I’m Dr. Rebecca Swenson and I am a child psychologist. I am so excited to have recently opened my private practice at the Grand Traverse Commons. In this first blog post, I want to tell you a little bit about myself…
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