Emotional invalidation can make you feel like expressing your needs is a relational luxury, not the non-negotiable it really ...

In childhood and adult relationships, love is shown with the five A's: attention, affection, appreciation, acceptance, and allowing.

Consider basic survival needs like water, air, food, and shelter. Meeting these physical needs means you can stay alive, but it takes more to give life meaning. You can’t see or touch things like ...

An ad hoc committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will be developed to examine the potential for integrating services addressing social needs and the social ...

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a model for understanding the motivations for human behavior. These include physiological needs, safety, love and belonging, esteem, and self-actualization. The ...

Special needs trusts can ensure financial security for loved ones with disabilities or functional needs. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who ...

Part of my practice in psychotherapy is working with individuals who are struggling with anxiety or depression caused by circumstances in their lives. We often work together for 8 to 12 weeks until ...

Abraham Maslow believed that human needs had a hierarchy. Survival needs were the base needs, while “loftier” goals were closer to the top. The idea is that survival needs must be satisfied as a ...

On day four of the second round of distance learning this fall, I saw something on my first-grade daughter’s Zoom meeting that broke my heart—both as a parent and as a school psychologist who supports ...