Becca Smith
Chief Clinical Officer @ BasePoint Academy
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- Highlights the complexity of gambling addiction and emphasizes the need for personalized treatment plans
- Suggests empowering activities to boost self-esteem and help establish healthy boundaries against guilt-tripping
- Notes that fear of stigma can cause individuals to underreport their symptoms
- Explains Kohlberg’s stages of moral development, which range from conventional reasoning to post-conventional reasoning
- Recommends habit stacking to improve work-related tasks like taking breaks and staying hydrated
- Suggests focusing on self-care and staying positive to move forward after a friendship loss
- Suggests that focusing on personal growth, relationships, and inner contentment can lead to true happiness and fulfillment, instead of solely pursuing external markers of success like wealth and status
- Notes that the Mandela effect can occur when memories blend two different events, people, or images, illustrating how our recollection of past events can be fallible
- Advises couples to work together to identify and fix the root of the issue, rather than blaming each other
- Notes that consistently shielding children from failure, criticism, and consequences can hinder the development of empathy and understanding of how their actions affect others
- Recommends a ‘No phones at the table’ policy to take control of our lives back from electronic devices
About BasePoint Academy
BasePoint Academy is a mental health treatment facility for teens and young adults aged 11-28, offering a variety of inpatient and outpatient programs across multiple locations in the Dallas Metroplex.