We are all facing enormous challenges these days due to the coronavirus pandemic, quarantine, social distancing, and the economic effects of this major disruption to our lives. Some groups -- particularly lower-income Black and Brown persons, are suffering more than others. My colleague Dr. Wonyoung Cho of Lewis and Clark University and I co-authored an article in the current Special Issue of the journal Family Process in which we suggest that there are four categories of c

I’ve been a psychotherapist for over 30 years, and over those years I’ve worked with hundreds of wonderful women that find themselves in problematic relationships. I’ve collected a set of “danger signs” from the women I’ve seen that they’ve encountered when men really start to show who they are and how they will treat them. Sometimes, these danger signs are there from the beginning, but women overlook them because the men’s other, positive characteristics. Sometimes, women w