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A Surprising Happiness Booster? Cleaning My Office
One of my favorite Secrets of Adulthood: Outer order contributes to inner calm. Clutter seems like a trivial matter, but I always find that I feel more serene and cheerful if my apartment and office aren’t too messy. Along those lines, I’ve learned from my happiness project to be wary whenever I have the urge to “treat” myself, because often my treats don’t make me happy in the long run. For instance, one of my “treats” is to let piles of papers, clothes, books, and dishes pile up–which ends up making me feel less happy. In fact, when I want to calm myself, or cheer myself up, I often take an hour and clea...
Source: World of Psychology - July 29, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Gretchen Rubin Tags: General Happiness Industrial and Workplace Self-Help Adulthood Business Behavior Clothes Books clutter Coffee Cups Containers Dishes Great Art Misery Piles Reading Notes Reminders Samuel Johnson Scratch Pad Stacks Sur Source Type: blogs

Doctors Petition for Limits on Painkillers - NYTimes.com
A group of doctors and public health officials urged the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday to curtail the overuse and abuse of prescription painkillers by changing labeling directions on how and when physicians should prescribe them.The request came in a so-called citizens petition sent Wednesday to the F.D.A. by some 35 physicians, including Dr. Thomas A. Farley, the commissioner of the Department of Health in New York City, and Dr. Nirav R. Shah, the commissioner of the New York State Department of Health.The F.D.A. rarely acts on the basis of such petitions, and it can take months or years fo...
Source: Psychology of Pain - July 29, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs

How I Create: Q&A With Author & Artist Christine Mason Miller
I’ve already had the honor of interviewing Christine Mason Miller, a writer and mixed-media artist, for several pieces for Psych Central. (See here and here.) I love her take on creativity along with how she lets creativity infuse all areas of her life. Mason Miller is the author of the recently published book Desire to Inspire: Using Creative Passion to Transform the World. She loves to travel, wander and explore, whether on her own or vicariously through others. Learn more about her work at www.christinemasonmiller.com. Below, Mason Miller offers more wise words on getting inspired. 1. Do you incorporate creativity-...
Source: World of Psychology - July 29, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Creativity General Happiness Interview Mental Health and Wellness Motivation and Inspiration Self-Help Addressing An Envelope Artistic Work Belief Creative Act Creative Activities Creative Muscles Creative Passion Creative Retr Source Type: blogs

Susan Fiske — Varieties of Dehumanization
Discussion about (In)Equality, The Interior Situational Reaction to Inequality, Tort Law’s Distributional Injustice Susan Fiske Discusses her Work on Different Types of Prejudices The Situation of Objectification Women’s Situational Bind You Shouldn’t Stereotype Stereotypes
Source: The Situationist - July 29, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Conflict Emotions Ideology Morality Situationist Contributors Video Source Type: blogs

Boosting New Memories Through Wakeful Resting
We live in a world where we are bombarded by new information and it crowds out recently acquired information. The process of consolidating memories takes a little time and this method might be just what we need to remember what is important. Alzheimer's Reading Room Michaela Dewar Too often our memory starts acting like a particularly porous sieve: all the important fragments that should be caught and preserved somehow just disappear. So armed with pencils and bolstered by caffeine, legions of adults, especially older adults, tackle crossword puzzles, acrostics, Sudoku and a host of other activities designed to str...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - July 29, 2012 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs

New York City’s Sugary Drink Ban Misguided, Stupid
New York City’s Board of Health is considering a ban on any sugary-laden drink greater than 16 ounces. The thinking behind this ban is simple — if people won’t control their own intake voluntarily, we — e.g., the government — will do it for them. Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed the ban in May, and since Bloomberg appoints the health board, you can imagine which way they’re going to vote on the issue. The ban is misguided for numerous reasons, but primarily because the ban is really only going to affect what cup sizes a consumer can purchase. Which is just plain stupid. If you still wan...
Source: World of Psychology - July 28, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M. Grohol, PsyD Tags: General Health-related Mental Health and Wellness Parenting Policy and Advocacy Psychology Absolutes Alcohol Board Of Health Breaking The Law Citizens Convenience Stores Drinks Fast Food Restaurants Food Drinks Health Board Source Type: blogs

Video: A Real Sufferer Cherry-Picks the Best Anxiety Management Techniques
Have you ever done a Google search for “anxiety management tips”? You will find a bewildering number of results. Over 4 million, in fact. (Protip: if your anxiety stems from information overload…well, searching for anxiety management techniques on this massive internet of ours might make things worse…right?) So…if you’re looking for effective anxiety management techniques, where should you start? What should you click on? Do you click on the very clinical-looking PDF document from a large university’s psychology department? Do you check out the tips on a local therapist’s web...
Source: World of Psychology - July 28, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Summer Beretsky Tags: Anxiety and Panic General Mental Health and Wellness Stress Treatment Video advice Anxiety Management Authenticity Coffee Shop Dare Dealing With Anxiety Delicio Followers Google Google Search Gossip Information Overload Source Type: blogs

The Cavemen Who Survived
I attended a local support group where the speaker was Joe Nelson, a local psychologist who used to blog with Diabetes Self Management. I’ve always liked Joe, and enjoyed the chance to hear him speak again. “A hunter attacking a brown bear.” (Photo credit: Wikipedia) He said something that really hit me. He talked about being ancestors of the cavemen who survived. The cavemen who survived were always on the lookout for the bad stuff. They were constantly preparing for, and anticipating, the worst case scenarios. Everyone else (the happy-go-lucky cavemen) got eaten! We’ve inherited all o...
Source: Scott's Diabetes Blog - July 27, 2012 Category: Diabetes Authors: Scott K. Johnson Tags: Blog Posts Disclosure Kerri Sparling Roche Social Media Summit Sweatabetes AADE Joe Nelson Cavemen Source Type: blogs

Find Stress Relief by Spotting Your Emotional Needs
Julie Hanks, LCSW, a therapist and blogger at Psych Central, works with many clients who are besieged by stress. What her clients typically discover is that they aren’t necessarily overwhelmed by stress, they’re overwhelmed by their emotions. “As [my clients] learn to unpack the anxiety, they discover that their worry, stress, and sense of impending doom is the not just anxiety, but the culmination of years of unprocessed emotions of all kinds,” said Hanks, who’s also a media contributor and private practice consultant. “Anxiety is often the label that clients have given to the experience of being emotional...
Source: World of Psychology - July 27, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Anxiety and Panic Disorders General Mental Health and Wellness Self-Help Stress Backrub blogger Book Deadline Book Revision Contributor Culmination Delegate Tasks Emotional Need Emotions Family Situation Four Tools Hanks Source Type: blogs

Best of Our Blogs: July 27, 2012
I attended a talk today by The Descendants author Kaui Hart Hemmings. She inspired us with information on the things everyone wanted to know, like what it’s really like to work with George Clooney. But she also talked about the process of writing. She said like anything else, writing takes practice, work and self-discipline. It’s just another thing that those who don’t write take for granted. And the same could be said about your mental health. Every morning you wake up alive, well and breathing. We’re given a fresh start to change things, an opportunity for a new beginning. But most of us don’...
Source: World of Psychology - July 27, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Brandi-Ann Uyemura, M.A. Tags: Best of Our Blogs Addi Addic Addictions Bipolar Bipolar Disorder Bipolar Disorders Chores Collaboration Comfort Zone Creative Ideas Creative Leaders Creative Mind Creativity Crystal Meth Crystal Methamphetamine Descendants Source Type: blogs

Feast
Tuck into our round-up of the latest psych and neuro news: All week, Channel 4 broadcast programmes aimed at combating the stigma of mental illness, as part of their 4 Goes Mad Season - available to watch again on 4oD. Esteemed psychologist George Miller has left the building. Among many achievements, Miller is perhaps best known for authoring the classic paper: "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information" (pdf). The new August issue of The Psychologist magazine is online and includes open access articles on the psychology of time. Also check out the edi...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - July 27, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christian Jarrett Source Type: blogs

Introducing A Counselor’s Observations
How to solve life’s problems is not always obvious. In fact, we often get “stuck” in life, mired down by our past, our experiences, and how we’ve always done things. While most of that works for most of us most of the time, it stops working when our life stops moving forward and instead goes into neutral, wheels spinning. That’s where counseling and psychotherapy come in. They can often help a person get un-stuck in life, or offer solutions to problems in a way we just hadn’t considered before. A therapist or counselor can’t provide a person with the answers to their problems. But they can provide the tools n...
Source: World of Psychology - July 26, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M. Grohol, PsyD Tags: General Psychotherapy 6 Years Australia Central Welcome Coping Skills Couns Counseling And Psychotherapy Counselling Counselor Diploma Experiences Honours Degree Kylie Madd Offer Solutions Psychological Research Psycholog Source Type: blogs

Why Society Doesn’t Change: The System Justification Bias
"Society's tendency is to maintain what has been. Rebellion is only an occasional reaction to suffering in human history: we have infinitely more instances of forbearance to exploitation, and submission to authority, than we have examples of revolt." (Zinn, 1968) Have you ever wondered why society hardly ever changes? I think most of us have. One answer is that humans have a mental bias towards maintaining the status quo. People think like this all the time. They tend to go with what they know rather than a new, unknown option. People feel safer with the established order in the face of potential change. That's partly why...
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - July 26, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

5 One-Minute Ways to Be More Mindful
Every minute counts. Every minute is an opportunity to experience joy, calm, peace or fun — no matter what you’re doing, no matter where you are. The key is to be mindful. “If there is a single secret to one-minute mindfulness, it is this: live the next sixty seconds as if your whole life depended on them, with a sense of urgency and excitement, or as if you had just arrived in a foreign land where there is nothing expected, hackneyed, or taken for granted,” writes author and psychotherapist Donald Altman, MA, LPC, in his book One Minute Mindfulness: 50 Simple Ways to Find Peace, Clarity, and New Possibilities...
Source: World of Psychology - July 26, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Books General Memory and Perception Mental Health and Wellness Mindfulness Self-Help Act Of Kindness Affirmation Clarity Compliment Creativity Deeper Sense Donald Altman Email Exercises Expectation Health And Wellbeing Ki Source Type: blogs

Psychology Behind Fear of Facial Disfigurement
A new study shows that humans fear of facial disfigurement might stem from natural fear of disease.Contributor: Brittney StewartPublished: Jul 26, 2012
Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content - July 26, 2012 Category: Other Conditions Source Type: blogs

Thoughts On a Cure
By Maryam Elarbi About a year and a half ago I attended a Children with Diabetes (CWD) conference in Marco Island, Florida, where there was a session held by someone from JDRF regarding the potential for a cure and what a cure might actually look like. Going into the session I didn't expect much. I've heard the research, and being cured has never been at the forefront of my mind. I feel that it would be much too exhausting to live my life with a "When am I going to be cured!" mentality. I prefer to live life with the understanding that everything happens for a reason and when the time is right, a cure will come. I could ...
Source: Diabetes Self-Management - July 26, 2012 Category: Diabetes Authors: Maryam Elarbi Source Type: blogs

How to Switch Off an Angry Person
Any time I see people having angry altercations, I perk up my ears and observe intently. I watch their displays, not in a sadistic or feeling superior kind of way, but fascinated with how it unfolds: “Will it work for them? Are they going to get what they want with this approach”? I have practically never seen it work, not during my observations in therapy or in personal life. Even on rare occasions where it seems to work in the moment, yielding some win-loss resolution, it never works sustainably. Peace can never be found on a shaky and fake foundation of emotional tyranny. As humorist Kin Hubbard said, “nobody ...
Source: World of Psychology - July 26, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Nadia Persun, PhD Tags: Anger General Mental Health and Wellness Psychology Relationships Self-Esteem Self-Help Stress Accusations Angry Person Bullies Cores Dealing With Difficult People Driving Force Ego Hatchet Human Anger Humorist Hunger Source Type: blogs

Jul 26, Sign The Forensic Psychology Guestbook
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Source: Forensic Psychology Blog - July 26, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs

Obama Emphasizes Situation: Romney Emphasizes Disposition
Related Situationist posts: The Situation of SuccessRandomness, Luck, Chance, and other Situational Forces Seeing Michael Phelps’s Gold Medal Situation Randomness, Luck, and other Situational Sources of Success and Failure The Situation of ‘Winners’ and ‘Losers’ Low-Effort Cognition and Political Ideology Jon Hanson on Law and Mind Sciences The Imagined Ideological Divide The Situation of Perceived Intentionality The Sound Situation of Beer Drinkers Ideology, Psychology, and Law – Available Now! The Situation of Ideology – Part I Ideology is Back Ideology Shaping Situation of Vice Versa The Great ...
Source: The Situationist - July 26, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Ideology Politics Video Obama Romney Source Type: blogs

Repression redux? It is possible to deliberately forget details from our past
Can we wipe material from our memories at will? Evidence that we can would provide some support for Freud's idea of repression, although for him it was mainly a non-conscious process. Such evidence could also stir up the debate about so-called "recovered memories" of long-forgotten abuse. On a positive note, if it could be shown that we can deliberately forget memories, then this might have useful therapeutic implications for helping people with unwanted memories. Before now, most research on the topic has followed what's known as a "think / no-think" paradigm, in which participants deliberately suppress their memory for ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - July 26, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christian Jarrett Source Type: blogs

Gordon West CME Leader and Advocate 1951-2012
The continuing medical education (CME) community lost one of its leaders and advocates this past week. Gordon West, PhD, President of the Society of Academic Continuing Medical Education (SACME) passed away, on July 17, 2012. Dr. West was 61, according to his obituary. For the last 12 years, West served as the Director of Continuing Education at the Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at Eisenhower. “We are one of the few CME educational providers catering to a multidisciplinary group of health care professionals from the medical, nursing, pharmacy, psychology, dental and social service fields,” West said.�...
Source: Policy and Medicine - July 26, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs

20 Tips for Stress Relief
Stressed Frog For most people in today’s world, stress is a fact of life. In recovery it is especially true. Although it is impossible to eliminate all stress from daily life, it is possible to control the effect that stress has on the body and the mind. The first step in managing stress is to become aware of events in your life that cause you stress. The causes of stress vary from person to person, so that what causes you stress may not cause stress for another person. Once you are aware of what causes you stress, the goal is to find ways to avoid or control these things. Relaxation techniques, when used consistently, c...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - July 25, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: 12 Step Fellowships Addictions Codependency Emotions Healthy Psychological Illness Sexuality Sobriety Spirituality Treatment relief stress talk Source Type: blogs

Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC)
URL: http://www.adec.org//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home#In 1976, a group of interested educators and clinicians organized the Forum for Death Education and Counseling. Over the years, the organization grew to become the Association for Death Education and Counseling® (ADEC). ADEC is the oldest interdisciplinary organization in the field of dying, death and bereavement. For: AnyoneTopics: Behaviour Management, Biological Psychology, Depression, Foundation Website, Life, Social PsychologyFeatures: Advertising, Articles, Books, Clinical Tools, Collaborative News, Commentary and Blogs, Community and Social Networking, Conferen...
Source: PsychSplash - July 25, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Psych Central Resource Editor Tags: Advertising Anyone Articles Behaviour Management Biological Psychology Books Clinical Tools Collaborative News Commentary and Blogs Community and Social Networking Conferences Depression Features For Foundation Website Inform Source Type: blogs

Anxious About Everything? 6 Ways to Cope with Anxiety
This guest article from YourTango was written by Dr. Tina Tessina. There is always something on TV to scare us. Hysterical articles in the media sell papers and attract eyeballs to websites, but usually exaggerate facts. If you listen without evaluating what you’re being told, it’s easy to become frightened. There’s a reason why I don’t usually waste time and energy on panic and drama. I see the negative results of panic every day. People get upset, they’re afraid of emotional consequences and they overreact, which can actually create the consequences they fear. Panic is an overreaction to a ...
Source: World of Psychology - July 25, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: YourTango Experts Tags: Anxiety and Panic Disorders General YourTango Competent Adult Decisions Early Childhood Emotional Consequences Exaggeration Eyeballs Family Drama Feelings Flight Mode Guest Article Hero New President Obama Overreaction Source Type: blogs

Article: Boosting New Memories With Wakeful Resting
Boosting New Memories With Wakeful Restinghttp://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/boosting-new-memories-with-wakeful-resting.htmlSent via Flipboard
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - July 25, 2012 Category: Neurologists Source Type: blogs

The Incubation Effect: How to Break Through a Mental Block
This study suggests, then, that unconscious processing is important in the incubation effect. It seems that for the group who knew they'd be doing the task again, their unconscious was working away in the background thinking up more solutions. This means that breaking through a mental block is about more than just taking a break. It helps to be motivated and to know that you will be returning to the problem. It also helps if you are a creative person because this study found that people who were naturally more creative benefited more from the break. At a time when we always seem to be in a hurry, we need reminding that tak...
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - July 25, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

CBT Spawning New Treatments for Adult Attention Deficit Disorder
Identifying and treating ADD and ADHD has long been harder in adults than children, in part because adults develop coping mechanisms which can mask their underlying symptoms. But while clinicians have been improving diagnosis of attention deficits in adults, they have also been expanding the range of effective treatments, with many studies appearing over just the last three years showing how cognitive-behavioral principles can help.Tags: ADHD, CBT, news and research
Source: Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life - July 25, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: General ADHD CBT news and research Source Type: blogs

Why You Should Turn Off the TV, Computer & Close the Blinds In Your Bedroom
For decades now, researchers have shown how important sleep is to a wide host of things in our lives — our mood, our memory, our concentration, and to help the body rejuvenate after a day of work and consciousness. Everybody knows that in order to be at our best, you need a good night’s sleep of between 7 and 8 hours (although the exact number varies). Any less, and it’s the equivalent of giving yourself a daily handicap — making your life harder than it has to be. (Any more and it also doesn’t really benefit you.) Now researchers have discovered that one of the things that may be contributin...
Source: World of Psychology - July 25, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M. Grohol, PsyD Tags: Brain and Behavior Depression General Mental Health and Wellness Psychology Research Sleep Artificial Lighting Behavioral Tests Blinds Central Computer Central News Central Tv Concentration Consciousness Counterparts Darken Source Type: blogs

K.G. v. Dudek (Florida Medicaid Injunction Order): ABA Proven Effective, Medically Necessary Treatment for Autism and Autism Spectrum Disorder
Following are some significant excerpts, including court summaries of expert evidence in the proceeding, and findings of the US District Court in Florida K.G. v. Dudek, on the status of ABA as a medically necessary, proven effective treatment for Autism and Autism Spectrum Disorder. The expert evidence as summarized, and the conclusions of the court, will of course have no effect on the views of anti-ABA activists like Michelle Dawson, Dr. Laurent Mottron and their followers. I hope though that Canadian public decision makers, particularly MP Mike Lake, who I have copied with this blog commentary and himself a ...
Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick - July 25, 2012 Category: Autism Authors: Autism Reality NB Source Type: blogs

Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: People like their bosses to have high emotional intelligence, even more than high IQ. Also: "participants favoured young, male bosses and old, female bosses over old, male bosses and young, female bosses." Using psychology to improve Powerpoint presentations (open access). "Sustained violent video game play was significantly related to steeper increases in adolescents' trajectory of aggressive behavior over time" Percepts to recollections: insights about memory functioning from single neuron recordings in the human brain (open access). Can people tell whether a...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - July 25, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christian Jarrett Source Type: blogs

New WIIIP 2.0 announced: Woodcock Interpretation and Instructional Interventions Software
Copyright 2012 Business Wire, Inc.Business WireJuly 23, 2012 Monday 2:00 PM GMTHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Launches Next-Generation Assessment SystemSolution is ideal for targeting specific skill deficits; expands to ELL studentsBOSTONGlobal education leader Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) today announced that its Riverside division has released the next generation of the Woodcock Johnson suite of assessment products - the Woodcock Interpretation and InstructionalInterventions Program(TM) (WIIIP) 2.0. The new system provides users with the tools necessary to make sound clinical and instructional decisions across many solutio...
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - July 24, 2012 Category: Neurologists Tags: WIIIP WJ III NU Source Type: blogs

Bruce Springsteen’s Depression
Bruce Springsteen suffered from depression, according to a new, lengthy article in the latest edition of The New Yorker. While previously he’s disclosed his on-again, off-again battle with depression to biographer and friend, Dave Marsh, this is the first time it’s been discussed at some length. Writer David Remnick interviews many Bruce Springsteen confidantes for the article, including his wife Patti Scialfa. In the article, we learn more about Springsteen’s battle with depression — even to the point of having some suicidal thoughts 30 years ago. It’s an interesting interview, but you need a...
Source: World of Psychology - July 24, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M. Grohol, PsyD Tags: Brain and Behavior Celebrities Depression Disorders General Policy and Advocacy Treatment Better Days Bruce Springsteen Dave Marsh David Remnick Drive Bys Friend Dave Guilt Trip Inner Conflicts Lengthy Article New Yorker Source Type: blogs

Jul 24, Sign The Forensic Psychology Guestbook
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Source: Forensic Psychology Blog - July 24, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs

Body Image: A story of sexual assault and bulimia
This blog post contains graphic descriptions that might be disturbing to some readers. Please note this before reading, and use discretion when sharing with others. By Tracey Weldon. When I was younger I was healthy. I liked my body. When I was thirteen I got involved with a guy five years older than I. I don’t want to detail exactly what happened in case anybody who reads this has had similar experiences and is triggered by it. But suffice to say while the physical abuse escalated quickly, the emotional and psychological abuse had begun long before I even noticed it. He made comments about my personality, my clothes, an...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - July 24, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Body Image Young Adults Abuse bulimia bulimia nervosa Eating disorder rape Source Type: blogs

Best of Our Blogs: July 24, 2012
Appearances are powerful. We read about a blogger we adore, for example, and believe that their spotless windows are always that way. We catch a friend’s Facebook update and their happy news could linger in our minds even as time fades. We watch movies and TV shows and get caught up in the lives of other people and in their perfect light, our life seems less than. This idea of perfection clouds our reality. It’s what makes living and happiness harder. We think that because our lives are not fairy tale perfect, we’re not worthy or we’re not doing something right. When in reality, all mirrors are slig...
Source: World of Psychology - July 24, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Brandi-Ann Uyemura, M.A. Tags: Best of Our Blogs Ails Belo Belov blogger Captain Kirk Clouds Cracks Equine Facebook Fairy Tale Famous People Happy News Hero Horses How To Have A Successful Relationship Insights Intimate Relationships Love Mindfulne Source Type: blogs

The Historical Situation of Situationism at Harvard Law
Tito Rendas has just posted his terrific paper, “Mind Sciences in the Harvard Law School Curriculum: Tracing the History, Proposing the Proliferation” on SSRN. We hope to post excerpts from the paper in time. Here’s the abstract. This paper explores the contours of the relationship between the mind sciences and the Harvard Law School curriculum, in particular, and the law curriculum more generally. Rather than using a conceptual definition of “mind sciences”, the paper will be based on an illustrative and fairly loose definition thereof. Any discipline that delves into the mechanisms that explain ...
Source: The Situationist - July 24, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Abstracts Behavioral Economics Education History Law Legal Theory Social Psychology Harvard Law School Law Curriculum Legal Education legal history mind sciences Source Type: blogs

Remembering Sally Ride
Photo courtesy of Sally Ride Science Sally Ride's death has hit me hard. And I know how weird it is for me to be writing a post like this on Cranky Fitness; this is not that kind of blog. So, kind readers, please forgive today's rather self-indulgent wallow in grief and know that normal whining the health and fitness aggravations will return soon. The thing with Sally Ride and why the loss feels so personal... She was one of the few role models I've ever welcomed and internalized into my own bizarre psychological landscape--a spooky but ultimately hopeful place in which conventional "heroes" and "celebrities" don...
Source: Cranky Fitness - July 24, 2012 Category: Eating Disorders Authors: Crabby McSlacker Source Type: blogs

Not in my gang: Children's and teenagers' reasons for excluding others
It's a fact of life that when kids form friendship groups some would-be members get left out. A lot of psychology research has focused on what it's like to be rejected. But now a new study has taken a more unusual approach, asking children and adolescents to recall times that they left someone out, and to explain their reasons for doing so. Holly Recchia and her team hope the findings could help design better interventions for reducing social exclusion. Eighty-four children were interviewed: 28 7-year-olds, 28 11-year-olds and 28 17-year-olds. A clear difference emerged with age. The younger children rarely described them...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - July 24, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christian Jarrett Source Type: blogs

7 Tips to Boost Your Energy Fast
A feeling of energy is a key to feeling happy. Studies show that when you feel energetic, you feel much better about yourself. On the other hand, when you feel exhausted, tasks that would ordinarily make you happy — like putting up holiday decorations, getting ready to go to a party, or planning a trip — make you feel overwhelmed and blue. When my energy feels at a low ebb, I try one of these techniques (well, first I drink something with caffeine in it, but if I feel like I need to take further steps, I try these strategies). 1. Exercise! Even a quick ten-minute walk will increase your energy and boost your...
Source: World of Psychology - July 23, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Gretchen Rubin Tags: General Happiness Health-related Motivation and Inspiration Self-Help Acting Adults animation Blasts Exercise Good Sleep Holiday Decorations Increase Energy Intense Level Introverts And Extroverts Jolt Listen Music Lively Source Type: blogs

10 Tips for Making Sense of Evil: The Colorado Theatre Shooting
The news that innocent people have been hurt and killed by the hand of a violent, angry man once again grabs the news. This time, in a movie theatre as the latest blockbuster, The Dark Knight Rises, opens. Trauma is an unexpected, derailing experience. For those who are in its direct line, it crushes the mind, body and soul. For those of us who witness it, we reel in waves of horror – helpless and saddened by it all. One of the ways to restore a sense of security after a mass tragedy is to understand why things like this happen, and then move into action mode to help yo...
Source: Dr. Deborah Serani - July 23, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs

Introducing Couples in Recovery
Every relationship needs help from time to time. But couples who are grappling with addiction issues — with alcohol or drugs — have special needs above beyond those in a regular, everyday relationship. The 12-step recovery process can bring couples closer together, but it’s often a challenging time for the health of the relationship, too. So we’re proud to introduce Couples in Recovery, a blog devoted to these kinds of issues, with Elaine Leadem, MSW, CSAT and John Leadem, MSW, MS, CSAT. Elaine is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Elaine holds a Master’s Degree in Soci...
Source: World of Psychology - July 23, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M. Grohol, PsyD Tags: Addiction General Relationships Addiction Issues Addiction Professionals Alcohol Central Welcome Certifications Clinical Social Worker Couples Csat Degree In Social Work Drugs Elaine Human Resources Administration Licensed Cl Source Type: blogs

Unipolar depression in adolescence is common worldwide but often unrecognized
Unipolar depressive disorder in adolescence is common worldwide but often unrecognised. The incidence, notably in girls, rises sharply after puberty and, by the end of adolescence, the 1 year prevalence rate exceeds 4%. The burden of depression is highest in low-income and middle-income countries. Depression is associated with morbidity, and heightens suicide risk. The strongest risk factors for depression in adolescents are: - family history of depression - exposure to psychosocial stress Factors that interact to increase risk through hormonal and perturbed neural pathways include: - inherited risks - developmental...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - July 23, 2012 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: Depression Psychiatry Psychology Pediatrics Source Type: blogs

Hair for Men? Preying on Men’s Insecurities
Most of the time, society doesn’t pay much attention to men’s insecurities. Where there are dozens of magazines devoted to women and helping them feel better (or worse, depending on how you look at it) about themselves, there are very few men’s magazines. What you’ll find men’s magazines is similar to what you find in magazines targeted to women — products or services to help them feel better about themselves. For women, that magic bullet is always about losing weight. For men, the magic bullet is a little bit different. It’s about losing their hair. Here’s what over $12,00...
Source: World of Psychology - July 23, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M. Grohol, PsyD Tags: Aging General Health-related Men's Issues Psychology Balding Guy Balding Head Beer Gut blog Bosley Bosley Hair Loss Frizzy Hair Garon Hair Loss Treatment Hair Restoration Head Of Hair Hindsight Losing Weight Magic Bulle Source Type: blogs

BBC Replicates Bargh’s Famous Priming Study
Related Situationist posts: John Bargh Responds John Bargh on Situational Behavioral Influences The Situation of Skin Money Priming Shared Human Experiences Hanson’s Chair Lecture on Situationism Body Image and Materialism Law, Competition, Self-Interest The Situation of Being Green Survival of the Cutest, Denial, The Situational Effects of Hand-Washing, Unclean Hands, Bargh and Baumeister and the Free Will Debate — Part I & Part II, Social Psychology and the Unconscious: The Automaticity of Higher Processes, Situation of Consumption, The Color of Sex Appeal, The Primitive Appeal of The Color Red...
Source: The Situationist - July 23, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Embodied Cognition Social Psychology Video Source Type: blogs

Blue Monday does not exist
The weekend is over and a long slog of five days work awaits. No wonder most of us hate Mondays. But are we really at our most miserable at the start of the week, as the Blue Monday myth suggests? A new study conducted in the US claims not. Arthur Stone and his colleagues made use of data collected by Gallup in 2008. Over 340,000 US citizens were interviewed over the telephone during that year and one of the questions was about their mood the day before. They were asked to say "yes or no" whether they'd felt enjoyment or happiness for a lot of the day, and whether they'd felt worry, sadness, stress or anger for a lot of t...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - July 23, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christian Jarrett Source Type: blogs

The LITFL Review 068
This article is an editorial that will be published in the EMJ. It is a follow up to a post featured in It’s up to us… regarding the life and limb saving procedures that emergency doctors need to be able to perform, and how to prepare for them even though we may rarely or never have to do them. This has MUST READ written all over it!An inspiring demonstration of spirit — Karateka Fred Ettish plumbed the depths following his defeat in UFC2 with a host of calamities that would have crushed lesser men. He overcame them, this is his story.Upper GI bleeding guideline update — A look at the recent UK guidelines, ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 22, 2012 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Emergency Medicine Featured Health Intensive Care LITFL review blog Blogroll critical care LITFL R/V podcast Social Media Twitter Source Type: blogs

Neuropsychology Abstract of the Day: Alzheimer's Disease
Does pharmacological treatment of neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer's disease relieve caregiver burden?Drugs Aging. 2012 Mar 1;29(3):167-179Levy K, Lanctôt KL, Farber SB, Li A, Herrmann NAbstractCaregiving for patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with negative outcomes for the caregiver such as depression, anxiety, medical illness, poorer general health and mortality, which further translate into adverse outcomes for the patient. The burden experienced by caregivers of AD patients, both professional and informal, has been found to be positively related to the presence and severity of the patients' neu...
Source: BrainBlog - July 22, 2012 Category: Neurologists Source Type: blogs

Many Mentally Ill Americans Have Few Options
Despite the passage of the mental health parity act a few years ago, and the help that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has also brought, many Americans still fall through the cracks of our disjointed, disorganized public mental health care system. Unlike public health care, the public mental health system is a patchwork quilt of disparate systems that vary incredibly from state to state. They also rely on significant state funding — funding that’s usually the first to be cut when state budgets are tight. The U.S. is one of the most wealthy societies in the world who’s standard of living w...
Source: World of Psychology - July 22, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M. Grohol, PsyD Tags: Depression Disorders General Mental Health and Wellness Policy and Advocacy Affordable Care Doughman Early Retirement Few Options Health Care Provider Health Care System Health Parity Act Incurable Disease Lacking Health Insuranc Source Type: blogs