MedWorm: Psychology Top 20

Chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and related illnesses: a clinical model of assessment and intervention

Journal of Clinical Psychology — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100

A clinically informative behavioral literature on chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and fibromyalgia (FM) has emerged over the past decade. The purpose of this article is to (a) define these conditions and their less severe counterparts, i.e., unexplained chronic fatigue (UCF) and chronic widespread pain; (b) briefly review the behavioral theory and intervention literature on CFS and FM; and (c) describe a user-friendly clinical model of assessment and intervention for these illnesses. The assessments described will facilitate understanding of the somewhat unusual and puzzling somatic presentations that characterize these patients. Using an individualized cognitive-behavioral approach the mental health clinician can offer significant help to these often stigmatized and medically underserved p...

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Science Shows You Can Die of Boredom, Literally

Psychology Today Personality Center — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:31:12 +0100

Monthly magazines from Reader's Digest to Cosmopolitan are inundated with tips on how to sleep better, find happiness, and weave seriously sexy hair. Taking nothing away from being happy and blowing your romantic partner's mind on valentine's day, there are few things as valuable as staying alive.Sometimes we fail to take life and death seriously. Think back to those painful days of calculus class in high school. Like the sounds of a banshee ripping out its entrails, you and your classmates probably screamed the same screams heard year after year - "I'm so bored, I could die!" And yet, did your calculus teacher care? Did they offer a hug or show the slightest empathy? Probably not. And what about the desperate pleas of innocent children on long, monotonous car rides. All children want is a...

The Power of Play

Psychology Today — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100

Having fun is no trivial pursuit. (Source: Psychology Today)

Genetic influences on the dynamics of pain and affect in fibromyalgia.

Health Psychology — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100

Conclusions: Together, the findings offer researchers ample reason to further investigate the contribution of the catecholamine and opioid systems, and their associated genomic variants, to the still poorly understood experience of FM. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)

French Paradox—Solved

Psychology Today — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:00:00 +0100

How you eat is as important as what you eat (Source: Psychology Today)

The benefits of "Snowpocalypse"

Psychology Today Relationships Center — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:18:20 +0100

The second "snowpocalypse" that hit the East Coast last week spawned so much media racket that it seems bizarre to associate that storm in any way with silence.Yet once the strong winds died down and the tree branches stopped snapping, the blizzard did bring silence, or rather, a variety of quiet that we have lost contact with in our manic, noisy lives.I was not in New York when that city got blitzed, but friends there say that in the deep of the night, with the snow falling hard and while the plows were elsewhere, the city was as silent as they'd ever known it to be.And I remember, as a young boy, struggling down the middle of Madison Avenue on a Sunday morning when fourteen inches of snow had fallen on Manhattan. The avenue was an eiderdown of snow, as pure and white as the Yukon.It was ...

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Building a Better Self

Psychology Today — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:00:00 +0100

Foods can boost decision-making (Source: Psychology Today)

The New Traditional Family

Psychology Today — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:00:00 +0100

The one-child family is the fastest growing family unit in the US. (Source: Psychology Today)

The Five Year Ban

Psychology Today — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:00:00 +0100

One solution to battle overpopulation (Source: Psychology Today)

Stop Sitting on the Fence America!

Psychology Today — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:00:00 +0100

The search for a meaningful public option (Source: Psychology Today)

The Secret of Successful Scientists

Psychology Today — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100

Hint: It has to do with artful play. (Source: Psychology Today)

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Witch Hunt or Healthcare Debate?

Psychology Today — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:00:00 +0100

How paranoia harms the debate (Source: Psychology Today)

Winter Blues

Psychology Today — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:00:00 +0100

How to talk your way out of the winter doldrums (Source: Psychology Today)

War in Pieces

Psychology Today — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:00:00 +0100

Screenwriter Alessandro Camon on the casualties of war. (Source: Psychology Today)

Inglorious Brutality

Psychology Today — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:00:00 +0100

The morality behind media violence (Source: Psychology Today)

Family functioning among adolescents with bipolar disorder.

Journal of Family Psychology — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:30:04 +0100

This study examined the characteristics of families of adolescents with bipolar disorder during or shortly following a period of mood exacerbation, using measures of family conflict, cohesion, adaptability, and expressed emotion (EE). Demographic, diagnostic, and family functioning data were collected from 58 families (mean age = 14.48; 33 female, 25 male) before entering a randomized trial of family focused treatment. Compared to scale scores reported by healthy adolescents and their families, cohesion and adaptability were more impaired in families with an adolescent with bipolar disorder. Levels of conflict, while higher than normative scores reported by healthy families, were not significantly different from scores gathered from distressed, clinic-referred families. Parents rated high ...

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Pop and Prejudice

Psychology Today — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:00:00 +0100

How modern prejudice is depicted in pop culture (Source: Psychology Today)

How To Be A Leader

Psychology Today — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100

Aiming for the best in all areas of life (Source: Psychology Today)

Management Rewired

Psychology Today — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100

What neuroscience tells us about leadership (Source: Psychology Today)

Plight of the Little Emperors

Psychology Today — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100

Why China's only children are growing up depressed (Source: Psychology Today)