MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'expressive'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:53:45 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3889125&cid=t_187028_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F08%2F20%2Fonline-support-groups-mood-gym-and-happiness-2%2F I’m just back from the American Psychological Association’s 118th Convention in San Diego this year. It’s the annual gathering of the tribes, where the latest in psychological research, education, and practice is shared. As the saying goes, if it’s August, therapists cannot be found. But options for connecting to a source of support extend beyond the consultation room. There is a powerful role to be played by support groups, online as well as face-to-face, and numerous self-help tools now employ both online and offline components. The presentation I attended the first day of the convention highlighted ongoing research and discussion ranging from support group participation to self-guided cognitive training in the Mood Gym, to positive psychology’s approach: “teaching happiness.... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3889125 Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:30:42 +0100 3889125 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3746807&cid=t_187028_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F07%2F12%2Ffeeling-low-or-down-online-research-study%2F This study is conducted entirely online. It will involve you either joining an online support group or completing an expressive writing activity (minimum 5 minutes every two weeks) as well as filling in questionnaires about how you are feeling. Psych Central has no direct affiliation or connection with this study. We do not get anything if you sign up for this research (other than the hope that the researchers will prove or disprove their hypotheses). If this might be of interest to you, you can learn more about the study and enroll on their website. (Source: World of Psychology) World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3746807 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:39:23 +0100 3746807 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2662611&cid=t_187028_133_f&fid=35129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhitterer-autism.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F08%2Fonwards-and-upwards.html Conversation can be a little stilted around here despite all the speech therapy, practice and encouragement. Whilst we’re lucky that their receptive language, what they understand, is so much better than their expressive language, what they are able to articulate, it still doesn’t come easy. The latest campaign regarding table manners and prepositions flounders, primarily because by dinner time my ability to make things fun is a bit feeble. On the other hand the reading campaign is an undoubted success. Although they prefer cartoon strips given a choice, it’s a choice that’s just fine by me. That said the new trend is most disconcerting. The new trend consists of expressing emotions verbally, straight from the cartoons. Things like ‘zoinks!’ for I’ve just had a bright idea, ... Whitterer on Autism blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2662611 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 06:23:00 +0100 2662611 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1798232&cid=t_187028_133_f&fid=35129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhitterer-autism.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F09%2Fwordless-special-exposure-wednesday_16.html Flagrant product promotion!Many people have trouble finding, retrieving and verbalizing their worms, or rather words. Often children know the meaning of a great many words but lack the ability to express themselves. 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Whitterer on Autism blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1798232 Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:48:00 +0100 1798232 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1788990&cid=t_187028_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F09%2F13%2Flaw-psychology-morality-abstract%2F Kenworthey Bilz and Janice Nadler have posted their manuscript “Law, Psychology & Morality.” (forthcoming in Moral Cognition and Decision Making (D. Medin, L. Skitka, C. W. Bauman, & D. Bartels, eds., Academic Press, 2009)) on SSRN.  Here’s the abstract. * * * In a democratic society, law is an important means to express, manipulate, and enforce moral codes. Demonstrating empirically that law can achieve moral goals is difficult. Nevertheless, public interest groups spend considerable energy and resources to change the law with the goal of changing not only morally-laden behaviors, but also morally-laden cognitions and emotions. Additionally, even when there is little reason to believe that a change in law will lead to changes in behavior or attitudes, groups see... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1788990 Sat, 13 Sep 2008 04:01:39 +0100 1788990 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1773258&cid=t_187028_133_f&fid=35129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhitterer-autism.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F09%2Fgenealogy-brief-history.html Please scroll down for Magic Marker MondayA nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors. - William Ralph IngeFrom a few weeks ago [ish]I sit knitting a "poncho" for Nonna as a surprise birthday present, the perfect gift for someone enduring an 85 degree heat wave. My son lies at my feet examining carpet fibres.“What it is?”“What is what dear?”“Dat fing on yur finger?”“My wedding ring, this one?”“No…..dah lil one which is being……bented.”“Ah well that’s the McEwen seal, for a Scottish clan.” I shut my mouth, drop a stitch and hear the pot boiling over in the kitchen. I know that I have made several serious errors but I blunder on to pick up all the little hic-cups that I can manage. “A seal is not a swimmi... Whitterer on Autism blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1773258 Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:39:00 +0100 1773258 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1508292&cid=t_187028_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F06%2F09%2Fscientific-american-lets-stretch-research-to-make-it-sexy%2F You’d think that Scientific American would be the last publication on Earth where its editors would stretch an article or its headlines to suggest findings not actually found in the research. And if you’re a regular reader of World of Psychology, you’d know you’d be wrong. Scientific American recently published an article entitled, Blogging: It’s Good for You. In such an article, you’d expect an article to reference research on blogging, no? Well, not surprising, the article had no such reference. Which didn’t stop its editors from suggesting that “expressive writing” = blogging (even when that’s usually not the case). Blogging encompasses writing that is chronologically-based and links to other interesting stuff online. Expres... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1508292 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:16:51 +0100 1508292 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=530570&cid=t_187028_133_f&fid=35129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhitterer-autism.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F04%2Fpets-dont-eat-pets.html It’s more of a wish than a reality. These words are on the current linguistic loop, the latest "mantra." All of them say it frequently, but two of them say it in continuous periods of up to an hour, that would be stereo of course. Why are they saying it? Because at 5:10 a.m I was not at my best. If you find a cat hanging over the edge of the new, no expenses spared, aquarium, housing two, ‘free from the garden,’ lizards, a woman needs to protect that kind of financial investment. As that frantic furry paw worried the livestock, I have to admit that I tapped him, purely for attention seeking purposes, not to physically punish him. Although we have several water spray bottles around for the purpose of cat education, there’s never one handy when you need one. Corporal punishment has ... Whitterer on Autism blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=530570 Mon, 09 Apr 2007 00:14:00 +0100 530570 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=500180&cid=t_187028_133_f&fid=35129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhitterer-autism.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F03%2Fwarning-to-worlds-women.html Beware! Mother’s Day is coming. [already gone, in Europe where Mothering Sunday is linked to the liturgical calendar] Kindly women warn their significant others that the day approaches. Martyrs, prefer to remain silent and moan a lot, quietly with breathy sighs. Now you may be the parent of an autistic child, a mother or father perhaps? If you are, you may feel that such warnings have no relevance for you. Whilst you may well be correct and I certainly felt that I was a member of that contingent, last year, I found myself in the relevant group unexpectedly. In fact it is because Mother's Day is still 7 weeks away, the second Sunday in May, that forewarned is fore armed. Some people with fine motor challenges and other complications, need far longer to get their act together.Last year, I ... Whitterer on Autism blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=500180 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:41:00 +0100 500180