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Changes in How ADHD Meds are Prescribed at University & College
If you were hoping to get some medications prescribed for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) while in college or at university, you might be in for a rude surprise.
Colleges and university are cutting back on their involvement with ADHD, primarily due to abuse of the psychiatric medications — stimulants like Ritalin — prescribed to treat the disorder. Students — whether they are malingering the symptoms or actually have it — are prescribed a drug to treat ADHD (sometimes from different providers in different states), then sell a few (or all the) pills on the side. Profit!
Now universit...
Source: World of Psychology - May 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: ADHD and ADD College Disorders General Medications Policy and Advocacy Psychiatry Students Treatment Abuse Problem Adhd Meds Adhd Treatment Alan Schwarz Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Source Type: blogs
Is There a Right Way to Feed a Baby?
This morning I opened “The Four Month Visit” email sitting in my mailbox from my pediatrician’s practice. Under the topics for the approaching visit is “solid foods.”
The blurb reads “Solid food: Since Brandon looks hungrily at your food and tries to grab it, how about starting him on a little solid food? Don’t waste your time with cereals, since they offer little added nutritional value. Read more about when, how and why to start your child on solid foods.”
Don’t waste my time with cereals? I spoke with some friends whose doctors told them to start with rice cereal. My mother claims my preem...
Source: World of Psychology - October 13, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Jill Ceder, MSW, JD Tags: Children and Teens Disorders Eating Disorders Family General Habits Health-related Parenting Research Alan Greene Breakfast cereal Childhood Obesity food little solid food Nutrition Nutritionist Rice rice cereal starter Source Type: blogs
Is ADHD Overdiagnosed? Yes & No
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: April 2, 2013
A headline on Monday about the marked rise in diagnoses of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, described incorrectly the disorder that saw the increase. It is A.D.H.D. — not hyperactivity, which is present in only a portion of A.D.H.D. cases. The article also misidentified the organization that plans to change the definition of A.D.H.D. to allow more people to receive the diagnosis and treatment. It is the American Psychiatric Association, not the Am...
Source: World of Psychology - November 21, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: ADHD and ADD Children and Teens Disorders General Mental Health and Wellness Minding the Media Parenting Policy and Advocacy Treatment Alan Schwarz American Psychiatric Association attention Attention Deficit Attention Deficit Hy Source Type: blogs
Mindfulness and Sleep: Advice from Experts
This article is Part Three in a series, click to read Part One and Part Two.
I am just a little bit obsessed with sleep. My own, my children’s and… well… even yours really. Of course I am not alone in that. There are many books, websites, organizations and careers built around getting better sleep!
When you are a new mother, the level of sleep deprivation you experience can be a shock, unlike any kind of tiredness you have ever felt before. It can undermine your health and well-being very quickly, and clearly has flow on effects on your enjoyment of motherhood and your child’s well-being.
I used to joke af...
Source: World of Psychology - December 4, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kellie Edwards Tags: Interview LifeHelper Mindfulness Psychology Sleep Stress Behavioral Sleep Medicine moodiness Sleep Deprivation Source Type: blogs
Resolutions, Exercise Trackers & Operant Conditioning
“… To get in shape” is one of the most common New Year’s resolutions, and arguably the one most often broken.
For some, the solution may lie in the new wave of exercise trackers. Wristbands and other gadgets rely on operant conditioning — the potential for feedback from the environment to affect desired (or undesired) behavior.
Depending on the gadget, trackers provide can provide personalized information about information including: the number of steps taken per day (which is then converted into miles traversed or calories burned); total calories consumed; and the length and depth of nightly sleep. Some...
Source: World of Psychology - January 23, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Traci Stein, PhD, MPH Tags: Brain and Behavior General Habits Self-Help Technology Caloric Intake Calories Diary Dime Store Exercise 2 Exercise Logs Food Diaries Gadget Gadgets New Wave New Year Notebooks Old School Operant Conditioning Paper Lo Source Type: blogs
10 Ways to Overcome Creativity’s No.1 Crusher
“The worst enemy of creativity is self-doubt,” wrote Sylvia Plath in her journal. And she couldn’t have been more accurate.
Self-doubt can persuade us to stop creating or keep us from sending our work out into the world. It can be so influential that it colors how we see ourselves, ensuring we don’t pick up a pen, paintbrush, camera or other tool for decades.
“Self-doubt paralyzed me for 25 years,” said Meghan Davidson, Ph.D, a psychologist, professor and researcher at the University of Nebraska. When Davidson was eight years old, her art teacher wrote in her report card that she had “no artistic abi...
Source: World of Psychology - March 3, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Creativity General Mental Health and Wellness Motivation and Inspiration Self-Help 100 Paintings Art Teacher Artful Blogging Artistic Ability Brevity Carla Creativity Book Crusher Health Crisis Human Nature Illustrator Impo Source Type: blogs
Stressed & Unhappy Women: Are You One?
It’s a hard time to be a woman these days. We bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan, and feel unappreciated wherever we go, much less the sexy w-o-m-a-n in the Enjoli ad.
According to a new survey from the American Psychological Association, women report higher levels of stress at work than men. Two-thirds of the 1,500 women surveyed said they have no opportunity to advance; half reported feeling unappreciated; and half felt as though they were underpaid.
In general, one-third of employed women felt chronic stress due to work.
Findings from a nine-year study on women’s stress was also discussed in the Journal ...
Source: World of Psychology - July 6, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Brain and Behavior Friends General Marriage and Divorce Mental Health and Wellness Relationships Research Self-Esteem Stress Women's Issues American Psychological Association Antidotes Burnout Chronic Stress Female Gender Fin Source Type: blogs
Interventions That Really Work for College Drinking
When a student heads off to college, friends, family members and loved ones hope that they are prepared both emotionally and academically for transitions and the independence that comes with college life. But for some students, drinking problems emerge with potentially serious consequences for a student’s academics, relationships and mental and physical health.
Colleges have long struggled to identify who is most at risk for developing drinking problems and which interventions best treat problems once they emerge.
With more than 1,825 college student deaths from alcohol-related accidents, according to a 2009 study in ...
Source: World of Psychology - October 27, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christy Matta, MA Tags: Addiction Alcoholism College Disorders Friends General Habits Health-related Mental Health and Wellness Personality Psychology Recovery Research Self-Esteem Self-Help Students Substance Abuse Treatment assault BASICS Source Type: blogs
Stats Can Lie: Don’t Let Divorce Statistics Dictate Your Fate
I’ll bet you’ve heard at least one of these statistics about divorce, such as 50 percent of all marriages end in divorce and that more than 60 percent of second marriages end in divorce.
Every time I read stats like these divorce statistics, I’m reminded of a grad school buddy of mine, Cheng Ling. When I joined the research group, Cheng was one of the senior grad students. He’d been in the group for a couple of years and had a reputation for being a comedian.
One day after I’d been a part of the group for about a year, he walked into my office and asked what I was doing. I told him I was work...
Source: World of Psychology - November 20, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: YourTango Experts Tags: General Marriage and Divorce Relationships YourTango Cdc Cheng Ling Divorce Statistics divorcing Family Monogamy official Partner statistics lie stats United States Source Type: blogs
Best of Our Blogs: December 13, 2013
I used to have a life coach and whenever I would unsuccessfully attempt to muster sympathy for an unsympathetic friend or relative, she would challenge me to rethink my perspective. In other words, she called me on my victim playing. This happened particularly during the holiday season when love, parties and gift giving were all squished into a month long of forced happiness and joy.
She would always tell me the same thing. You can’t keep going to the fish market to get chicken. Meaning I had to stop trying to get support from the unsupportive person and compassion from the un-compassionate. To continue to do so was ...
Source: World of Psychology - December 13, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Brandi-Ann Uyemura, M.A. Tags: Best of Our Blogs Addiction Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Chronic Pain Compulsive Shopping Creativity Distraction exercise benefits Mindfulness & Psychotherapy Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Retail therapy Suffering Source Type: blogs
Learn to Break the Cycle of Codependent Relationships
This article courtesy of Tiny Buddha.
Source: World of Psychology - August 12, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Staff Tags: Publishers Relationships Tiny Buddha abuse Anger anxiety approval balance behaviors Bored Codependent Codependent Relationships Confirmation Control controlling Courage Depressed Emotions empty Fear Feelings guilt Source Type: blogs
Optimal Performance In College: The New Tools
While the excitement of returning to (or beginning) college can hold the promise of many transformational and wonderful opportunities — it can also be a time filled with new stressors. Recent studies show that increased academic demands, changes in sleep and eating patterns, reduced family contact, and financial concerns can challenge even the most capable students. In fact, nearly 80 percent of students in college report having daily stress, and about 25 percent have said this has had an impact on academic performance. Daily stressors can increase depression, anxiety, and other mental health concerns that can hold l...
Source: World of Psychology - September 18, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Daniel Tomasulo, Ph.D. Tags: ADHD and ADD Anxiety and Panic Books Children and Teens College Depression General Memory and Perception Proof Positive Research Stress Student Therapist Students Success & Achievement Academic Achievement Adolescence Atten Source Type: blogs
Can You Prevent Relapse with Mindful Meditation?
Mindfulness meditation teaches people how to accept suffering as a normal, cohesive experience, and then move on from it.
Relapse has always been a harsh reality of addiction, but as the opioid black market fills with powerful synthetics, relapse on heroin and similar drugs grows increasingly dangerous. Fatal overdoses nearly doubled between 2015 and 2016 — the majority of which are attributed to opioid-based drugs.
We are bombarded daily with news headlines — some factual, some fictitious — announcing the newest therapy, or the latest hysteria-provoking scare (does death by fentanyl dust at the grocery s...
Source: World of Psychology - March 25, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Staff Tags: Addiction Alcoholism Disorders Mindfulness Publishers Recovery Substance Abuse The Fix Mindfulness Meditation Relapse Source Type: blogs
30 Healing Quotes on Self-Forgiveness
Just as mantras are helpful for me to process emotions, so are quotes. I often turn to them for wisdom and inspiration. The following sound bytes have been especially helpful in trying to learn how to forgive myself.
Like most people I know, I judge my own indiscretions with a different standard than those of others. While I can often separate the kindness of a loved one from the wrong she did, I make no such distinction for myself. I become my mistake.
The words of the following writers, philosophers, psychologists, and theologians encourage a gentler, kinder perspective that fosters healing. Their sage sayings prompt me ...
Source: World of Psychology - February 3, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Inspiration & Hope Mental Health and Wellness Motivation and Inspiration Perfectionism Self-Esteem Self-Help Spirituality Forgiveness Inspirational Quotes self-compassion Source Type: blogs
Dispositional Mindfulness: Noticing What You Notice
“Only this moment is life.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
Many forms therapy and spiritual practice speak of mindfulness. Dispositional mindfulness (sometimes known as trait mindfulness) is a type of consciousness that has only recently been given serious research considerations.
It is defined as a keen awareness and attention to our thoughts and feelings in the present moment, and the research shows that the ability to engage in this prime intention has many physical, psychological, and cognitive benefits.
Mindfulness meditation is different. It has taken the Buddhist practice of mindfulness and introduced it to the wester...
Source: World of Psychology - February 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Daniel Tomasulo, Ph.D. Tags: Mindfulness Proof Positive Dispositional Mindfulness nonjudgment Present Moment Relaxation Source Type: blogs
