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Two New Blogs, Always Learning and The Y FactorEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I’m pleased to announce the introduction of two new blogs here in the Psych Central family. The first is from Leigh Pretnar Cousins, MS called Always Learning. Leigh is a private tutor and is studying in educational psychology. Although her blog will focus on the topic of educational psychology and learning, she believes these lessons are of value to all of us throughout life: Every day my work teaches me some lesson that holds, not only for kids, but for all of us. I can hardly wait to share these things with you. I’m excited to have this place to talk about learning and all its facets… Learning and school, le...
Source: World of Psychology - November 19, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Brain and Behavior General Mental Health and Wellness Psychology Relationships Technology bloggers Clinician Conscious Realization Cousins Educational Psychology Emotions Ex Boyfriends Facets Grandfathers Life Experiences M Source Type: blogs

Holiday Blues, With Some Shades of GreyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Meagan really wanted this Christmas to be “extra special” — not like last year, when the family dinner turned nasty and Uncle Fred left in a huff. But as Christmas approached, the shopping chores multiplied, and the savings account dwindled, Meagan became increasingly anxious and dejected. Paul, her husband, wasn’t of much help — he was preoccupied with his job search, after having been laid off two months ago. Meagan was left to deal with three school-age kids and a part-time “temp” job as a secretary. And all this, at a time Meagan strongly associated with her late mother, who always used to...
Source: World of Psychology - November 18, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Ronald Pies, M.D. Tags: Brain and Behavior Depression Disorders General Grief and Loss Health-related Stress Christmas Suicide Combined Stresses Family Dinner Financial Woes First Women Grey Areas Holiday Blues Holiday Chores Huff Internet Posting Source Type: blogs

2009 Army Suicides: Highest EverEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
While most of us will be spending Thanksgiving with our loved ones next week, there are already 140 Army families who will not be spending this year celebrating their time together. Instead, those families will be mourning the loss of one of their own, due to suicide. With 140 suicides already on the books amongst Army families, 2009 is going to the be a record-breaking year for the Army, but not in a way they would like anyone to notice. 2009 will mark the year that the Army has suffered the highest suicide rate ever. So what does the Army do? Does it recognize the significance of this number with a solemn, sincere statem...
Source: World of Psychology - November 18, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Brain and Behavior Depression General Health-related Industrial and Workplace Mental Health and Wellness Policy and Advocacy Army Families Army Suicides Chief Of Staff Child Care Combat Missions Connect The Dots Denial Due Resp Source Type: blogs

The Psychology of TerrorismEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Terrorism is not a particularly new problem — it’s been a part of the world since civilization first organized. Despite how old it is, what we know about terrorist motivations and psychology is fairly limited. There isn’t a whole lot of empirical, scientific research on this topic (although there is an abundance of theory and anecdotal reports). But luckily, psychologists are slowly changing that, according to an article in the American Psychological Association’s monthly magazine, Monitor on Psychology. One researcher, John Horgan PhD at Pennsylvania State University, found that people who are more...
Source: World of Psychology - November 17, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Brain and Behavior General Psychology Abundance American Psychological Association Anecdotal Reports Camaraderie Comrades First Victim Glamorous Lifestyle John Horgan Limited Motivations Pennsylvania State University Phd Poin Source Type: blogs

Reducing Marital Stress Through CommunicationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
One heavily researched area within psychology is couples’ and marital communication. How a couple chooses to communicate — especially during a conflict — affects all sorts of things in the relationship: stress, relationship health, intimacy, even each person’s health. As Gouin et al. (2009) note in a summary of our existing research on this issue: Individuals reporting lower marital satisfaction experienced more non-specific physical illness symptoms over a 4-year period than individuals with higher marital satisfaction. Among healthy women, lower marital satisfaction was also associated with a mor...
Source: World of Psychology - November 17, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Brain and Behavior General Health-related Psychology Relationships Research Stress Anxious Children Attachment Style Avoidant Cancers Cardiovascular Disease Conflict Resolution Congestive Heart Failure Coronary Event Gouin Source Type: blogs

The State of the American WomanEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Image by of Kris Timken/Corbis About a month ago, Time Magazine published the results of a landmark survey gauging where America stands on the battle of the sexes. The results show that women are much more powerful than they were 40 years ago. In the 60s, one-third of all workers were woman. Now half are. Almost 40 percent of women are the primary breadwinners or are contributing substantial income for the household budget. And according to a Mediamark Research & Intelligence survey, women make 75 percent of the buying decisions in the home. You know the telemarketer who asked for the decision-maker of the house? Appar...
Source: World of Psychology - November 16, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Brain and Behavior General Industrial and Workplace Men's Issues Mental Health and Wellness Parenting Personal Psychology Relationships Research Sexuality Stress Women's Issues Academic World American Woman Battle Of The Sexe Source Type: blogs

The Metamorphosis of This Alzheimer's Caregiver -- I WishEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Once I entered Alzheimer's world I did learn something fascinating -- my mother is full of feelings and emotion. I learned that I could connect with her....My name is Bob DeMaro, I am an Alzheimer's Caregiver. My mother Dorothy, now 93 years old, suffers from Alzheimer's disease. We live our life one day at at time. Bob DeMarco Alzheimer's Reading Room Editor This is not a lament. A lament is an expression of regret or grief. Honestly, I don't have any regrets when it comes to caring for my mother. However, I often wish. I wish I had known more about Alzheimer's when the diagnosis came in. I wish I knew what to do f...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - November 16, 2009 Category: Dementia Tags: caregiving alzheimer's life behavior.communication Source Type: blogs

Are We Racially Color Blind Yet?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study shows that these transference errors may be more likely in cross-race identifications. Ouch. That means that when it comes to eye-witness identification, whites are twice as likely to mis-identify a black person than a white person. Obviously, this sort of high error rate has significant ramifications for trials and the use of eye-witness accounts. With lower accuracy comes a higher likelihood of error and identifying someone as the perpetrator of a crime when, in fact, they were not. As the researchers noted, context is especially important. “When making an identification, witnesses must not only remembe...
Source: World of Psychology - November 16, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Brain and Behavior General Memory and Perception Mental Health and Wellness Policy and Advocacy Psychology Research Convincing Evidence Crimes Criminality Delve Demeanor Different Races Entry Level Positions Equal Footing Eye Source Type: blogs

First Impressions Count, Even OnlineEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We already know that first impressions can tell a lot about a person. You meet someone, you shake their hand, they smile, you smile back, you introduce yourself. Prior psychological research has suggested that even such a simple, basic interchange creates first impressions that are then difficult to change once made. But did you know that even a photo of you can create a first impression? New research discussed over at one of Newsweek’s blogs demonstrates how easily — and accurately — photos can convey information about our personalities. Simply by just looking at natural photos of other people, you can u...
Source: World of Psychology - November 13, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Brain and Behavior General Memory and Perception Psychology Technology 9 Out Of 10 Acquaintances Agreeableness blog Emotional Stability Facebook First Impression First Impressions Forthcoming Study Good Job Human Condition Source Type: blogs

Piggy Smarts!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
New in the world of pig cognition research, interesting results:Pigs Prove to Be Smart, if Not VainBy NATALIE ANGIERThe New York TimesPublished: November 10, 2009"Recent discoveries from the nascent study of pig cognition offered evidence that pigs were quick learners, slow to forget and similar to humans in many ways."Read the article (Source: BrainBlog)
Source: BrainBlog - November 10, 2009 Category: Neurologists Tags: neuropsychology behavior social comparative cognition pigs awareness Source Type: blogs

The Big 5 Model of PersonalityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
If you’ve taken a college psychology course or have any interest in personality, you’ve more than likely come across the term “Big Five” personality dimensions or personality traits. These have been gathered through the result of decades’ worth of psychological research into personality. While they don’t capture the idiosyncrasies of everyone’s personality, it is a theoretical framework in which to understand general components of our personality that seem to be the most important in our social and interpersonal interactions with others. Decades of research on personality has uncov...
Source: World of Psychology - November 10, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Jason Rentfrow, Ph.D Tags: Brain and Behavior General Mental Health and Wellness Personality Psychology Agreeableness Big 5 Calmness Circular Model Circumplex Dimensions Of Personality Emotional Stability Facets Friendliness General Components Intellec Source Type: blogs

The Metamorphosis of This Alzheimer's Caregiver (Part Two)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
It is difficult to describe the range of emotions a caregiver might feel or experience in a single day. Imagine being happy and then sad, caring then angry, focused then frustrated -- an almost endless stream of feelings and emotions that conflict..... Bob DeMarco Alzheimer's Reading Room Editor The caregiver lives an anxiety filled life day-after-day. I doubt that many people outside "the front row" think about or consider this. My name is Bob DeMarco, I am an Alzheimer's caregiver. My mother Dorothy, now 93 years old, suffers from Alzheimer's disease. We live our life one day at a time. _____________________________...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - November 9, 2009 Category: Dementia Tags: behavior alzheimers metamorphosis caregiver Source Type: blogs

The Psychology of Hasan: The Ft. Hood ShooterEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I’ve held off in writing anything about the tragic Ft. Hood shooting, allowing some time for details to emerge and for emotions to settle. Random acts of violence always leave us all scratching our heads, but sometimes the violence seems so extreme, the act so irrational, one can’t help but turn and ask, “Why did he do it?” Major Nidal Malik Hasan is now apparently conscious and talking in his hospital bed, after being shot multiple times by Sgt. Kim Munley, a civilian police officer, who selflessly and heroically put herself in harm’s way in order to save countless of others’ lives. Mun...
Source: World of Psychology - November 9, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Brain and Behavior General Grief and Loss Mental Health and Wellness Minding the Media PTSD Policy and Advocacy Stress Acts Of Violence Aggressive Response Army Training Array Christian Science Monitor Civilian Police Coercion Source Type: blogs

Children of Gay ParentsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Parenting is a complex task, one that doesn’t lend itself to easy generalizations (which isn’t going to stop me from making some in this article). Virtually every parent believes they know what’s best for their own child, regardless if they’ve ever parented before, read a single parenting book, or talked to a single professional about parenting skills. The theory seems to be that if, Since I can have a child, I must have the innate skills to know how to raise that child. Except that theory isn’t exactly based in logic or what we know about parenting from research. What new parents of their fir...
Source: World of Psychology - November 9, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Brain and Behavior Children and Teens General Parenting Psychology First Time Parents Gay Fathers Gay Parenting Gay Parents Generalizations Good Parenting Lisa Belkin New Parents New York Times Nytimes Parenting Book Parent Source Type: blogs

[Video] Guide to cognitive behavioural therapyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Authoritative information from the British Medical Journal on CBT, a psychotherapy used to treat depression, anxiety, panic attacks and obsessive-compulsive disorder (Source: Latest entries from www.anxietyinsights.info)
Source: Latest entries from www.anxietyinsights.info - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Tags: cognitive behavior therapy Source Type: blogs

Bye Bye Asperger’s Syndrome?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Is the diagnosis of Asperger’s Syndrome — a mild form of autism mostly diagnosed in boys — heading the way of the dodo bird? A new article in the New York Times suggests that the new revision of the diagnostic manual — the DSM-V — is likely to do away with the diagnosis. How can you just delete an entire diagnosis and do away with a diagnostic label that hundreds of thousands of clinicians use everyday and millions identify with? If you’re the American Psychiatric Association, the folks behind the latest DSM revision, you can pretty much do anything you want. Before I get to Asperger...
Source: World of Psychology - November 5, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Autism Brain and Behavior Children and Teens Disorders General Health-related Mental Health and Wellness Parenting Policy and Advocacy Psychology American Psychiatric Association Asperger S Syndrome Asperger Syndrome Attention De Source Type: blogs

Group Therapy for Binge EatingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Binge eating disorder is characterized by a person having frequent episodes of eating what others would consider an abnormally large amount of food, while at the same time feeling out of control — the personal feels like they are unable to control what or how much is being eaten. According to government statistics, people with binge eating disorder are considered clinically obese, but plenty of people can engage in binge eating while maintaining an average or less-than-obese weight. Binge eating disorder probably affects 2 to 3 percent of all adults. People with a binge eating problem often experience: Eating much m...
Source: World of Psychology - November 4, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Brain and Behavior Disorders Eating Disorders General Health-related Mental Health and Wellness Research Self-Esteem Treatment 12 Months Abstinent Binge Eating Disorder CBT Control Group Different Kinds Disgust Doctoral Lev Source Type: blogs

Introducing Weightless: A Blog About Body ImageEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
You really can’t help but be overwhelmed by the amount of focus these days on how a person looks. The people who are most harmed by this shallowness are women, especially young adults, as so many of their role models are “perfect and thin.” How can you have a healthy body image when the media constantly bombards us with messages telling us that the only good body image is a thin one? So it is with great pleasure to bring you a new blog about just this very topic — body image, the skinny fad and learning how to attain freedom from the (weight) numbers and dieting. The blog is called Weightless: As ...
Source: World of Psychology - November 4, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Brain and Behavior Celebrities Children and Teens General Health-related Mental Health and Wellness Minding the Media Psychology Self-Esteem Stress Women's Issues blogger Body Image Cinderella Clinical Psychology Consumers Source Type: blogs

Abstract: Cognitive behavioral analysis system of psychotherapy and brief supportive psychotherapy for augmentation of antidepressant nonresponse in chronic depressionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: Although 37.5% of the participants experienced partial response or remitted in phase 2, neither form of adjunctive psychotherapy significantly improved outcomes over that of a flexible, individualized pharmacotherapy regimen alone. A longitudinal assessment of later-emerging benefits is ongoing. Source... © 2009 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved. (Source: Latest entries from www.anxietyinsights.info)
Source: Latest entries from www.anxietyinsights.info - November 4, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Anxiety Insights Tags: antidepressants clinical depression cognitive behavior therapy Source Type: blogs

Do You Have To Like Your Doctor In A Life of Chronic Pain?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
If there is one area of life those of us with chronic disease or daily pain know all about, it’s doctors. Some of us have the benefit of experience from a background in medicine. For others, you just get one whale of an education by going from doctor to doctor. How important is it, in your opinion, to like the doctor who treats you? We often elect our politicians based on their affability, their charm, their ability to give a crowd stirring speech. In my career as a nurse I’ve met many doctors who would have made interesting politicians, however effective or ineffective they would be in the follow through. In fact, the...
Source: Life with Chronic Pain - November 3, 2009 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: Chronic pain Chronic pain community Chronic pain treatment Uncategorized bedside manner blog career chronic disease compassion daily pain doctors health housecalls inappropriate behavior life with chronic pain nurses online Source Type: blogs

The Fear of Relapse: 5 Cognitive ToolsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A reader recently wrote to me about her overwhelming fear of relapse. She said, “I’m struggling now with it, obsessing over it, and I’m so, so scared. Do I want to crawl into the hole? I fear that. But I can’t. I can’t.” First of all, thank you for being honest. Because so many of us know exactly how you feel. I’m there a lot of the time myself. Less than I was the two years following my hospitalizations, but there too much of the time. Doctor Smith would continually remind me during those first fragile years after my big breakdown that a slight setback in my recovery didn’t ...
Source: World of Psychology - November 3, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Anxiety and Panic Bipolar Brain and Behavior Depression General Mental Health and Wellness On the Couch Psychotherapy Treatment Black Hole Cognitive Tools Contrary Depressive Episode Doctor Smith Dow Hiccups Ice Cream Jot Source Type: blogs

[UK] Positive results from improving access to psychotherapyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
British Psychological Society A study of an Improving Access to Psychological Therapies program has found it had significant clinical results for depression and anxiety sufferers. The results are published in the British Journal of Clinical Psychology. The study sought to investigate the real life effectiveness of an Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) program in a group of patients referred for treatment for depression and/or anxiety under Doncaster Primary Care Trust. A total of 3,994 patients were referred for treatment during the 12 months from August 2006, and 2,795 went on to receive one or more appoin...
Source: Latest entries from www.anxietyinsights.info - November 3, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Anxiety Insights Tags: cognitive behavior therapy psychotherapy Source Type: blogs

Depression, Lifestyle and Processed FoodEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We know that people who are depressed don’t eat as well as people who don’t have depression. So not surprising to anyone, diet and what we eat remain linked to depression. But despite new research, we still don’t know which way the relationship goes — does diet cause depression, or do people with a certain lifestyle or with depression eat poor diets? They split the participants into two types of diet - those who ate a diet largely based on whole foods, which includes lots of fruit, vegetables and fish, and those who ate a mainly processed food diet, such as sweetened desserts, fried food, processed...
Source: World of Psychology - November 2, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Brain and Behavior Depression Disorders General Health-related Mental Health and Wellness Research Age Education Bbc Bbc Health Bbc News Cause Depression Chronic Diseases Dairy Products Desserts Diets Explanations Food Di Source Type: blogs

5 Ways to Tackle PerfectionismEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This week I have the pleasure of interviewing Michelle Russell, who writes the fantastic blog, “Practice Makes Imperfect.” Since we talk about perfectionism a lot on Beyond Blue — because it’s so related to depression — I thought she’d be a perfect guest to interrogate on this topic. Therese: What are five ways a person can tackle perfectionism? Michelle: Here they are … 1. Compare yourself to others. I know, this probably sounds surprising when the prevailing wisdom says not to. But we perfectionists need frequent reality checks. Think about whatever has you firing on all cylinde...
Source: World of Psychology - November 1, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Brain and Behavior Depression General Industrial and Workplace Mental Health and Wellness On the Couch Personal Personality Psychotherapy Relationships Self-Esteem Stress Treatment Women's Issues Best Effort Firing On All Cyl Source Type: blogs

Design Can Encourage Greater Self-DisclosureEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Every day, our behavior is directly influenced by a number of factors, some of which we may not even be consciously aware of. How things are designed is one of those factors. Psychology researchers call it fluency while web developers call it usability, but they’re both basically talking about the same thing — how well something is designed can directly impact how much people use it. And not only the degree to which they use it, but also the amount of self-disclosure a person makes while using it. Online researchers have repeatedly referred to the disinhibition effect of online behavior — people tend to ...
Source: World of Psychology - October 30, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Brain and Behavior General Health-related Memory and Perception Mental Health and Wellness Psychology Psychotherapy Relationships Research Technology 1111 Attributes Doi Exercises Facebook Fluency Good Listener Gossip H Source Type: blogs

Germs, collectivism and serotoninEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Culture-gene coevolution of individualism-collectivism and the serotonin transporter gene:Culture-gene coevolutionary theory posits that cultural values have evolved, are adaptive and influence the social and physical environments under which genetic selection operates. Here, we examined the association between cultural values of individualism-collectivism and allelic frequency of the serotonin transporter functional polymorphism (5-HTTLPR) as well as the role this culture-gene association may play in explaining global variability in prevalence of pathogens and affective disorders. We found evidence that collectivistic cul...
Source: Gene Expression - October 28, 2009 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Tags: Behavior Genetics Source Type: blogs

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Forum on the Future Impact of Neuroscience and Behavior ChangeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation just announced a new initiative of their Pioneer portfolio: “On November 11-12, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), working with the Monitor Institute, will welcome a small group of researchers, academics, physicians and industry leaders in the fields of neurotechnology, neurodevelopment and behavior change for a “Forum on the Future Impact of Neuroscience and Behavior Change.” The question: what could neuroscience innovation mean for the future of health and health care? This blog post contains the list of participants (honored to be one) and an excellent contextual o...
Source: SharpBrains - October 28, 2009 Category: Neurologists Authors: Alvaro Fernandez Tags: Brain Fitness Industry Cognitive Neuroscience Education & Lifelong Learning Health & Wellness behavior change innovation Monitor Institute neurodevelopment neuroscience innnovation Neurotechnology pioneer Robert-Wood-Johnson-Foundati Source Type: blogs

Patient Stabs Doctor, Shot Dead at Bipolar ClinicEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A patient being seen at the Massachusetts General Hospital’s Bipolar Clinic and Research Program attacked his physician today, stabbing her with a knife during a treatment session according to Boston Police. The incident occurred in an office building nearby the main Mass. General building, where the hospital leases space for the Bipolar Clinic: After at least one gunshot echoed on the fifth floor, two nurses from [a neighboring] office went to treat the patient, who had apparently been shot in the head by the security guard [...] “During the course of the stabbing incident, an off-duty security officer who wa...
Source: World of Psychology - October 27, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Bipolar Disorders General Policy and Advocacy 6 Years Attacker Bipolar Disorder Boston Globe Boston Police Criminal Behavior Criminal Incidents Criminality Duty Security Fifth Floor Gunshot Health Care Problems History Of V Source Type: blogs

Oprah: The 7 Year Old With SchizophreniaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In conclusion we would like to stress that, in our view, labelling a seven-year-old child as schizophrenic and subjecting her to powerful psychotropic medication and periodic hospitalisation is unlikely to help resolve her problems with voices. Indeed, the opposite is most probable: Jani will simply become more powerless when it comes to finding ways to cope with her voices. Because your well respected, award winning show reaches out to so many people, we are concerned that there will be many viewers who will be left with the impression that the kind of treatment Jani receives is the only one available. If this is the case...
Source: World of Psychology - October 27, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Brain and Behavior Children and Teens Disorders General Mental Health and Wellness Minding the Media Parenting Personality Schizophrenia Treatment Alternate Reality Dr Mark Entire Show Experien Imaginary Friends Jani Mental Source Type: blogs

5 Emotional Vampires and How to Combat ThemEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In the spirit of Halloween, I thought you’d all appreciate some vampire talk. In her new book, “Emotional Freedom,” UCLA psychiatrist Judith Orloff identifies five kinds of vampires that are lurking around and can zap our energy if we’re not careful. Here is an excerpt adapted from her book. Emotional vampires are lurking everywhere and wear many different disguises–from needy relatives to workplace bullies. Whether they do so intentionally or not, these people can make us feel overwhelmed, depressed, defensive, angry, and wiped out. Without the self-defense strategies to fend them off, victim...
Source: World of Psychology - October 27, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Brain and Behavior General Health-related Industrial and Workplace Mental Health and Wellness Personal Personality Relationships Self-Esteem Stress Women's Issues Admiration Bullet Tips Defense Strategies Disguises Emotional Source Type: blogs

Behavioral Economics: This Is Your Brain On MoneyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that with recession-related anxiety saturating the very air we breathe, we might be a bit slow to trust our financial decisions. For decades, economists did not find much merit in connecting psychology with finance. That changed when a young economics professor from the University of Chicago, Richard Thaler, introduced himself to two Israeli psychologists, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. Together they are credited with founding behavioral economics. Behavioral economics, and its close cousin, neuroeconomics, combines the disciplines of neuroscience, economics, and psychology t...
Source: World of Psychology - October 27, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Elvira G. Aletta, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety and Panic Brain and Behavior Depression General History of Psychology Men's Issues Stress Women's Issues Amos Tversky Behavioral Economics Credit Card Merchants Daniel Kahneman Economics And Psychology Economics Professor Source Type: blogs

Why Sleeping On It HelpsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We’re often told, “You should sleep on it” before you make an important decision. Why is that? How does “sleeping on it” help your decision-making process? Conventional wisdom suggests that by “sleeping on it,” we clear our minds and relieve ourselves of the immediacy (and accompanying stress) of making a decision. Sleep also helps organize our memories, process the information of the day, and solve problems. Such wisdom also suggests that conscious deliberation helps decision making in general. But new research (Dijksterhuis et al., 2009) suggests something else might also be at w...
Source: World of Psychology - October 26, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Brain and Behavior General Health-related Memory and Perception Mental Health and Wellness Psychology Research Stress Apartments Biases Bos Consciousness Contrary Conventional Wisdom Decision Making Process Decisions Delibe Source Type: blogs

Are the Media Addicted to Internet Addiction?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
As Dr. John Grohol has cogently argued, there are many reasons to be skeptical of “Internet Addiction” as a discrete and specific “disorder” or diagnosis. Yet I am impressed, and a bit dismayed, by all the attention this issue seems to garner in the popular media. I don’t intend any disrespect to the reporters and journalists who are trying to cover the topic, several of whom have graciously interviewed me. Some reporters are as skeptical as many of us in the mental health field, and a number have asked pertinent questions as to how real so-called Internet addiction is. I simply wish that deva...
Source: World of Psychology - October 26, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Ronald Pies, M.D. Tags: Brain and Behavior Disorders General Health-related Mental Health and Wellness Minding the Media Policy and Advocacy Technology Bad Habits Bipolar Bipolar Disorder Brain Chemistry Button Issues Central Nervous System Controvers Source Type: blogs

Optimism: Great Technology That Can Help YouEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Ever since I was discharged from the inpatient psychiatric program at Johns Hopkins, I have kept a mood journal where I daily record the amount of hours I sleep, my mood (rating it a fantastic and serene no. 1 to a frazzled, and I’m-headed-back-to-the-community-room no. 5), any foods that have triggered hyperactivity or irritability (such as a triple espresso and half of a chocolate-mousse pie), my anxiety level, any medication and vitamin/supplement changes, and a list of things I’m obsessing about: weight, job, friends, sisters, yada yada yada. My journal looks like my house: messy … dangerously messy. ...
Source: World of Psychology - October 25, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Anxiety and Panic Bipolar Brain and Behavior Depression Disorders General Health-related Industrial and Workplace Medications Mental Health and Wellness Personal Psychology Relationships Self-Esteem Sleep Stress Technology Source Type: blogs

Getting Help for Depression OnlineEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
As promised, this is one in a series of posts I’ll write about online interventions that help treat specific mental health concerns. In this post, I’ll talk about some of the depression programs available online. The Australian National University’s Centre for Mental Health Research is one of the unsung heroes in the development and research of programs to treat depression online, for both adults and teens. What they have done over the past decade is not exactly rocket science, and yet, surprisingly, most people have never heard of one of their free online programs. They’ve taken cognitive behaviora...
Source: World of Psychology - October 23, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Brain and Behavior Depression Disorders General Mental Health and Wellness Psychology Research Technology Treatment Behavioral Theories Clinical Evidence Clinical Research Depression Program Depression Symptoms Depression Treat Source Type: blogs

Amsterdam e-Mental Health Conference 2009Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Last week, I had the honor of attending and presenting at the first international e-Mental Health Summit for 2009, hosted by the venerable Trimbos Instituut (The Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction, similar to the U.S.’s NIMH), the University of Amsterdam, ISRII, and VU University of Amsterdam. This conference, the first international conference of its kind and scope, was research-focused, bringing together dozens upon dozens of researchers from around the world to meet, present, network and collaborate about work people are doing with computers and the Internet in mental health. I hope to highlight...
Source: World of Psychology - October 21, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Brain and Behavior General Mental Health and Wellness Psychology Psychotherapy Research Technology Treatment Applications Research Chronic Disease Disease Patient Dozens Upon Dozens Educational Resources Electronic Health Healt Source Type: blogs

9/11: All the PSA We NeededEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Right on the heels of my post the other day discussing the error in inviting terrorism reporting, here’s another video (and suspicious-activity-reporting Web site) produced by the Los Angeles Police Department. The production values in this video are hipper, and L.A. appears to have its share of actors willing to look concerned about terrorism. But really, the attacks of September 11, 2001 were all the Public Service Announcement we needed to encourage reporting of genuine suspicions. Asking amateurs for tips about terrorism will have many wasteful and harmful results, like racial and ethnic discrimination, angry ne...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 20, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jim Harper Tags: Foreign Policy and National Security Law and Civil Liberties 9/11 LAPD Los Angeles Police Department public service announcements suspicion suspicious behavior terrorism Source Type: blogs

Do Your Eyes Give You Away?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Can your eyes give away how much you’re thinking — even when you’re not consciously aware of your effort? According to new research, the answer is yes. Previous research has shown that people spend more physical effort in a demanding physical task when they could gain a high-value monetary reward, than when they could gain a low-value reward. But the intriguing finding from this research was that this behavior occurred even when the monetary reward was presented subliminally, below the threshold of our conscious awareness. In other words, a person would work harder for more money, even if they weren’...
Source: World of Psychology - October 20, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Brain and Behavior General Memory and Perception Psychology Relationships Amount Of Money Array Cognitive Effort Conscious Awareness Digit Numbers Dutch Researcher Earning Money Emotional Messages Eye Pupil Mental Effort Ment Source Type: blogs

What is a Nervous Breakdown?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A nervous breakdown refers to a mainstream and often-used term to generically describe someone who experiences a bout of mental illness that is so severe, it directly impacts their ability to function in everyday life. The specific mental illness can be anything — depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or something else. But the reference to a “nervous breakdown” usually refers to the fact that the person has basically stopped their daily routines — going to work, interacting with loved ones or friends, even just getting out of bed to eat or shower. A nervous breakdown can be seen as...
Source: World of Psychology - October 19, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Brain and Behavior General History of Psychology Mental Health and Wellness Stress Treatment Anxiety Disorder Bipolar Bipolar Disorder Coping Skills Depression Anxiety Everyday Life Inpatient Hospitalization Interventions Mains Source Type: blogs

Ten More Ways to Lower AnxietyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article was originally published on Explore What’s Next. For more on anxiety read: 10 Steps to Lower Anxiety and Find Empowerment What Is Anxiety? Understanding the Anxious Mind (Source: World of Psychology)
Source: World of Psychology - October 19, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Elvira G. Aletta, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety and Panic Brain and Behavior General Psychology Self-Esteem Stress Women's Issues Anxieties Anxious Patients Behavioral Scientists Boredom Cognitive Therapy Courage Craziness Crazy Thoughts Dr Robert Dr. Aletta Dr Source Type: blogs

7 Myths of DepressionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Depression is often viewed as the “common cold” of mental disorders, because it is so prevalent in our lives. The lifetime prevalence of depression suggests that more than 1 in 9 people could be diagnosed with the disorder at one point in their lives. And unlike some other mental disorders, depression affects virtually every aspect of what you do and how you interact with others. Every year, it wreaks havoc in millions of Americans’ lives, especially amongst those who believe it is something you should just “get over” on your own. Here are seven common myths about depression, and the facts tha...
Source: World of Psychology - October 18, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Brain and Behavior Depression Disorders General Health-related Men's Issues Mental Health and Wellness Policy and Advocacy Women's Issues Adhd Biological Roots Common Cold Common Myths Diabetes Genetic Components grief Havo Source Type: blogs

Friday Flashback for October 16, 2009Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This articles note the tripling of Ritalin prescriptions over 5 years (1990-1995), and not surprisingly, prescriptions for ADHD medications have grown exponentially since then. Is ADHD a serious problem in children? Absolutely. But can it be too-quickly diagnosed without a thorough mental health evaluation of the child? Yes, even today. 5 Years Ago on Psych Central A Patient’s Suicide, a Psychiatrist’s Pain Five years ago we highlighted this story from The New York Times, where a psychiatrist describes his first experience with one of his patients committing suicide. While not for the feint of heart, it rema...
Source: World of Psychology - October 16, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Brain and Behavior Children and Teens Friday Flashback General 10 Years Adhd Adhd Children Adhd In Children Adhd Medications Antidepressant Antidepressant Medications Antidepressants Approval Processes Array Beautiful Summer Source Type: blogs

Good Athelete, Not a Good Terrorist HunterEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The leading theory about this video is that John Elway would say anything for a buck. That’s fine for him to do, of course. But the producers of the video below inadvertently illustrate the difficulty of generating suspicion about terrorists (or any other thing) artificially. The video goes through eight signs of terrorism, on which they say “experts agree.” They are signs of terrorism, in a sense, but they are signs of lots of other things too. If Coloradans contacted authorities as instructed in the video, they would inundate law enforcement with false reports, possibly obscuring truly suspicious inform...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 15, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jim Harper Tags: Foreign Policy and National Security John Elway suspicion suspicious behavior terrorism Source Type: blogs

CBT better long-term than light therapy for 'winter blues'Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Lee Ann Cox - University of Vermont In the September issue of the journal Behavior Therapy, Kelly Rohan, associate professor of psychology, presents the first published research study of the long-term effects of different treatments for seasonal affective disorder (SAD), a form of severe depression that occurs annually in the fall and winter seasons. The first year Rohan randomized 69 people with SAD into one of four groups: light therapy treatment, cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), a combination of the two or a wait-list control. She then surveyed participants on how they were doing the next winter - one year later. Of th...
Source: Latest entries from www.anxietyinsights.info - October 15, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Anxiety Insights Tags: cognitive behavior therapy light therapy seasonal affective disorder Source Type: blogs

9 Types of Hopelessness and How to Overcome ThemEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I’ve become increasingly intrigued by the topic of hope because, if anything is going to help me climb out of the Black Hole of depression, it’s a sense of hope. In their book, “Hope in the Age of Anxiety,” psychology professors Anthony Scioli and Henry Biller discuss hope from a variety of different perspectives, combining psychology with philosophy, biology, anthropology as well as the literary classics. I went straight to chapter thirteen, of course, and read “Overcoming Hopelessness: Escape from Darkness.” The authors argue that there are nine forms of hopelessness, each related to ...
Source: World of Psychology - October 14, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Brain and Behavior Depression General Mental Health and Wellness Personal Psychology Psychotherapy Random Brain Bits Relationships Research Abandonment Age Of Anxiety Alienation Anthropology Array Black Hole Breakdowns Ch Source Type: blogs

10 More Ways to Make FriendsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Earlier this year, World of Psychology contributor Therese Borchard wrote a popular entry entitled, “10 Ways to Make Friends.” Inspired by her advice and based upon my own experiences throughout life, I present to you another 10 ways to make friends in your life. No matter what method you try, making new friends requires something I can’t give you in this article — courage. It takes courage to go out and actually take a leap of faith by introducing yourself to someone new and taking a chance you may be rejected. That’s why smaller groups are almost always easier — you can figure out who ...
Source: World of Psychology - October 13, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Brain and Behavior General Mental Health and Wellness Psychology Relationships Stress Students Borchard Boston Area Bowling League Facebook Fantasy Football League friendships Greater Boston Group Situations Leap Of Faith L Source Type: blogs

6 Steps to Quiet the MindEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I was all set to interview Eric Swanson, coauthor (with Yongey Mingur Rinpoche) of “Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Find Freedom,” when I realized that my main question — Can you give me some concrete steps to quiet the mind? — was already addressed in his book! So he and Harmony Books graciously gave me permission to reprint parts of chapter seven on “Attention.” Here, then, is the step-by-step approach to mindfulness or meditation — the basic practices of quieting the mind — provided in “Joyful Wisdom”: Step One: Objectless Attention The most basic approac...
Source: World of Psychology - October 12, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Brain and Behavior General Health-related Mental Health and Wellness Personal Psychotherapy Random Brain Bits Stress Background Chapter Seven Coauthor Concrete Steps Embracing Change Emotions Eric Swanson Freedom Harmony Bo Source Type: blogs

A Loved One’s Photo Helps Reduce Your PainEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Previous psychological research has demonstrated that the mere presence of a loved one — a partner, family member or friend — can help reduce one’s subjective experience of physical pain (for instance, during a medical procedure), versus experiencing similar pain while alone. This research has been replicated over the years in various settings and in such a way as to suggest that this indeed might be a causal relationship. That is, the presence of a loved one actually helps reduce our feelings of pain. What is this same phenomenon could occur without a loved one being present? Would a photo suffice to als...
Source: World of Psychology - October 11, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Brain and Behavior General Health-related Memory and Perception Mental Health and Wellness Psychology Random Brain Bits Relationships Research Stress Array California Los Angeles Causal Relationship Distraction Experimental Con Source Type: blogs

Emotions and Sensitivity: An Interview with Michael JawerEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Today I have the pleasure of interviewing Michael Jawer, coauthor of “The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion,” which you can read about at www.emotiongateway.com. He is an emotion researcher and expert on “sick building syndrome” and lives in Vienna, Virginia. I found his book incredibly intriguing and comprehensive. He dabbles in every topic you have ever wondered about in relationship to depression: sensitivities to chemicals, highly-sensitive people, different types of personalities, what the brain does while feeling anger and fear as opposed to compassion and empathy. Thanks for agreeing to be intervi...
Source: World of Psychology - October 10, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Anxiety and Panic Brain and Behavior Depression General Green and Environment Health-related Mental Health and Wellness On the Couch Personality Psychology Random Brain Bits Relationships Research Self-Esteem Women's Issues A Source Type: blogs

Candy = Violence: Correlation, Causation and AssociationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Week after week, month after month, the health (and mental health) news headlines blare with the latest “link” between two things. Take, for instance, a few articles from just this past week we’ve published… Childhood cancer? Less likely to marry. Obese? Depression is more likely. Eat licorice while pregnant? Your child may have a smaller IQ. And my favorite from the past week? Eat candy as a child? You’re going to become a criminal. Researchers seem content to draw these correlations, knowing full well their data shed little light on the actual problem. Instead, what they manage to do is to s...
Source: World of Psychology - October 9, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Brain and Behavior General Mental Health and Wellness Minding the Media Policy and Advocacy Random Brain Bits Research Adulthood Array Brain Cells British Cohort Study Candy Cardiff University Cardiff Wales Childhood Cancer C Source Type: blogs