World of Psychology

Archive for April, 2007

Adolescents & Risk-Taking Behavior

Sunday, April 29th, 2007
Several areas of research have converged over the past several years to give people a better understanding of adolescent risk-taking behavior. For many teens, taking risks and making mistakes (sometimes life-changing) is part of what ...

Therapy After Domestic Violence

Sunday, April 29th, 2007
Domestic violence and its effects on kids as well as the adults involved is often under-reported and can be forgotten about. Fortunately, a recent report via Reuters covers new research on therapy for victims of ...

Can Parents Influence their Kid’s Sexual Behavior?

Friday, April 27th, 2007
You know those public service television commercials where some celebrity-of-the-moment encourages you to talk to your kids about sex or drugs or something? Well, not surprising, such talks are of little use. A study conducted in ...

Psychological Medication Use Increase

Thursday, April 26th, 2007
It's no secret that the amount of prescriptions filled for psychotropic medication has been increasing at a rapid pace. However, most people don't really just how many people are taking these drugs and how much ...

Praise Your Spouse 5x More or Else

Thursday, April 26th, 2007
In an article in last Friday's edition of the Wall Street Journal, there appeared an article from Jeffrey Zaslow entitled, "The Most-Praised Generation Goes to Work." (You'll have to take my word for it, ...

Sometimes My Mommy Gets Angry

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
Bebe Moore Campbell, writer and mental health advocate, suffered with a bipolar disorder and died of brain cancer last winter. In 2003 she wrote the award-winning children's book Sometimes My Mommy Gets Angry. Narrated ...

Violent Thoughts & Cho

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007
As the cultural obsession with Cho continues, it reveals a deep human need to understand, explain, and feel in control of this type of situation. We think that if we can predict every warning sign ...

Psychotherapy & OCD

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007
There has been a reasonable amount of evidence accumulating that talk therapy is an effective approach to treating obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). A new study covered by United Press International found that certain cognitive-behavioral therapies ...

Am I really funny or are you just trying to impress me?

Friday, April 20th, 2007
A little over a year ago, I went through what has so far been the worst string of bad dates in my life. There was one guy who stole one of my CDs when ...

NeuroTalk Communities Mentioned in Neurology Now

Friday, April 20th, 2007
I was pleased to see that our NeuroTalk Communities was mentioned in Dr. Orly Avitzur's article about the benefits of joining an online neurology community in Neurology Now. What a great article touting the ...

Sensationalizing Murder and Mental Health

Friday, April 20th, 2007
As predicted, the media is now making some very generalized and meaningless connections between Cho's hospitalization 16 months ago in 2005, and his actions on Monday. The Los Angeles Times leads the ...

Healthy Brain Upkeep

Friday, April 20th, 2007
Many of us think about how to keep out hearts and muscles healthy, but few of us think about how to keep our brains healthy. Fortunately, some folks from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution have a ...

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