2009 November | World of Psychology

Getting Therapy When There’s No Money

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

I can't help but mention this article in The New York Times about how to get mental health care when you have no insurance or for some reason your have minimal coverage for mental health ...

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Surviving the Suicide of Someone You Love

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

My brother's childhood best friend committed suicide. I was 16 years old at the time, Mark (not his real name) was 21. Mark's parents were close friends of my parents; we played together as little ...

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Woman Loses Sick-Leave Benefits for Depression Thanks to Facebook Pics

Friday, November 20th, 2009

[caption id="attachment_6838" align="alignleft" width="220" caption="Quebec woman Nathalie Blanchard poses on the beach in a Facebook photograph that convinced her insurance company that she was no longer depressed."]...

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2009 Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy Recommendations

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Earlier this month, I was honored to attend the 25th Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy in Atlanta, Georgia. The focus of this symposium every year is to tackle a particular issue in ...

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Year in Review: Your Picks

Friday, November 20th, 2009

It's that time of the year again, when we pull together our top picks for mental health and psychology stories in the news in the past year. There's no magic to our choices, we're just ...

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Two New Blogs, Always Learning and The Y Factor

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

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 ...

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12 Ways to Be Thankful

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

To get us in the mood for the Thanksgiving Holiday! Cicero said that "gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all ...

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Holiday Blues, With Some Shades of Grey

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Meagan really wanted this Christmas to be "extra special" -- not like last year, when ...

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2009 Army Suicides: Highest Ever

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

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 ...

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