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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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First Impressions Count, Even Online

Friday, November 13th, 2009

We already know that first impressions can tell a lot about a person. You meet someone, you shake their hand, they smile, you ...

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Research-Backed Online Mental Health Interventions

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

So the other week I attended and presented at the First International e-Mental Health Summit 2009 in Amsterdam and already discussed ...

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Design Can Encourage Greater Self-Disclosure

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Every day, our behavior is directly influenced by a number of factors, some of which we may not even ...

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Psychotherapists Unmasked on the Internet

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Five years ago I was having lunch with my father, a psychiatrist of almost 45 years. He was ...

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Are the Media Addicted to Internet Addiction?

Monday, October 26th, 2009

As Dr. John Grohol has cogently argued, there are many reasons to be skeptical ...

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Optimism: Great Technology That Can Help You

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

Ever since I was discharged from the inpatient psychiatric program at Johns Hopkins, I have kept a mood journal where I daily ...

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Getting Help for Depression Online

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

As promised, this is one in a series of posts I'll write about online interventions that help treat ...

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Introducing the Journal of Participatory Medicine

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Well, today's the day. After many months of long, hard work by many talented professionals -- among them, Sarah Greene, managing editor; co-editors Jessie Gruman and Charles Smith; and Alan Greene, deputy editor -- the ...

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Amsterdam e-Mental Health Conference 2009

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

Last week, I had the honor of attending and presenting at the first international e-Mental Health Summit for 2009, ...

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Facebook, Myspace and Twitter: Evil to Teens

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

"This technology may be interfering with the normal development of a generation, prolonging the “normal” narcissism of adolescence and preventing the ...

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Do Czech Teens Lie Online?

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Do Czech teens lie about themselves and their lives on their blogs? A new research study suggests the answer may surprise you -- generally, "No." In a survey of 113 teens, ages 13 to 17 years old, ...

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