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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Phone Psychotherapy Helps Depression

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Imagine a treatment that was so powerful and useful, it could even be delivered by the telephone. That treatment? Good old psychotherapy. We've previously discussed ...

The Debilitating Effects of TV on Children

Sunday, September 27th, 2009
Most of us are generally aware that television isn't the healthiest of activities. Yet, like cigarette smoking in the 1970s, it's ...

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