Microblogging service Twitter is maximizing in popularity. Though there are naysayers who don’t understand the medium and dismiss it as shallow and narcissistic (just like early blog critics did), Twitter is used in many vital ways. For …
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Thanks for including me on the list. I follow many of these folks myself and am honored to be in such good company. Just wanted to take a second to clarify that while my posts reflect my professional interests and activities, I am not speaking on behalf of APA. Finally, readers should also consider following @psychcentral and @docjohng. Hope I’m contributing even a fraction of what I gain from using Twitter. I learn a lot every day and have met some great people.
Thanks for the list Sandra! It’s great to get recommendations on who is best to follow on Twitter! I’ve already started following some of them!
Katherine @postpartumprogr
Great list!
I would also recommend
@TogetherUK
http://twitter.com/TogetherUK/
@PsychBrownBag
http://twitter.com/PsychBrownBag/
Thanks everyone! David, thanks for recommending @docjohng and @psychcentral, I only kept those accounts (and others who are related) off the list to be unbiased.
@postpartumprog, @togetherUK and @psychbrownbag are all accounts I personally follow and were strong contenders for this list.
I’m honored to be on your list, thanks so much for making it. Lots of good tweeps on the list, I’m adding the ones I am not already following. Twitter is good for getting some dialogue going on psychology and management related issues.
I am honored to be included! I see many others I follow and learn from on the list. I am enjoying this method of connecting and networking across the miles.
Me again, just thought I would say that as a counselling student/ trainee therapist this is another reason why I love twitter and blogging. The ability to learn from all manner of folks in the field of mental health, that I would of never got a chance to without the medium of social networking.
Thanks so much, Sandra. What an honor. And I’m in such great company! This was a real treat. Can’t wait to check out a few of the folks here who I hadn’t been following yet.
Hi Sandra,
Thanks so much for including me on this list with many colleagues I already follow and respect! I might also mention @kateanthony and @wilsoncounselli as other great resources for issues related to online therapy.
I am pretty surprised to have seen Isabella Mori (@moritherapy) overlooked on this list, particularly as she writes about mental health issues and has been blogging about this topic for a very long time. I am also disappointed that hard volunteer work organizing Mental Health Camp, which was groundbreaking in and of itself. Hopefully this may be considered.
Raul, agree- indeed- @moritherapy as well as @hyblis- two others that are great to follow.
Cheers, Kate @kateanthony
Well hello Kate! A great follow for info on online therapy as well as wilsoncounselli
Sandra, thank you so much for including me on the list grouped in with many colleagues I already follow and respect!
Hello Kate! @kateanthony is another great follow for information on online therapy as well as @wilsoncounselli
Sandra, thank you for adding me to this list of well respected colleagues- many of whom I already follow!
DA
Psychology is a normative system that naturalizes essentially social and cultural values and beliefs and in the process pathologizes people and ‘behaviors’ that are perfectly understandable from the individual’s perspective but don’t fit with the largely white middle-class field of psychologysts. In short, psychologists are the bureaucrats of the soul. http://www.twitter.com/andrewdbryant
Thanks so much Sandra for including me on this list. I have learned a terrific amount from being on Twitter from colleagues and the tweets they write. It is wonderful to connect with people with similar interests and I hope that my tweets help others. If I have been able to even reach one person, then it was well worth it. I love being a therapist and helping others is what I do!
Hi Raul – Isabella Mori is wonderful. Moritherapy is one of my fave blogs, and of course I appreciate and recognize her great work as co-organizer of MentalHealthCamp.
http://www.moritherapy.org/
She’s not on this list, though, because of criteria 5 & 6. I do follow her account @moritherapy and recommend it to others if they can handle the volume of that feed. She has lots to offer.
Positive Psychology Pro’s…
@biswasdiener (author of Psychological Wealth)
@ToddKashdan (author of Curiosity)
@happier
I think http://www.twitter.com/Peer_Resources meets all the criteria you mentioned and ought to be included in your list of top psych tweeps.
A great list. I’m so impressed by the quantity of high quality psych tweeters. They provide such a valuable service to so many people. Each day, I find myself looking forward to reading the comments of so many people on this list.
Also, thanks to Claire for the @psychbrownbag mention in the comment section. That was greatly appreciated!
What a great list
and thanks for the mention DeeAnna
Excellent resource. Thank you!
Another excellent tweeter on positive psychology, psychology of music, and sports psychology is http://twitter.com/johnschin
Thanks Sandra! Your amazing.
Stephanie Price
President & Founder
Love Is The Cure
This is a great list, thanks! For the positive psychology list, I’d add @shawnachor. A Harvard researcher and great speaker–he just joined recently but has shared some interesting thoughts.
Nice job with this and the second post. I tweet as @happier with a focus on positive psychology, online tools and assessments. We are happier.com, working with Martin Seligman and other top faculty in positive psychology. We recently tweeted from the IPPA World Congress and will continue to share findings in positive psychology!
great list…
would also rec my company @SignalPatterns
http://www.twitter.com/SignalPatterns
a provider of cool psychology-based web and mobile applications
and a new project: @GratitudeStream
http://www.twitter.com/GratitudeStream – a global stream of positive thoughts and thanks…
To psychology tweeters – please don’t tweet the mental health discussions from those individuals writing to support forums. Many people write to seek support from just the members of those forums and don’t want their mental health discussions spread exponentially into cyberspace to be googled and passed around nonchalantly.
The owner of another mental health support forum has been doing this to bring more traffic to a forum, and I barely know of anyone writing about their mental health concerns who feels comfortable at all with others tweeting their more personal discussions around. Of course, comments in many internet forums are fair game, those forums that don’t encourage privacy in their TOS, but it is not a very appropriate or nice thing to do to members of the mental health community.
Thanks for the links.