Archive for December, 2006

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• Tips for Coping with Organizational Change
  Downsizing. Reinventing. Reorganizing. Merging. Acquiring. Joint venturing. Relocating. Restructuring. Many of these have become euphemisms for removing significant numbers of employees from a company's payroll. Whether you are among those laid off or those who remain ...
• College Activities: Not-So-Incidental Learning
  So, you’re in college or off to college soon. Big question: Are you having fun yet? If the answer is “no,” what I say is this -- get yourself out of the classroom, your nose ...
• Caregiving Is a Two-Way Relationship
  Helpers and elders are, of course, male as well as female. But for purposes of clarity, I am using the feminine pronoun, since most people in caregiving relationships are female. Women traditionally take on the caregiving ...
• Aging Parents and Your Emotional Well-Being
  Browse the bookstore. Check the Web. You'll find extensive information about how to assist your aging parents. What you're unlikely to find, however, is help for the myriad feelings you will experience as your mom ...
• Embracing the Challenge of Life with Epilepsy
  This article is not about epilepsy per se. It is instead about the challenges that people with epilepsy and their families successfully manage each and every day. For the record, epilepsy is not a mental illness. ...
• FAQs About Antisocial Personality Disorder
  Do "bad boys" turn into antisocial adults? They can. As children, adults with antisocial personality disorder, or ASP, often were diagnosed with conduct disorder. They routinely mocked authority figures, such as parents, teachers and other ...
• Treatment for Antisocial Personality Disorder
  Few individuals seek medical attention specifically for antisocial personality disorder, or ASP. Antisocials who seek care do so for other problems such as marital discord, alcohol or drug abuse or suicidal thoughts. Family members or ...
• Introduction to Antisocial Personality Disorder
  He is the bad boy in high school — stealing stuff from other kids and lying about it, picking fights, getting poor grades. But he doesn't seem to care. Grown up, he's a con artist ...
• What Is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
  By definition, antisocial personality disorder, or ASP, is a lifelong personality disorder that affects many more men than women and begins before age 15. The disorder is chronic, though it tends to be worse early ...
• What Causes Antisocial Personality Disorder?
  The cause of antisocial personality disorder, or ASP, is unknown. Like many mental health issues, evidence points to inherited traits. But dysfunctional family life also increases the likelihood of ASP. So although ASP may have ...
• Facts about Suicide
  Men are four times more likely than women to die by suicide, but women try to commit suicide twice as often as men (they're just unsuccessful). Such attempts often are viewed as a "cry for ...
• Social Phobia
  Social phobia is an intense fear of becoming humiliated in social situations, specifically of embarrassing yourself in front of other people. It often runs in families and may be accompanied by depression or alcoholism. Social ...
• Specific Phobias
  Many people experience specific phobias (intense, irrational fears of certain things or situations) — dogs, closed-in places, heights, escalators, tunnels, highway driving, water, flying and injuries involving blood are a few of the more common ...
• Facts About Phobias
  Phobias are persistent, irrational fears of certain objects or situations. Phobias occur in several forms; the fear associated with a phobia can focus on a particular object (specific phobia) or be a fear of embarrassment ...
• An Introduction to Phobias
  Phobias occur in several forms. A specific phobia is a fear of a particular object or situation. Social phobia is a fear of being painfully embarrassed in a social setting. And agoraphobia, which often accompanies ...
• PTSD and Community Violence
  Community violence can take many forms: riots, sniper attacks, gang wars and drive-by shootings, and workplace assaults. On a larger scale, terrorist attacks, torture, bombings, war, ethnic cleansing, and widespread sexual, physical and emotional abuse ...
• PTSD and Older Veterans
  From as long ago as Homer's ancient story of the battle between the Trojans and the Greeks, and the times of the Bible and Shakespeare, military personnel have been confronted by the trauma of war. ...
• Types of PTSD
  There are five main types of post-traumatic stress disorder: normal stress response, acute stress disorder, uncomplicated PTSD, comorbid PTSD and complex PTSD. Normal Stress Response The normal stress response occurs when healthy adults who have been ...
• Psychotherapy Treatment for PTSD
  Psychotherapy is an effective treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and survivors of trauma. There are a variety of psychotherapies available, but they all share a number of common attributes: Therapy always is individualized to meet ...
• PTSD and Relationships
  Trauma survivors with PTSD often experience problems in their intimate and family relationships or close friendships. PTSD involves symptoms that interfere with trust, emotional closeness, communication, responsible assertiveness, and effective problem solving: Loss of interest in ...
• An Overview of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is characterized as an anxiety problem that people sometimes experience after witnessing or being involved with a traumatic event, such as a fire, a war, an accident or the like. ...
• Facts about PTSD
  General Adult Population The following information on PTSD in the general adult population is taken from the National Comorbidity Survey (NCS) report. The estimated lifetime prevalence of PTSD among adult Americans is 7.8 percent, with women ...
• PTSD and Children
  Children often are exposed to trauma as a result of the following kinds of events: physical or sexual assault or abuse family and community violence experiencing or witnessing severe accidents natural or technological disasters life-threatening ...
• Negotiating Immediate Differences
  The purpose of negotiation is to resolve immediate differences. These differences are concrete and situation-specific (for example, what movie to attend or who takes on what household chore). Immediate differences don't linger to periodically frustrate ...
• The Emotional Challenges of Interfaith Marriage
  There is a rapid rate of intermarriage among people of different faiths in the United States. Estimates are that 50 percent of Jewish men and women intermarry. Several articles about the Catholic Church have pointed ...