Archive for September, 2009

Listed by most recent articles first.

• Women and Violence
  The impact of violence against women is too often masked by silence. Its continuation depends on silence. Distance keeps us safe and unless one personally experiences violence or knows someone who has, many of us ...
• The Depression Advantage
  Depression, like other mental illnesses, is rarely seen as a good thing. While many can articulate positive things about having a mental illness (or knowing someone who does), the illness itself is almost never ...
• Searching for Soul: A Survivor’s Guide
  Bobbe Tyler, author, nonfiction writer and retired communications coordinator for Lucasfilm Ltd, has written a book of the type, and in the style, that has kept her alive all these years. Her book, Searching ...
• Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Linked to Earlier Poor Health
  Rates of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are higher among military personnel who had mental or physical health problems before combat, a recent study has found. Cynthia LeardMann and colleagues at the Naval Health Research Center in ...
• Taking Medication: 16 Ways to Become a Smart Self-Advocate
  When we walk into the doctor’s office, for many of us, the scenario looks like this: We list off our symptoms, the doctor asks a few questions, writes out a prescription and we go on ...
• Model Success To Create Successful Students
  I’m privileged to teach an upper-level psychology course to juniors and seniors at our state university. Their grades are good to great. They have chosen majors, taken advantage of internship opportunities, and started to ...
• When Your Kids Disappoint You
  As summer winds down, many parents longingly await school, yet dread the frustration and disappointment they feel regarding their kids and the resulting guilt over these reactions. Parents may have a clear vision of their children’s ...
• Diet May Improve Childhood Eczema
  Researchers are investigating whether excluding certain foods from the diet can help treat childhood eczema. Dr. Fiona Bath-Hextall and her team from Nottingham University, UK, explain that allergic eczema is a very common inflammatory skin disease ...
• 8 Tips for Building Healthy Parent/Teacher Relationships
  It’s astonishing but true: Many children spend more of their waking hours with their teachers each weekday than they do with their parents. By the time parents get home from work and kids get home ...
• The Genetics of Compulsive Hoarding
  Is compulsive hoarding inherited? People who compulsively acquire and hoard clutter to the extent that it impairs their daily activities are labeled "compulsive hoarders." The condition is classed as a subtype of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), present ...