Archive for February, 2012

Listed by most recent articles first.

• Mirror, Mirror in the Brain: The Biology of How We Connect to Others
  Have you ever cussed at your home team while watching a sporting event? How ...
• Premature Death Rates Rising in Schizophrenia, Bipolar Patients
  People with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder have a substantially raised risk of premature death, research warns, and the risk ...
• Teens and Porn
  One of the mistakes parents make when they learn their teenage son has been viewing pornography sites on his computer is to ...
• 15 ADHD-Friendly Tips to Fire Up Your Focus
  A wandering mind is common for people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Whether you’re talking to your ...
• Clinicians on the Couch: 10 Questions with Psychologist Will Meek
  In this regular feature on Psych Central, we’ve been talking with a different clinician each month about ...
• Trauma-Informed Practices with Children and Adolescents
  Trauma-Informed Practices with Children and Adolescents by William Steel and Cathy A. Malchiodi is a powerful and user-friendly book aimed at educating clinicians in their work with child and adolescent trauma survivors. This comprehensive book ...
• OCD and College Accommodations
  An interesting article recently appeared in the Wall Street Journal. “A Serious Illness or an Excuse” is worth reading and talks about ...
• Manage Your Depression Through Exercise
  Starting any exercise program can be a tough task.  However, for those suffering from depression, it can be close to impossible.  Just getting out of bed is a struggle for some; how are they to ...
• 5 Tips to Increase Your Assertiveness
  “Assertiveness is all about being present in a relationship,” according to Randy Paterson, Ph.D, a clinical psychologist and author ...
• Triggered: A Memoir of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
  Fletcher Wortmann obviously knows his subject.  "Triggered: A Memoir of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder" is for anyone who is or knows someone who is suffering from mental illness of any type.  While Wortmann wrestles with OCD, he ...
• ERP Therapy: A Good Choice for Treating OCD
  During OCD Awareness Week in October, I sat in front of my computer, mesmerized, as I watched a live ...
• Texting, Sexting… What’s Next?
  A mother with her three teenage daughters sat in my office the other day. Two of the girls were there for sick ...
• 8 Tips for Working from Home with Mental Illness
  People with mental illness struggle with the same time management troubles, distraction dilemmas and isolation issues as others ...
• The 11 Laws of Likability: Relationship Networking
  Sometimes self-help authors can’t help but fall into the trap of being overly positive. But not Michelle Tillis Lederman -- she knows how to remain balanced.  In her book, The 11 Laws of Likability: Relationship ...
• Creating a Charitable Family
  In memory of Johnny Carson's wonderful character, Carnac, I offer these three answers to an unknown question: the holidays, being honorees of a ...
• NeuroCounseling: Simple Therapeutic Interventions for Rewiring the Maladaptive Brain
  While I was taking my undergraduate and graduate classes many moons ago, my least favorite courses were the ...
• Valentine’s Day & Parental LOVE
  Did you know that about 40 percent of the 180 million Valentine's cards purchased this year will be bought by parents? ...
• Paranormality: Why We See What Isn’t There
  Author and professor Richard Wiseman has spent his career investigating and debunking everything from ghosts to psychics to séances to prophets.  While he now has a PhD in psychology with an emphasis in parapsychology, he ...
• What You Need to Know About Treatment-Resistant Depression
  Depression can be effectively treated with psychotherapy and medication. But it takes time to find the correct medication ...
• Healing Painful Sex: A Woman’s Guide to Confronting, Diagnosing and Treating Sexual Pain
  In Healing Painful Sex: A Woman’s Guide to Confronting, Diagnosing, and Treating Sexual Pain, physician Deborah Coady, MD, and psychotherapist Nancy Fish, MSW, MPH, combine their medical and psychological expertise to write a book about ...
• 3 Relationship Pitfalls When Entering Parenthood & Pointers to Help
  Couples are often surprised just how much a baby changes their relationship and their lives. In fact, ...
• The Gentle Self: How to Overcome Your Difficulties with Depression, Anxiety, Shyness, and Low Self-Esteem
  I think everyone’s a little narcissistic.  We all have moments when we wish everyone would be more like us—when we get upset that no one seems to care about what we are feeling.  We also ...
• Parenting after Traumatic Events: Ways to Support Children
  One of the most important messages for parents about traumatic experiences—such as car accidents, medical trauma, exposure to violence, ...
• Social Support Is Critical for Depression Recovery
  Every human being wants to belong. This need is so strong that people will do nearly anything to feel ...
• What Really Strengthens Self-Esteem
  Self-esteem gets a bad rap. Some view self-esteem as arrogance, narcissism or selfishness. It’s anything but. Individuals with healthy self-esteem are humble ...