The Special Issue Spotter
We trawl the world's psychology journals so you don't have to:Positive Psychology in Search for Meaning (The Journal of Positive Psychology).Maternal Sensitivity: Observational Studies Honoring Mary Ainsworth’s 100th Year (Attachment and Human Development).Personality Psychology and Psychotherapy (Journal of Personality).Celebrating 20 Years of Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (Neuroimage).Measuring Psychological Health in the Perinatal Period (Journal of Infant and Reproductive Psychology).Traumatic Brain Injury (Behavioural Sciences and the Law).The Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility: Clinical, Criminolog...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - January 29, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christian Jarrett Source Type: blogs
Psychonomic Society
The Psychonomic Society is open to those who are interested in experimental psychology, but mainly its members work with cognitive psychology. The Psychonomic Society “broke off” from the APA in 1959 due to the APA being focused on clinical psychology.
Also, to be a member of the Psychonomic Society, a member must hold a Ph.D. (or equivalent) degree in their field and have published significant research other than their dissertation. (Source: PsychSplash)
Source: PsychSplash - January 20, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Psych Central Resource Editor Tags: Anyone Articles Careers Clinicians Cognitive Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Cognitive Fitness Cognitive Training Collaborative News Community and Social Networking Conferences Features For General Psychology History of Psychology Source Type: blogs
Worrying about health
You may wonder why I’m writing about health anxiety: how does this fit with pain management? Read on – the connection is pretty clear.
Health anxiety (or hypochondriasis) is thought to be fairly common in the community, maybe 5% lifetime prevalence. It involves being extraordinarily worried about the meaning of body symptoms, over-interpreting the significance of ambiguous body sensations. As you can probably imagine, people who experience health anxiety turn up in many different guises in the health system. It’s distressing to the person, not just because they’re afraid they have some dire diseas...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - January 19, 2014 Category: Occupational Therapists Authors: adiemusfree Tags: Cognitive behavioral therapy Pain conditions Research CBT healthcare Source Type: blogs
Therapy, Ethics, Malpractice, Forensics, Critical Thinking (and a few other topics)
Ken Pope, Ph.D., ABPP, has set up this site to provides free access articles from journals such as American Psychologist, Clinical Psychology: Science & Practice; Psychology, Public Policy, & Law; and Professional Psychology: Research & Practice, among others — as well as the complete book titled Children, Ethics, & the Law.
It also links to licensing agencies in Canada and the United States, ethics codes, informed consent; forensic assessment checklists and more! (Source: PsychSplash)
Source: PsychSplash - December 23, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Psych Central Resource Editor Tags: Abnormal Academia Addiction ADHD Anxiety Articles Behaviour Management Bipolar Books Case Studies Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology Clinical Tool Development Clinical Tools Clinicians Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Coll Source Type: blogs
Tinnitus - 2013 Lancet review
Tinnitus is perception of sound where there is noneIn 2011, British newspapers reported that a rock fan committed suicide to relieve tinnitus that he had for 3 months after a supergroup's gig. Tinnitus is characterized as perception of sound where there is none. The Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine published a review on Tinnitus: Patients do not have to ‘just live with it’ and Tinnitus relief: Suggestions for patients.From NHS YouTube channel:Tinnitus is a common medical symptom that can be debilitating. Risk factors include:- hearing loss- ototoxic medication- head injury- depression At presentation, the possibili...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - December 20, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: noreply at blogger.com (Ves Dimov, M.D.) Tags: ENT Lancet Source Type: blogs
Web MD Mental Health
WebMD has a vast resource of Mental Health resources at your fingertips. There are Expert Blogs, Community Help (such as WebMD Depression Help, WebMD Schizophrenia Help and so on) and ways to find a Doctor.
There are a plethora of ideas, thoughts and links to explore on Web MD Mental Health. There are quizzes, articles, slideshows, and even videos to help you with your Mental Health needs. (Source: PsychSplash)
Source: PsychSplash - December 16, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Psych Central Resource Editor Tags: Addiction ADHD Anxiety Anyone Articles Aspergers Autism Behaviour Management Bipolar Clinical Psychology Clinical Tools Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Collaborative News Common Factors Consumers Depression Educational Psycholo Source Type: blogs
We still need to talk: a report on access to talking therapies
This report finds that more than one in ten (12%) people with mental health problems are stuck on waiting lists for over a year before receiving talking treatments and over half (54%) wait over three months. The survey of over 1,600 people who have tried to access talking therapies such as counselling and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy on the NHS in England over the last two years also shows how some people are paying for private therapy to get the help they desperately need. One in ten said that they had faced costs for private treatment because the therapy they needed was not available on the NHS.
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Source: Health Management Specialist Library - November 28, 2013 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Mental Health Patient involvement, experience and feedback Source Type: blogs
Military Pathways Mental Health Screening
Being in the military alone can be severely stressful. Adding a family, or a war, or threat of war to the equation definitely makes it much more stressful. This website is tied in with the United States Department of Defense and the nonprofit organization, Screening for Mental Health, who are trying to find via assessments if a military man or woman is experiencing traumatic events.
For instance, these assessments will help a person find out whether or not they might have some common mental health issues including, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, anxiety, alcohol problems and more. Of course, just as ...
Source: PsychSplash - October 21, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Psych Central Resource Editor Tags: Abnormal Anger Assessment Instruments Behaviour Management Clinical Psychology Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Cognitive Fitness Cognitive Training Combat Stress Consumers Depression Emotional Health Family Therapy Features For L Source Type: blogs
Does Stress Increase Alzheimer's Risk for Women?
Conclusions
The study shows that common psychosocial stressors may have severe and long-standing physiological and psychological consequences.
More studies are needed to confirm these results and investigate whether more interventions such as stress management and behavioural therapy should be initiated in individuals who have experienced psychosocial stressors.
Source BMJ Open, http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/3/9/e003142.abstract?sid=854b9db2-74d3-4fb2-9307-b9d8ffc45204
This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 3.0) license, which permits o...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - October 3, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
Depression lifted, no more stomach pains, 90 pounds down!
Here’s Rachael’s wonderful story of marked improvement in longstanding depression, along with getting slimmer by 90 pounds!
In December/January just past I started eating to Wheat Belly guidelines. I’m no longer depressed, stomach pains from wheat are gone, I’m healthy and happy. I went from 250 pounds to 160. And still dropping.
I did this for my health and concern for Frankenwheat, not solely to lose weight. They just happen to go hand in hand.
Ever since I was little, I’ve suffered from depression. When I was 18, I was admitted to hospital for about three months. Drug after drug and trial ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - August 13, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Depression Wheat-elimination success stories Source Type: blogs
Repetition Compulsion: Why Do We Repeat the Past?
“If you can’t repeat your past…
What then are ‘mistakes’ which become [habitual]
Are they not of the past? Isn’t it repetition? I daresay…!”
~ Merlana Krishna Raymond
Humans seek comfort in the familiar. Freud called this repetition compulsion, which he famously defined as “the desire to return to an earlier state of things.”
This takes form in simple tasks. Perhaps you watch your favorite movie over and over, or choose the same entrée at your favorite restaurant. More harmful behaviors include repeatedly dating people who might emotionally or physically abuse you. or using dr...
Source: World of Psychology - June 29, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Kristi DeName Tags: Brain and Behavior General Habits Psychology Psychotherapy Treatment Anger Death Drive Desire Drugs False Accusations Favorite Restaurant Freud Harmful Behaviors Insecurities Jealousy Krishna Leads Negative Patterns N Source Type: blogs
Clinical psychology trainees outperform experienced therapists on knowledge and skills
Conducted in Germany, this study pitched undergrad psychology students, postgrad clinical psychology trainees and experienced psychological therapists against each other on tests of psychological knowledge and skills. The slightly worrying result is that the trainees aced it, outperforming not just the students (on most tests) but also the experienced therapists. "The picture is not so bright" for the seasoned therapists, the researchers said. "Our results point to a decrease in knowledge and variability in clinical competence."
The research led by Sabine Vollmer had two parts. The first involved 55 novice, intermedi...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - June 24, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christian Jarrett Source Type: blogs
No dishonour in depression
Comedian and writer Ruby Wax, a regular on British television, has clinical depression. In her book published last week, Sane New World (Hodder & Stoughton, 2013), she describes her struggles with different therapies and her fear of being ‘found out’. She is not alone. A 2010 survey in Europe revealed that 38% of people had a diagnosed mental disorder — including 7% with major depression. The proportion is likely to be similar in all populations, even in Africa, where psychiatric disease barely features on the health agenda.The stigma attached to such disorders means that many people do not admit to the...
Source: PharmaGossip - June 12, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
Should you help a person with OCD do their checks?
This study is unable to show that accommodation by one partner caused the other partner's worse symptoms - the causal direction could run either way. However, past longitudinal research in a family setting has shown that reductions in accommodation precede patient improvement.
In the current study, Boeding's team also found that individuals who performed more of their partner's OCD checks tended to report less relationship satisfaction, consistent with past research suggesting the process of accommodation can be "taxing and frustrating" for care-givers. In turn, patients with a partner who performed more accommodatio...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - May 29, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christian Jarrett Source Type: blogs
From: @NSUNnews – Call out for #MentalHealth Service Users who have missed out on #NHS therapy. #ukmh
From NSUN:
BBC Radio 4′s You and Yours programme is looking for people who have missed out on NHS therapy. The programme makers are examining whether the expansion of talking therapy in the NHS, through Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) with its emphasis on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) has been bought at the expense of other therapy services. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the diversity of therapies being offered in the NHS is shrinking dramatically.
An ideal case study might be someone who knows they need psychodynamic or psychoanalytical psychotherapy, having had an assessment, but have foun...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - May 10, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
