Psychologists find that adults take girls' pain less seriously
From Science Daily 01/25/19Gender stereotypes can hurt children -- quite literally. When asked to assess how much pain a child is experiencing based on the observation of identical reactions to a finger-stick, American adults believe boys to be in more pain than girls, according to a new Yale study in the Journal of Pediatric Psychology. The researchers attribute this downgrading of the pain of girls and/or upgrading of the pain of boys to culturally ingrained, and scientifically unproven, myths like "boys are more stoic" or "girls are more emotive."For moreclick here. (Source: Markham's Behavioral Health)
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - February 3, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
Couch potatoes start early: How to get kids moving
This study also points out that it’s important to start early. As a pediatrician, I see sedentary habits start very early, with families that put their children in seats and playpens rather than putting them on the floor to learn to crawl and stand. As soon as a child can move, we need to give them lots of opportunities to do so — and we need to keep it up throughout childhood. Their future health depends on it.
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Source: Harvard Health Blog - January 24, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Children's Health Parenting Source Type: blogs
Men Can Take It: Reactions to APA ’ s Guidelines on Boys & Men
Back in August 2018, the American Psychological Association (APA) released a set of practice guidelines for working with boys and men in psychotherapy. Over 13 years in development and backed by hundreds of research references, the guidelines seek to provide advice to psychologists (and really, any mental health professional) who regularly works with men and boys in their practice.
These guidelines largely went uncommented and unnoticed until the APA’s in-house magazine wrote an article about them that was published in the January 2019 issue. The article made disparaging editorial remarks about masculinity not found ...
Source: World of Psychology - January 23, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: Men's Issues Mental Health and Wellness Psychiatry apa guidelines helping men mens psychology therapy for men Source Type: blogs
Young Men Who Endorse The Masculine Ideal of Success Enjoy Greater Psychological Wellbeing
By Christian Jarrett
Recently it’s been difficult to avoid the mantra that masculinity is toxic. There’s that viral Gillette advert encouraging men to be nicer (provoking a mix of praise, scorn and outrage); and the claim from the American Psychological Association (APA), in its promotion for its new guidelines on working with men and boys, that “traditional masculinity—marked by stoicism, competitiveness, dominance and aggression—is, on the whole, harmful” – a message welcomed by some, but criticised by many others, including Steven Pinker who dubbed it “ludicrous” and the Briti...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - January 18, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Gender Mental health Source Type: blogs
New Findings Could Help Explain Why ADHD Is Often Overlooked In Girls
By Emma Young
For every girl with ADHD, there are three boys with the same diagnosis. But among adults, the gender ratio is more like 1:1. That’s a big discrepancy. So what’s going on?
In 2017, Aja Louise Murray and colleagues investigated possible predictors of childhood vs. later (adolescent/adult-onset) ADHD, and they found hints that girls tend to develop ADHD at a later age than boys. Now a team that includes the same researchers has investigated this explicitly and in their paper in Developmental Science, they’ve confirmed it seems to be the case, which could partially explain the discrepancy in the ADHD gend...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - January 16, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: ADHD Gender Source Type: blogs
The (Dis)Comfort Zone
I realized recently that I rarely stray outside my comfort zone. It takes such an effort for me to keep going to classes, for example, or anything at night. Parties on weekends are a supreme effort at times, though I’m usually glad I went. But why is there such an effort behind going out, forward?
Anxiety runs in my family, I believe all of us but Ned suffer from it. Mine comes in waves, where the terrible times make me feel like old wood, about to crack and splinter. I think Nat’s is like this, too. When he was a baby and had some new food in front of him, he said, “Don’t worry hot dogs.” Try...
Source: Susan's Blog - January 14, 2019 Category: Child Development Authors: Susan Senator Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Fear: The Enemy From Within
Conclusion
What have we learned? That fear uses our feelings to manipulate us. However, as we fight fear, we should know that it is part of our neural system. Taming our feelings and emotions will put fear under our will. Fear is the catalyst behind the many actions or decisions we take or make daily. Thank you for being my guest. Let us meet again as we tackle another topic on self-improvement.You've read Fear: The Enemy From Within, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you've enjoyed this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. (Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement)
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - January 4, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: wordtweaking Tags: confidence featured psychology self improvement fear personal power pickthebrain self confidence Source Type: blogs
Dander Up, Down, and All Around
Today ' s topics: VA health care politics; a clear-eyed and sane report from a bastion of managerialism, with related observations on innovators trying to create real bottom-up value.It ' s the last day of the year, so let ' s get this done. Owing to various largely unforeseen challenges, happily now largely behind us, this " Dander " series was interrupted for some time. Apologies to anyone who noticed. In any case, to refresh: as Chief Blogger and FIRM president Dr. Poses has indicated often enough in these pages, health care developments raising our dander are still everywhere, all the time, and on the increas...
Source: Health Care Renewal - December 31, 2018 Category: Health Management Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Strange Interlude
We have seen that Genesis is a conglomeration of stories and fragments from various sources. Most of it likely existed in some form as pre-literate oral tradition before being written down. These have been stitched together into the semblance of a historical narrative, but it ' s filled with continuity errors, contradictions, impossibilities and absurdities, multiple versions of the same story, omissions and elisions, gratuitous factoids. The story of Joseph, as we noted, seems more coherent and better crafted than most of what has gone before. It was likely the thoughtful creation of a relatively skilled author, rather th...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 30, 2018 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Top 10 Articles in the ASHA Leader for 2018
Who doesn’t love a top-10 list?
With this list, you can peruse popular articles while honing your professional skills over the holidays. Enjoy re-reading or discovering for the first time some of the most-read articles printed in The ASHA Leader this past year.
Top audiology articles
Chomp. Slurp. Smack. SNAP!
Hypersensitivity to certain trigger sounds—known as misophonia—can be socially and emotionally crippling for some people.
Audiology Unbundled
Wake Forest Baptist Health restructured its audiology clinic to establish an unbundled services model. Here’s how they did it.
Ear Care for All, On and Off the Job
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Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - December 26, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: Academia & Research Audiology Health Care Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology autism Source Type: blogs
Designer Babies: A Dystopian Sidetrack of Gene Editing
A Chinese scientist shocked the scientific community a couple of days ago with the announcement of having modified the very blueprint of life. If his claims are true, he tried to bestow two baby girls the ability to resist possible future infections with HIV. The outrage shows that humanity is not prepared to utilize the power of gene editing on embryos yet. We have no idea about the biological consequences, and we haven’t tackled the necessary legal and ethical issues.
Genes to become toys of the “Gods”?
Humanity has come a long way since Aldous Huxley pinned down how methods of genetic engineering, biological cond...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 15, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Bioethics Future of Medicine Genomics designer babies designer baby Gene gene editing genes Genome genome sequencing Health Healthcare healthcare system Innovation technology Source Type: blogs
In the “Trust Game”, men with more autistic traits were less influenced by their partner’s facial appearance
Men with more autistic traits made decisions based more on their partner’s behaviour and less on appearance; from Hooper et al, 2018
By Emma Young
We make all kinds of snap decisions about a person based on their facial appearance. How trustworthy we think they are is one of the most important, as it can have many social and financial consequences, from influencing our decisions about whether to lend someone money to which Airbnb property to book.
However, as the authors of a new study, published in the British Journal of Psychology, note, “Although facial impressions of trustworthiness are formed automatically,...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - December 11, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Autism Faces Money Source Type: blogs
Lessons Learned From the Outcomes of Children With Hearing Loss Study
In this online chat, two presenters discuss implications of the study findings for aural rehabilitation. The event was sponsored by SIG 9, Hearing and Hearing Disorders in Childhood.
Meredith Spratford: Our research has shown that when we use probe microphone verification, we get a closer match to prescriptive targets compared to other methods of verification. Specifically, probe microphone measures provided better fittings (better audibility, too) compared to functional gain (soundfield thresholds). I would also ensure that the child’s aided audibility falls within the confidence interval of expected audibility for ...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - December 10, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Meredith Spratford Tags: Academia & Research Audiology Health Care Private Practice Schools Slider audiologist Hearing Aids hearing health care hearing loss Source Type: blogs
PODCAST: Why People With Mental Illness Should Remove Toxic People From Their Life
Living with mental illness means accepting that some things are out of our control. It also means tolerating annoyances like pillboxes, regular doctor visits, and the symptoms we just can’t quite get under control.
But, does living with mental illness mean we have to keep toxic people around us? Do we, as people who are managing a severe and persistent illness, just have to take the abuse that people heap on us because at least we aren’t alone?
In this episode, Gabe & Michelle explore tolerating toxic people and whether or not it’s a good idea. Listen now!
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Source: World of Psychology - December 3, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: A Bipolar, a Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Tags: A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Friends Schizophrenia Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Visiting a Psych Ward as a Guest after Having Been a Patient
Recently, Michelle had to take a friend to the hospital because of her friend’s thoughts of suicide. This was the first time Michelle had experienced the mental health system from any viewpoint other than that of a patient. In this episode, she describes everything she experienced and how it made her feel.
For many people living with mental illness, being committed to a psychiatric hospital is one of our deepest fears. Even people who aren’t mentally ill fear psychiatric hospitals – something that is on public display during Halloween.
Our hosts, Gabe & Michelle, have discussed their experiences as patients ...
Source: World of Psychology - November 26, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: A Bipolar, a Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Tags: A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Schizophrenia Trauma Source Type: blogs
