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Why Teens Need a Strict Parent
Being strict is easy when it’s other people’s kids. We hear a kid whining in the toy aisle and the mom caves, handing him the toy. You listen to the neighbors complain about their daughter’s defiance of their rules. The nightly news shows the faces of teens who committed a crime and now have a record to follow them. “Well, their parents should have been more strict! Strict parents wouldn’t have allowed that. You have to teach and control your children!” Instinctively, we all know that being a strict parent should result in a child who is successful and well-adjusted. In practice, though, it is much more difficu...
Source: World of Psychology - May 3, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tyler Jacobson Tags: Children and Teens Family Parenting Personal Relationships Students Success & Achievement Technology Accountability Adolescence authoritative parenting Behavior Modification Consequences Developmental psychology Parenting Style Source Type: blogs

Looks like we ’re going to have to re-write the textbooks on split-brain patients
Figure from Pinto et al 2017, via ResearchGate By Christian Jarrett Back in the 1960s, Nobel-prize winning research shook our understanding of what it means to be a conscious entity. Epilepsy patients who’d had the thick bundle of nerves connecting their two brain hemispheres either severed or removed (as a drastic treatment for their epilepsy) responded in laboratory tasks as if they had two separate minds. It’s an unsettling idea that has appeared in psychology textbooks for decades. But dig into the original studies and you’ll find the evidence for split brains leading to split minds was mostly descr...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - May 3, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Brain Perception Textbooks Source Type: blogs

May 3, Malingering Within Forensic Assessment
Excellent article on the issue of malingering within forensic assessment. (Source: Forensic Psychology Blog)
Source: Forensic Psychology Blog - May 3, 2017 Category: Forensic Medicine Source Type: blogs

Mental Health Awareness Month
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. In researching this yearly event I was surprised to learn that it started back in the 1940’s as a weekly observance and eventually expanded to include the entire month of May. In 2013, then President Barack Obama signed a proclamation stating his commitment to mental health and confirming May as National Mental Health Awareness Month. Each year there is a different theme. Some past themes include What Mental Illness Feels Like, and Pathways to Wellness. This year’s theme is Risky Business. Mental Health America, the organization that started Mental Health Awareness Month, explains...
Source: World of Psychology - May 3, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Suzanne Kane Tags: Inspiration & Hope Mental Health and Wellness Motivation and Inspiration Mental Disorder Mental Health Awareness Mental Illness Psychiatry Psychology Stigma stigmatizing Source Type: blogs

May 3, False Confessions Information and Resources
Learn all about the psychology of false confessions. (Source: Forensic Psychology Blog)
Source: Forensic Psychology Blog - May 3, 2017 Category: Forensic Medicine Source Type: blogs

May 3, All About Forensic Psychology
A forensic psychology website designed to help anybody looking for detailed information and resources. (Source: Forensic Psychology Blog)
Source: Forensic Psychology Blog - May 3, 2017 Category: Forensic Medicine Source Type: blogs

The opioid epidemic could be cured with virtual-reality worlds that let patients escape their pain — Quartz
"It's like a crawly feeling inside," says Judy*."You get hot, then chilled, and you feel like you want to run away." The 57-year-old has short dark-grey hair and a haunted expression. She's breathless and sits with her right leg balanced up on her walking stick, rocking it back and forth as she speaks.Judy explains that she suffers from constant, debilitating pain: arthritis, back problems, fibromyalgia and daily migraines. She was a manager at a major electronics company until 2008, but can no longer work. She often hurts too much even to make it out of bed.She's taking around 20 different ...
Source: Psychology of Pain - May 3, 2017 Category: Anesthesiology Source Type: blogs

Why & How to Put on Your Oxygen Mask First
It’s critically important. Do you find yourself overwhelmed, overworked, and undervalued? Does life seem so fast paced that you can’t keep up? Are your relationships suffering because of it? And does it seem that no matter how much you try, you have a sense that all your efforts just aren’t good enough? The Importance of Self-Esteem for Lasting Relationships This is the problem with our culture. We live in a culture that has a supersize mentality. It has been drilled into us that bigger is better and striving for more is what we should be doing. It is the great American way. If you don’t have a McMansion with...
Source: World of Psychology - May 2, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Staff Tags: Publishers Relationships Self-Esteem Self-Help YourTango Anna Thea anxiety behavior Depression disease Emotional Health Emotions Feelings Impulses Love Medication needs Nurture Self Care Source Type: blogs

Is This A Circle? What The Answer Reveals About You
If pushed to choose, would you say this image contains a circle or not? • Click here for your free sample of Dr Jeremy Dean's latest ebook The Anxiety Plan: 42 Strategies For Worry, Phobias, OCD and Panic • Dr Dean is also the author of Spark: 17 Steps That Will Boost Your Motivation For Anything. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - May 2, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Psychology Source Type: blogs

How to Find Joy … Even When Life Is Feeling Awful
When we are experiencing loss and sadness in our life, everyday can feel like a struggle. Whether it is recovering from loss of a loved one, divorce, a lay-off, or anything else, we forget to take care of ourselves and find joy at the time when we need it most. Learning how to reinvent ourselves, establish our independence again, and figure out what we want during this next chapter of our lives is a bit overwhelming. Oftentimes, we may forget to see all the wonderful things that await us. So often, we get so bogged down with the stress, overwhelm, and emotional roller-coasters that we forget about all the things that w...
Source: World of Psychology - May 2, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Martha Bodyfelt Tags: Grief and Loss Habits Happiness Marriage and Divorce Mindfulness Relationships Self-Esteem Self-Help Appreciation Gratitude grieving Habit Formation joblessness joy Old Habits Optimism unemployment Worry Source Type: blogs

The Sports Most Often Used To Cover For An Affair
One in five admitted using their sport as a cover for an affair. • Click here for your free sample of Dr Jeremy Dean's latest ebook The Anxiety Plan: 42 Strategies For Worry, Phobias, OCD and Panic • Dr Dean is also the author of Spark: 17 Steps That Will Boost Your Motivation For Anything. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - May 2, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Relationships Source Type: blogs

Even Facebook Doesn ’ t Understand Facebook ’ s Algorithms
After all the hand-wringing that came from the “fake news” spectacle courtesy of Facebook’s news feed — the thing you see when you log into Facebook from your phone or laptop — one thing has become abundantly clear. Even Facebook doesn’t understand Facebook. And that’s the problem with relying on an algorithmic artificial intelligence (AI) that has been built (or more accurately, pieced together) over the years by hundreds of different developers and programmers. This all became clear to me over the past few days as I mulled over the things I learned at the latest HealtheVoices 2...
Source: World of Psychology - May 2, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: Brain and Behavior General Minding the Media Policy and Advocacy Psychology Technology Algorithm Artificial Intelligence Facebook Pew Research Center understanding facebook Source Type: blogs

Psych students score substantially lower on “dark” traits than business and law students
By Christian Jarrett There are lots of stereotypes about the kind of people in different professions. Lawyers and business people are often caricatured as ruthless and self-interested, especially when compared to the kind of folk who enter professions usually seen as caring, such as nursing or psychology. To test the truth of these stereotypes, a new study in Personality and Individual Differences surveyed the “Dark Triad” and “Big Five” traits of hundreds of Danish students enrolled to begin studying either psychology, politics, business/economics or law. The rationale was that by testing s...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - May 2, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: In Brief Occupational Personality Source Type: blogs

Best of Our Blogs: May 2, 2017
It’s Mental Health Awareness Month! How far have we come and how much further do we have to go? The stigma against mental illness is palpable. It’s there in heated political discussions. It’s present even when it’s not directly mentioned. It’s in every debate about gun laws and tip toed around in families. But there is a beacon of light despite setbacks and division. The fact that we have this website shows we’re progressing. You coming here is another sign. In fact, every time you share your story, like a post, or leave a comment you are helping to spread awareness of something that aff...
Source: World of Psychology - May 2, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Brandi-Ann Uyemura, M.A. Tags: Best of Our Blogs abuse Antisocial Personality Disorder Narcissism Narcissistic Personality Disorder Neglect Partner Physical Abuse Recovery Model Vanity Source Type: blogs

Psychologists have studied what ’s happening when music gives us chills or makes us cry
Songs that provoked tears were considered sad and calm, whereas songs triggering chills were seen as a higher energy mix of happy and sad By guest blogger Helge Hasselmann Emotions can be fleeting and superficial, for example imagine the split-second of anger you experience after missing the bus. But other “peak emotional states” are more powerful and they are accompanied by intense physical reactions, such as crying or “the chills”. Often these physical manifestations accompany extreme fear or sadness, but they can also occur when we admire a magnificent sunset or enjoy a beautiful piece of music. Now a study publ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - May 2, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Emotion guest blogger Music Source Type: blogs