Stressed to the Limit: Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Years ago people died of infectious diseases. Today many people die from conditions that are self imposed, lifestyle diseases that result from too much drinking or smoking, unhealthy diets, promiscuous sexual behavior. The big push in public health ...
Out of Balance: Personality Disorders
Personality itself can become distorted to the point that psychological dysfunction becomes tightly interwoven with an individual's patterns of behavior. Such disorders are principally developmental in origin. There are a number of psychological ill...
Out of Balance: Anxiety Disorders
Fear and anxiety are part of the normal human condition. It's when the alarm system that protects us from danger starts malfunctioning that we have anxiety disorders and the host of subcategories that fall within this category. Generalized anxiety d...
Getting It Together: Choosing a Therapist
Research shows that the style of the therapist even more than the nature of the therapy determines whether or not there is a beneficial outcome. It is important to find a therapist who is not only license and properly credentialed, but is also someo...
Getting It Together: Cognitive-Behavior Therapy
The idea of combining cognitive therapy with behavioral treatments has proven effective for many anxiety disorders. Its focus is to help people unlearn patterns that tend to maintain a disorder. Within the context of that understanding the fear subs...
Getting It Together: Optimal Approach- Psychotherapy with Biomedical Therapy, The
Controlled, multi-site field studies by NIMH indicate that the best outcome for most psychological disorders is a combination of good psychotherapy and medication. Getting people into treatment is one of the hardest things in psychiatric and psychol...
People to People: Epidemic of Media Violence
Most children are exposed to media violence. Research studies show that participants involved in immersive shooting experiences are more aggressive after the event than they were before. There is evidence that a small percentage of young people will...
Getting It Together: Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud used a technique called psychoanalysis to discover the origins of his patient's illnesses, origins thought to deeply buried in the subconscious. For years, whatever the disorder, psychoanalysis was the therapy of choice. But as t...