It's Personal: Sexual Orientation
Sexual orientation refers to a person's preference of partners, a continuum that ranges from preference for members of the opposite sex (heterosexuality) to preference for members of the same sex (homosexuality). More pe..
It's Personal: Teaching Children About Sexuality
Teaching children about sexuality begins at home. Even if parents ignore the subject they are sending a message. Sexuality is not a subject parents can afford to be silent about; society is too obsessed with it.
Links Between Addictions
Dean Hamer, Director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the National Cancer Institute, discusses the fact that, "...many different addictions tend to go together." He explains that, "...the probable reason is t..
Lives in Balance: Aftermath of a Shooting
Nancy Bohl, a psychologist trained to deal with the aftermath of traumatic events, recounts the scene in Riverside, CA, the site of a major shooting at City Hall. She and members of her counseling team debriefed survivor..
Lives in Balance: Developing Positive Stress Response Techniques
The Hardiness Institute, founded in the early 1980s, is helping people develop qualities that will allow them to deal with stress. In addition to such techniques, some people find it helpful to use meditation or prayer a..
Lives in Balance: How Traumatic Events Change the Lives of Survivors
Two survivors of the Riverside, California city hall shootings in 1998 talk about how the event changed their lives, from feelings of vulnerability to increased gratitude for life and the love of friends and family.
Lives in Balance: Memories of Traumatic Events
Survivors of traumatic events often complain about the insensitivity of the news media in covering crises. Although the passage of time will lessen the intensity of an event, it doesn't erase it. Anniversary dates unleas..
Lives in Balance: People Who Respond Positively to Stress
Why is it that some people seem to deal with stress more effectively than others? In conducting a longitudinal study of this phenomenon with workers whose jobs were threatened by the break up of A T & T, Dr. Salvatore Ma..
Lives in Balance: Physical and Behavioral Reactions to Stress
When faced with a stressful situation, chronic or acute, the body mobilizes to respond in a flight or fight reaction. If nothing is done to ameliorate the situation, the body may experience wear and tear diseases that re..
Lives in Balance: Stress--A Necessary Part of Life
Stress is not only a part of everyday life, it is necessary for life. It is only when stress becomes chronic that it becomes a problem, particularly if nothing is done about it. The more chronic stress you have, the less..