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Back To School: NAMI Education Classes Starting For Families Of People With Mental Illness; Some Available At VA Facilities - The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Family-to-Family Education Program offers new fall classes for caregivers of individuals living with mental illness. Classes are available at a number of locations in communities across the country, including some Department of Veterans Affairs facilities...
Minister Moloney's Speaking Notes At The Donore Avenue Community Action On Suicide Group's Launch Of Second Annual Suicide Prevention Week, Ireland - Thank: Alicia Gayson for the invitation to launch Community Action on Suicide's second Annual Suicide Prevention Week. The presentations and discussions today will give you an increased awareness of the issue of self injury...
Dalai Lama Trust To Fund UW-Madison Research On Healthy Minds - Securing research funding is always welcome news, but this one came with a unique twist. The Center for Investigating Healthy Minds (CIHM) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has received a grant from the Dalai Lama's personal trust to further its research mission...
Depression Affects A Fifth Of All Fathers - A fifth of fathers and more than a third of mothers experience depression before their child turns 12 years old, with the highest rates in the first year after birth, according to a new study from the Medical Research Council (MRC)...
Getting Drunk Key To Bonding For Young People - For many young people getting drunk is key to being accepted as part of a social group...
Vitamin B Tablets Help Prevent Dementia And Alzheimer's Disease - Elderly individuals with mild cognitive impairment who take huge doses of B vitamins everyday may reduce the rate at which their brains shrink by 50%, resulting in a much slower progression toward dementia, and eventually Alzheimer's disease, say researchers from Oxford University, England, in an article published in Plos One (Public Library of Science One), a peer-reviewed medical journal...
USU-HJF Military Medicine Symposium - Three prominent speakers have been added to the slate of experts - which includes military medical leaders - for the USU-HJF Military Medicine Symposium: Advancing Public-Private Partnerships, on September 23, 2010, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C...
Suicide Prevention Program To Be Tested In High Schools - With students returning to classes, University of Rochester Medical Center researchers are beginning a large, long-term study of the effectiveness of a unique suicide prevention program in high schools across New York and North Dakota. The study of the program called Sources of Strength, led by Peter Wyman, Ph.D...
Does The Impact Of Psychological Trauma Cross Generations? - In groups with high rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), such as the survivors of the Nazi Death Camps, the adjustment problems of their children, the so-called "Second Generation", have received attention by researchers. Studies suggested that some symptoms or personality traits associated with PTSD may be more common in the Second Generation than the general population...
In Male/Female Twins, Females Benefit From Improved Mental Rotation Performance - Having a sibling, especially a twin, impacts your life. Your twin may be your best friend or your biggest rival, but throughout life you influence each other...

February 5, 2006

Accredited Doctoral Programs in Professional Psychology

Filed under: Career and Employment, Education, North America — Admin @ 11:57 am

(PUBLIC NOTICE: The following notice is provided as a public service by the APA Office of Program Consultation and Accreditation consistent with a web listing protocol recommended by the Association of Specialized and Professional Accreditors (ASPA).
This section of the APA Office of Program Consultation and Accreditation website contains the only official web list of professional [...]

Marky Lloyd’s Careers in Psychology Page

Filed under: Career and Employment, North America — Admin @ 11:47 am

Welcome to the Careers in Psychology page. My primary motive in developing this site is to help undergraduate students learn what they can do with a degree in psychology. (Graduate students may find information of interest in the section, “Selected Web Sites Containing Career and Graduate School Information of Interest to Psychology Majors.”) The resources [...]

February 2, 2006

A Brief Overview of the Psychology of Money (within the Context of Marriage and Divorce)

Filed under: Life Questions and Answers, North America — Admin @ 11:43 pm

For almost all the couples I provide divorce mediation services to, ongoing quarrels and differences over money are frequently cited as one of the primary reasons for their marriage problems. I also find that couples are even more uncomfortable talking about their differences with regard to money than almost any other issue, including sexual dissatisfaction. [...]

A Brief Overview of the Psychology of Money (within the Context of Marriage and Divorce)

Filed under: Life Questions and Answers, North America — Admin @ 11:43 pm

For almost all the couples I provide divorce mediation services to, ongoing quarrels and differences over money are frequently cited as one of the primary reasons for their marriage problems. I also find that couples are even more uncomfortable talking about their differences with regard to money than almost any other issue, including sexual dissatisfaction. [...]

The Love Test

Filed under: North America, Psychological Tests — Admin @ 11:41 pm

When it comes to matters of the heart, what you know about yourself may be your best guide to finding, and keeping, the relationship to last a lifetime.
Just as you have a personality type when it comes to your everyday existence, you also have a love personality, the personality that takes over when you’re in [...]

Marital Satisfaction : Recent Research

Marital satisfaction is sought, or expected, by most married individuals. Unfortunately, the U.S. Bureau of Census in 1992 reported that 52% of marriages end in divorce (Fowers, Montel, and Olson p. 103). This fact, along with other stimulants, has caused researchers to investigate the influences on marital satisfaction. Many predictors of stability and satisfaction in [...]

Marriage Math

In the world of relationships, the most important numbers to learn are: five to one. That is the ratio of positive interactions to negative ones that predicts whether a marriage will last or become one of the sad statistics of divorce.
It isn’t that you can’t argue with your spouse. But the couples that make it [...]

Psych out: Psychology research experiments test students’ patience

Patty Canale didn’t know what to think when she signed her name to a list of participants for an upcoming psychology experiment.
“I thought maybe I was performing an experiment,” said Canale, a freshman in The College of Arts and Sciences. I didn’t know that I’d be hooked up to electrodes and have to fill out [...]

The Psychology of Desperation

Filed under: Clinical Psychology, North America, Personality Psychology — Admin @ 11:31 pm

Our newspapers and televisions are rife with stories of crisis, violence and crime, echoing common concerns across the nation. As first responders and primary caregivers we are often confronted with situations calling upon personal skills and coping abilities which may be taxed by an onslaught of competing demands. Navigating those incidents which challenge our abilities [...]

The Psychology of Desperation

Filed under: Clinical Psychology, North America, Personality Psychology — Admin @ 11:30 pm

Our newspapers and televisions are rife with stories of crisis, violence and crime, echoing common concerns across the nation. As first responders and primary caregivers we are often confronted with situations calling upon personal skills and coping abilities which may be taxed by an onslaught of competing demands. Navigating those incidents which challenge our abilities [...]

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