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Forgiveness, Not Appeasement
In recent months, the words forgiveness and diplomacy have been used interchangeably with the words appeasement and idiocy. For many reasons, the least of which is accuracy and the greatest of which is our spiritual survival, this is a grave mistake.
Huffington Post - Fri. Dec 2
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Clinical Linguistics: What a Mess! (Part 1)
On paper, clinical categories like dyslexia or specific language impairment SLI refer to cognitive disorders in which only language is impaired and that can be differentiated from other similar categories at all levels linguistic, cognitive, neurobiological, and genetic. However, things are usually less clear cut, essentially because the boundaries between disorders are blurred at all those levels ...
Psychology Today - Fri. Dec 2
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Are Your Self-Beliefs Grounded in Reality or Fantasy?
The following is an excerpt from Dr. Hoffman s next book Hack Your Motivation , due for an early 2017 release. For daily updates on motivation, learning, and performance, follow him on twitter ifoundmo .
Psychology Today - Fri. Dec 2
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Findings show significant progress against HIV epidemic in Africa; 90-90-90 go...
December 1, 2016 -- NEW YORK -- National surveys in Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Zambia reveal exceptional progress against HIV, with decreasing rates of new infection, stable numbers of people living with HIV, and more than half of all those living with HIV showing viral suppression through use of antiretroviral medication. For those on antiretroviral medication, viral suppression is close to 90 percent ...
EurekAlert - Thu. Dec 1
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New in the Hastings Center Report
Ethics of crowdfunding for medical care, an argument for fewer clinical trials, and more in the November-December 2016 issue. Crowdfunding for Medical Care Ethical Issues in an Emerging Health Care Funding Practice Jeremy Snyder Crowdfunding for medical care, which has become relatively common, has received a lot of media attention, but little has been written about the ethical issues that it rais ...
EurekAlert - Thu. Dec 1
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Study: Restaurants not good at explaining risks of undercooked meat to customers
Front-line staff, such as servers in restaurants, are often trusted with providing customers with food safety information regarding their meals. A challenge to the food-service industry is that these positions have high turnover, relatively low wages and servers are focused primarily on providing patrons with a positive experience. And new research shows that this poses a problem. A recent study f ...
EurekAlert - Thu. Dec 1
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Correlates of overweight and obesity among adolescents with bipolar disorder i...
Washington, DC, December 1, 2016 - Bipolar disorder is one of the most disabling medical conditions among adolescents worldwide. Similarly, being overweight or obese is common in adolescents and is known to confer risk for cardiovascular disease and other poor health outcomes in adulthood. As a result, the intersection of bipolar disorder and overweight is a matter of clinical and public health co ...
EurekAlert - Thu. Dec 1
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Use your words: Written prisoner interactions predict whether they'll clean up...
COLUMBUS, Ohio - The evolution of how prisoners in substance-abuse programs communicate is a good indicator of whether they ll return to crime, new research has found. The relationships between prisoners enrolled in therapeutic communities, groups that focus on rehabilitation from drug and alcohol addiction, are key to those programs effectiveness, said researcher Keith Warren, an associate profes ...
EurekAlert - Thu. Dec 1
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Cancer Patients Are Finding Anxiety Relief In Psychedelic Mushrooms
Dinah Bazer, a 69-year-old mother and retired information systems worker living in Brooklyn, credits psychedelics with saving her life.
Huffington Post - Thu. Dec 1
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5 Reasons Why It's Hard To Go Home For The Holidays
For a lot of people going home for the holidays is exciting, and filled with nothing but cheer and good times.
Huffington Post - Thu. Dec 1
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Can of Worms? Pandora’s Box? Divulging Your Dark Secrets
As a psychologist, over the years I ve seen clients show tremendous ambivalence about bringing up certain topics. Such anxiety-filled reluctance is particularly common when the subject relates to unresolved feelings of fear , trepidation, guilt and shame . Yet ironically, their resistance to prying open what they regard and sometimes label a can of worms is a cue that the matter, if it s to be rem ...
Psychology Today - Thu. Dec 1
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Inside the Bungled Case That Spawned Sex Offender Registries
Twenty-seven years ago, a perfect storm struck a small town in central Minnesota, when a stranger jumped out of the shadows and snatched an 11-year-old boy out bicycle-riding with friends. It was the rarest of crimes. But the Oct. 22, 1989 abduction of Jacob Wetterling struck at a pivotal moment in U.S. history, igniting a conflagration that still burns today. Stranger-danger hysteria was sweeping ...
Psychology Today - Thu. Dec 1
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