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Spirituality, Health and Well-Being

Recently, a team of researchers at the University of Missouri conducted a survey that suggested spirituality often enhances a person’s overall health, including their mental health. The finding adds new dimensions to prior studies also conducted at the university which found that the mental health of those recovering from various medical conditions, such as cancer, stroke, and neurological

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Diagnosing for Accuracy vs. Diagnosing for Reimbursement

WEBClinicians can delineate a concern that’s ‘the focus of treatment’ but still doesn’t merit a formal clinical diagnostic label. Many clinicians are hesitant to use this code, however, …

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Illeism and Narcissism

WEBOverseen by an international advisory board of distinguished academic faculty and mental health professionals with decades of clinical and research experience in the US, UK and …

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Diagnostic Criteria for ‘Mental Disorders’: Treatment, …

WEBThe notion of a ‘mental disorder’ rests upon a particular model of so-called ‘normal’ functioning and observable deviations from that norm; this model fits only …

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How Long Is Too Long In Therapy

WEBThe goal of therapy is not just to feel better for the brief time you’re “venting” but to get better mentally, emotionally, behaviorally, etc., and for the long term. …

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Understanding “Splitting” as a Psychological Term

WEBSplitting is a term that came out of classical (psychoanalytical or psychodynamic) schools of thought and refers to an unconscious ego defense …

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Mental Disorders and Accountability: Is Everyone a Victim

WEBThe fact that mental health “disorders” are primarily classified by behavioral description (instead of by the disease process thought to underlie the behavior) only …

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Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology – Self …

WEBWelcome to the Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology – Self Report (QIDS-SR) Measuring 16 factors across 9 different criterion domains for major …

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Committed to Making a Difference: The INFJ Personality Type

WEBBeing primarily introverts and highly intuitive, INFJs are those rare (statistically, the rarest) folks who seem to be unexplainably aware of the hidden …

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Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D)

WEBOne of the most common screening tests for helping an individual to determine his or her depression quotient, the Center for Epidemiologic Studies …

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Advantages of Email Counselling and Online Therapy in General

WEBOpportunity to Reflect. The asynchronous nature of counselling by email provides both client and counsellor the opportunity to reflect on thoughts, feelings and …

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Putting Your Cyber Face On

WEBThe NY times article Putting your best cyber face forward made me chuckle. Using Facebook is indeed like being back at school again. Social scientists researching …

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Cost-Benefit Analysis in CBT: An Exercise in Behavioral Economics

WEBA thorough and accurate analysis will usually reveal how the benefits of a behavior — even the benefits of a problem behavior — have been outweighing the cost …

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My Philosophy of Supervision

WEBIn my view, the ultimate aim of supervision is to enable supervisees to enhance the service they offer to clients, and to safeguard and enhance their own well …

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Our Gluttonous Age: When We Live to Eat, We Die

WEBSome Christian religions rank gluttony among the most “deadly” of sins. All these traditions advance the same notion: when it comes to food, we’re supposed to eat …

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Is Corporal Punishment a Cause of Mental Illness

WEBAlthough the correlation between harsh childhood physical discipline and mental illness in adulthood is strong, it can’t be directly inferred that there is a causal link …

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Money, Happiness and Financial Stability

WEBThat’s according to new research suggesting that it isn’t employment by itself which contributes to happiness. There’s an old saying that money can’t buy happiness. …

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Winning at the Game of Life

WEBGames can be pretty instructive. There are a host of benefits to playing games, ones we can probably all figure out. Depending on the type of game being …

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Why Occupy Wall Street

WEBBy now almost everyone is familiar with the phenomenon commonly termed the “Occupy movement.” There are various groups of protesters, often called “the 99ers” …

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Disadvantages of Counselling or Therapy by Email

WEBTalk to a Psychiatrist or Therapist Online. Hardware or software failure or internet service failure can impact the online availability of both counsellor and client. …

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“Just the Baby Blues

WEBI am writing this while my baby naps. Looking through the Daily Mental Health News section on this site, an article catches my eye: Postpartum depression …

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