TraumaMar 2, 2015
Stress, Trauma & Resilience Research
Researchers, clinicians, and educational specialists at NYU Langone’s Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry study ...
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Diversity & CultureFeb 24, 2015
State should prioritize LGBTQ mental health funding
As a person who works in LGBT mental health, I am well versed in the conversation of health disparities and increased rates of ...
WorkplaceFeb 20, 2015
Acting ‘out of character’ in the workplace
Look around your workplace – and ask yourself which colleagues you’d describe as extravert and which as introvert. Perhaps ...
HIPAA Breach Notification RuleFeb 10, 2015
No encryption means HIPAA breach for 45K
Some 45,000 people are getting HIPAA breach notification letters after a mental health provider failed to encrypt laptops ...
Torture and persecution documentationFeb 4, 2015
The Psychology of Torture
But my critique differs from the majority in one key way: I believe that the reason these two psychologists ended up doing what they did and that the APA allowed it to happen, has to do with ...
Cognitive PsychologyJan 27, 2015
Keeping an open mind about consciousness research
It’s not often you find philosophers of consciousness, neuroscientists and their naysayers happily on the same page. As a group ...
Cognitive behavioral therapyJan 14, 2015
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
When my grandfather returned "shell-shocked" from the Pacific theater during World War II, there was no formal diagnosis of "PTSD ...
Health PsychologyJan 13, 2015
Why empathy has a beneficial impact on others in medicine: unifying theories
The past decades have seen an explosion of studies on empathy in various academic domains including affective neuroscience ...
WorkplaceJan 11, 2015
Workplace Accommodation Policy
The purpose of this Policy, and any related procedures and guidelines, is to set standards for compliance with the university’s ...
Positive PsychologyJan 7, 2015
Older But Happier? 5 Amazing Findings from Recent Research
I celebrated a big birthday recently. I won’t say which birthday, but let’s just say it was big enough that from now on I’m ...
HIV psychologyDec 16, 2014
Combining social media and behavioral psychology could lead to more HIV testing
Social media such as Twitter and Facebook can be valuable in the fight against HIV in the United States, where research has ...
Humanistic psychologyDec 7, 2014
Humanistic and Positive Psychology
Positive psychology has been successful in drawing attention to the fact that psychologists had overlooked what makes life worth ...
CounselingDec 6, 2014
Counseling Psychology (Ph.D.) at GSE
Multiculturalism and social justice are foundational to our program. The program's faculty has wide-ranging research interests ...
Mood and emotional disordersDec 6, 2014
Treatment of Psychological Diseases and Disorders
According to the most recent Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM 5), there are nearly 400 different ...
Mild cognitive impairmentNov 25, 2014
Use It or Lose It
Many of us are interested in sustaining or improving on our mental fitness and staving off cognitive decline as we age.
Binge-eating disorderNov 6, 2014
Understanding Binge Eating Disorder
Discussion of eating disorders often center around people whose disordered eating causes them to lose unhealthy quantities of ...
NeuropsychologyOct 27, 2014
Best Global Universities for Neuroscience and Behavior
See the U.S. News rankings for the world's top universities in Neuroscience and Behavior. Compare the academic programs at the world's best universities.
PersonalityOct 27, 2014
Broader horizons for animal personality research
Personality is at the forefront of current behavioral ecological research. Most research concerns boldness, aggressiveness ...
AddictionSep 30, 2014
Study: Public Feels More Negative Toward People With Drug Addiction Than Those With Mental Illness
People are significantly more likely to have negative attitudes toward those suffering from drug addiction than those with mental ...
PersonalitySep 28, 2014
Personality over a lifetime
Seeing a middle-aged man in a conservative business suit sitting next to a chap with blue hair and a silver ring through his nose ...
AddictionSep 24, 2014
Behavioral Economics of Addiction
Behavioral economics provides a framework to understand when and how people make mistakes. The new field of behavioral economics ...
PsychologySep 16, 2014
Careers in Psychology
Interest in studying psychology has grown enormously in recent years. Not only is psychology a fascinating subject to study, but ...
Forensic PsychologySep 15, 2014
Forensic Psychology: Is It the Career for Me?
I get many emails and phone calls from students interested in pursuing forensic psychology as a career. There is surprisingly ...
Mild cognitive impairmentSep 15, 2014
Five Risk Factors for MCI
Who is most likely to develop MCI? In this posting, we talk about five risk factors for MCI and what you can do about (many of) them.
Parenting capacityAug 29, 2014
ADHD: Behavioral Parenting Supported (Again) By Research
Children with ADHD struggle from the earliest ages to control their actions and pay attention. They forget to turn-off the TV, to ...
Social MediaAug 26, 2014
Social Media and the ‘Spiral of Silence’
A major insight into human behavior from pre-internet era studies of communication is the tendency of people not to speak up ...
AI & TechnologyAug 26, 2014
BCBSMA offers members OneHealth's behavioral health app-enabled program
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts has added a mobile and online offering, called OneHealth, to bolster its mental health ...
ProfessionAug 12, 2014
Therapy in Prison: Where Legal, Ethics, and Morals Collide
Art therapists in clinical settings may find themselves in the crossroads where legal issues, ethical considerations, and moral ...
ProfessionJul 17, 2014
Ethics in Forensic Art Therapy: Defined and Conquered
In my first blog post last August, "Trials of Art Therapy: An Introduction," I introduced a case where I provided expert witness ...
Cognitive PsychologyJul 4, 2014
The Rational Model and Online Decision Making
Online decision making is a concept that describes the cognitive process that goes in the mind of customers before they make a ...