Our January 3 blog entry, “The Road to Resilience” was inspired by a seven page brochure from the American Psychological Association and the Discovery Health Channel that includes a series of questions to ask yourself and describes ten ways to build resilience. An article published this week by McClatchy (the third-largest newspaper company in the… Read More »
In January, we posted an item, “Linking Emotional and Physical Health.” On March 4, 2009, the University of Kansas (KU) announced that the results of a joint study with the Gallup World Poll into the connection between emotions and health were to be presented that day at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society.… Read More »
In December, in an entry titled, “The Look On Your Face,” we described a program designed to help save children from lifelong emotional problems by helping youngsters ages 3 to 5 to read facial expressions. Children with autism have difficulty recognizing emotions. The number of children diagnosed with autism has increased nearly tenfold in the… Read More »
Raphael Cushnir is the author of, “The One Thing Holding You Back: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Connection.” This new book describes how you can incorporate emotions into your daily life and offers ways to identify and release specific emotions that have been blocking your success and well being. On the Media Clips page of… Read More »
Dr. Judith Orloff, an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA, has written a new book, “Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself From Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life.” She describes the book as “a guide to staying brave and positive during stressful times.” Dr. Orloff says, “Emotional freedom is being able to transform negative emotions into… Read More »
This photo was taken of a page in a magazine in Thailand… .
In the United States, as many as 10 million females and 1 million males are fighting a life and death battle with an eating disorder such as anorexia or bulimia. Millions more are struggling with binge eating disorder. The last week in every February is National Eating Disorders Week. The aim of NEDAwareness Week is… Read More »
This photo is from an office in Bangkok, Thailand… .
This month’s issue of the Archives of General Psychology includes the results of a seven year study investigating the association between media exposure in adolescence and depression in young adulthood. Of the 4,142 participants (47.5% female and 67.0% white) who were not depressed at baseline and who underwent follow-up assessment, 308 (7.4%) reported symptoms consistent… Read More »
Two months ago, in an entry titled, “The Look On Your Face,” this blog described a $2.7 million grant for an intervention program designed to help save children from lifelong emotional problems by helping youngsters ages 3-5 to read facial expressions. Just as reading facial expressions is important, so is recognizing and expressing one’s feelings. … Read More »