By admin on 23/01/2009
The field of Clinical Psychology integrates science, theory, and practice to understand, predict, and alleviate maladjustment, disability, and discomfort as well as to promote human adaptation, adjustment, and personal development. Clinical Psychology focuses on the intellectual, emotional, biological, psychological, social, and behavioral aspects of human functioning across the life span, in varying cultures, and at [...]
Posted in Clinical psychology | Tagged clinical psychologists, Clinical psychology
By admin on 23/01/2009
Clinical psychology includes the study and application of psychology for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically-based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and personal development. Central to its practice are psychological assessment and psychotherapy, although clinical psychologists may also engage in research, teaching, consultation, forensic testimony, and program development and administration. [...]
Posted in Clinical psychology | Tagged clinical neuropsychology, clinical psychologists, Clinical psychology, psychotherapy
By admin on 23/01/2009
From the red used in ancient rituals to today’s red hearts on Valentine’s Day, the rosy hue has been tied to carnal passions and romantic love across cultures and millennia. Now recent psychological research provides the first empirical support for society’s enduring love affair with red.
A study by two University of Rochester psychologists published in [...]
Posted in Featured | Tagged san valentino, shen valentini, valentine advices, valentine's advices, valentine's day
By admin on 18/01/2009
It seems so much easier to continue functioning in old familiar habit patterns than to make the effort to change. After all, making changes in one’s life requires identifying what different outcomes you desire and what actions needed to make those outcomes manifest. Then there is the planning, practice, persistence and progress required to make [...]
Posted in Practical Psychology | Tagged abundant life, familiar habits, I am the exception, John G. Miller, learn new habits, learning new stuff, Personal Accountability, stop living, too old to learn
By admin on 18/01/2009
Women with higher estrogen levels more likely to shop for mates, UT study finds. Estrogen, it would seem, has a good reason for being called the female sex hormone.
New research from the University of Texas suggests that women with higher levels of estrogen might feel a stronger urge than women with less of it to [...]
Posted in General | Tagged attractive woman, estrogen, estrogen levels, flirting, kissing, physical attractiveness, sex hormone
By admin on 17/01/2009
“Life is 10 percent of what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it.” – John Maxwell
It is true that we often do not have much control over what happens in our lives. We like to think we do, but things surely do not always unfold the way we would like. [...]
Posted in Social psychology | Tagged criticism, judgment, reaction, relationship, stress-filled
By admin on 17/01/2009
Researchers also urging close monitoring of elderly with hypertension during weather extremes; second study says thinking ability varies with blood pressure
The recent discovery that the blood pressure readings for senior citizens vary in reverse to the outside temperature – colder temperature equals higher blood pressure reading – may have something to do with the link [...]
Posted in Health psychology | Tagged blood pressure, cardiologists, Frank Ruschitzka, hypertension, myocardial infarction, vitamin D
By admin on 17/01/2009
Chris Reynolds’ love of bright household colors began during a trip to Mexico.
“In Mexico, everything is bright. I just like it. You do need some visual stimulation, especially in Montana during the winter,” she said.
Reynolds, a registered nurse in Bozeman, painted her sons’ room a bright lime green, and her living room is a golden [...]
Posted in Environmental psychology | Tagged appetite, blood presure, colors, mood, psychology of color
By admin on 07/01/2009
Ph.D., Psy.D., MSW, NCC etc etc? What are the credentials of people who conduct counseling and psychotherapy? This question has come up so many times, but the answer can still be pretty complicated.
In some professions, the types of training that are possible to get to that profession are very narrow. There might [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged MSW, NCC, Ph.D., Psy.D.
