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History of Integrated Treatment for Dual Diagnosis
Dual diagnosis is a syndrome wherein somebody has a severe mental illness in addition to a substance abuse problem. Discover how a clinician and treatment team are needed to treat dual diagnosis with information from a licensed mental health counselor in this free video on psychology.
Types of Dual Diagnosis
Types of dual diagnosis include chemical dependency and eating disorders. Learn how dual diagnosis disorders are often only treated for one-half of the illness with information from a licensed mental health counselor in this free video on psychology.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
The fundamental attribution error theory states that we tend to explain our behavior by assigning attributes to the cause of the behavior. Find out how the fundamental attribution error underestimates the role of outside influences with information from a licensed mental health counselor in this free video on psychology.
Mental processes – Cognitive
The sort of mental processes described as cognitive are largely influenced by research which has successfully used this paradigm in the past, likely starting with Thomas Aquinas, who divided the study of behavior into two broad categories: cognitive (how we know the world), and affect (feelings and emotions). Consequently, this description tends to apply to [...]
When It Comes To Intelligence, Size Matters
A collaborative study led by researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), McGill University has demonstrated a positive link between cognitive ability and cortical thickness in the brains of healthy 6 to 18 year olds. The correlation is evident in regions that integrate information from different parts of the brain. The imaging study published this [...]
Music’s positive effects
A recent volume of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences takes a closer look at how music evolved and how we respond to it. Contributors to the volume believe that animals such as birds, dolphins and whales make sounds analogous to music out of a desire to imitate each other. This ability [...]
HOW THE BRAIN WORKS
It’s important to understand the complexity of the human brain. The human brain weighs only three pounds but is estimated to have about 100 billion cells. It is hard to get a handle on a number that large (or connections that small). Let’s try to get an understanding of this complexity by comparing it with [...]
Dreaming about Dying
Generally speaking, death cannot be represented in dreams as such, as it is no psychic content to be experienced, lived. Hence the conclusion that, when dreams about dying do occur, we have to interpret this in a completely different direction. Dreams about dying are not infrequent. It has been conclude that such dreams are also [...]
Women with more estrogen are more likely to be attractive
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 [...]
How psychology can become true science?
Extant conclusions by psychologists, such as Freud, Adler, Jung, Horney, Fromm, Laing, Skinner, Maslow, Allport, Lewin, Carl Rogers, Eysenck, Harry Stack Sullivan, Ellis, Becks etc are interesting speculations on the nature of human behavior but not science. None of those conjectures have been demonstrated as true. It is only when we can show the self [...]