I have been blogging my ideas for American Counseling Association. Help spread awareness about the importance of mental health! Many great authors (all therapists) on there so check it out!! :
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How little sleep can you get away with? April 2011
Abercrombie Bikini Tops:Threat to Girl\’s Mental Health? March 2011
Smoking Pot May Hasten Onset of Mental Illness February 2011
Depression on the Rise in College Students January 2010
Harsh Winters Have Chilling Effects on Mood February 2011
Most ADHD Kids Have Multiple Conditions February 2011
Health Benefits of Falling and Staying in Love February 2011
How Handwriting Trains the Brain October 2010
Suicides Put Light on Pressures of Gay Teenagers October 2010
Holocaust Haunts Survivors October 2010
What Can Play Tricks on Your Memory October 2010
Minority Women with Cancer Need Social Support October 2010
Can a Virtual World Help Young Adults with Mental Health Issues? October 2010
Psychiatric Experts Assess Parental Alienation October 2010
Working Yourself to Death October 2010
ADHD ‘is Not Bad Behaviour September 2010
Success Stories with Challenging Clients September 2010
Kenny McKinley’s Death Shines Light on Black Men’s Struggle with Suicide September 2010
Broncos Never Saw Signs that McKinley was Suicidal September 2010
Better Health, With a Little Help from Our Friends September 2010
Psychologist Shows Why we “Choke” and How to Avoid It September 2010
Why So Many People Can’t Make Decisions September 2010
Consummate love =
Commitment, Intimacy & Passion
Wikipedia Definition; Sternberg’s Book
The Triangular Theory
Robert J. Sternberg’s
triangular theory of love considers three independent components of a complete, enduring, and romantic love he calls “consummate love”. The three components are intimacy, passion, and commitment, with these definitions:
Intimacy is defined as feelings of being close to and bonded with a partner. It requires exposing vulnerabilities. Agreement with the statements: “I feel close to my significant other” and “I receive considerable emotional support from my significant other” measure intimacy.
Passion refers to the arousal you experience toward your partner, including sexual attraction. An example is agreement with the statements: “I find my significant other to be personally attractive” and “I fantasize about my significant other”.
Commitment consists of making two decisions; one, that you love your partner, and two, that you desire to maintain that love and stay with your partner. It is a long-lasting and stable concern for the other. A person committed to a relationship tends to agree with the statement: “I will always feel a strong responsibility for my significant other.”
Quoted from: http://www.emotionalcompetency.com/love.htm
Read this article by Sternberg himself!!-http://www.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/spring2007/features/happily.html
Nutrition 101: Food and Depression
People who are depressed usually stop eating or overeat, and stop caring. Nutrition, however, can play a key role, both in the onset, severity, and duration of depression, including daily mood swings. Unfortunately, the depression and nutrition link is a catch-22. When you eat better, you feel less depression. But when you experience depression, whether clinical depression or manic depression, you tend to eat worse.
Eating well for depression is similar to advice given for the general public:
v Eat low fat, good quality protein at each meal
v Choose complex carbohydrates, whole grains, brown rice, fruits and vegis
v Choose low fat or non-dairy products
v Eat fish, especially those high in Omega-3 fatty acids, at least twice weekly
v Include nuts, legumes, beans (even canned beans) in your diet
v Make it a goal to eat at least 5-9 servings of fruits and vegis daily
v Use olive oil or canola oil instead of other oils and fats
v Always eat breakfast- have some cereal, milk and fruit, or eggs and fruit
v Have healthy snacks in between meals such as crisp bread or baby carrots with hummus, or some low fat cheese and tomatoes, yogurt, or some nuts and fresh fruit
v Avoid “junk” food or overly processed foods
v Avoid excessive caffeine above 3-4 cups daily (less if you are small)
v Remember alcohol acts a s a depressant
v Exercise!!
If you cannot manage, ask a friend or family member to go shopping for you. If your friend is willing to cook for you, ask them to prepare some healthy meals. If not, stick to salads and healthy soups or meals that are easy to throw together.-Just Like Me-RD
A man’s best friend? There may have been more truth to that saying than realized… ; ) -Just Like Me-SD
Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy
Psychiatric Service Dogs Society
American Humane Association- Animal Assisted Therapy
Guidelines for Animal Assisted Therapy
Center for the Human-Animal Bond
Psychiatric Service Dogs, Very Special Dogs Indeed
Service Dogs Help Traumatized Veterans Heal
Is Animal Assisted Therapy Really the Cat’s Meow?
Animal Assisted Therapy for Children with Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Animal Assisted Therapy: A Guide for Professional Counselors
14 Secrets to Career Change Success: http://money.usnews.com/money/careers/slideshows/14-secrets-to-career-change-success
Employers Prefer Hiring From State Schools: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703597204575483730506372718.html?mod=WSJ_Careers_CareerJournal_2
When Job Interview Questions Become Too Personal: http://blogs.wsj.com/juggle/2010/09/13/when-job-interview-questions-become-too-personal/
Young Womens’ Pay Exceeds Male Peers’: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704421104575463790770831192.html?mod=WSJ_Careers_CareerJournal_4
Making an Easy Re-Entry Into Work Force: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124510378792116513.html?mod=WSJ_Careers_CareerJournal_5
Hiring a Resume Writer? Ask These Questions First: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704868604575433791872911672.html?mod=WSJ_Careers_CareerJournal_4
Forget What You Know about Good Study Habits: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/health/views/07mind.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=homepage
Tips for Effective Networking: http://blog.simplyhired.com/2010/09/tips-for-effective-networking.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=sept9
Best 50 Jobs in America: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bestjobs/2009/snapshots/23.html
Ace that Job Interview :http://money.cnn.com/2010/09/13/pf/saving/job_interview_tips/index.htm
Ivy League Education No Longer Worth It?: http://money.cnn.com/2010/09/14/pf/college/ivy_league_worth.fortune/index.htm
How to Tell When Your Boss is Lying: http://www.economist.com/node/16847818
Tame Your Finances: 11 Tips for Grad School Money Management: http://apa.org/gradpsych/2010/09/finances.aspx
Fear Not: Common Worries: http://apa.org/gradpsych/2010/09/cover-fear.aspx
How Do I Become Culturaly Competent?: http://apa.org/gradpsych/2010/09/culturally-competent.aspx
How the Recession Can Inspire You to Chase Your Dreams: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wired-success/201009/how-the-recession-can-inspire-you-chase-your-dreams
Customize your Resume to Help Land the Interview: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/tame-your-terrible-office-tyrant/201009/customize-your-resume-help-land-the-interview
How to Keep a Job for Life: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-ethical-professor/201007/how-keep-job-life
Demistifying Psychiatry: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/demystifying-psychiatry/201005/is-the-training-psychiatrist-more-neurologist-or-psychologist
The Best Career We Could Ask For: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-beauty-prescription/201001/the-best-career-we-could-ask
Sandtray Therapy Institute: http://www.sandtraytherapyinstitute.com/
Sandplay Therapists of America: http://www.sandplay.org/index.htm
Sandtray Network: http://www.sandtray.org/
Canadian Association for Sandplay Therapy: http://www.sandplay.ca/
Sand Tray Therapy and the Healing Process in Trauma and Grief Counseling: http://counselingoutfitters.com/vistas/vistas08/Webber.htm
Group Sandtray Therapy with Preadolescents Identified with Behavioral Difficulties: http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4878/
Impact of Group Sandtray Therapy on the Self-Esteem of Young Adolescent Girls: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a793252091~db=all~jumptype=
Sand Play Therapy with US Soldiers Diagnosed with PTSD and their Families: http://www.counseling.org/Resources/Library/VISTAS/vistas06/vistas06.13.pdf
American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry: http://www.aagpgpa.org/
American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry: http://journals.lww.com/ajgponline/pages/default.aspx
Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology:http://jgp.sagepub.com/
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1166;jsessionid=A1A613ABE5BFEB1E7A1199471B8F9B04.d03t01
International College of Geriatric Psychoneuropharamacology:http://www.icgp.org/
Journal of the British Geriatrics Society:http://www.bgs.org.uk/Publications/age_ageing.htm
American Geriatrics Society: http://www.americangeriatrics.org/
Psychotherapy Changing Lives of Elderly Patients: http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/content/36/2/12.1.full
Group Therapy for the Elderly: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/572317
Depression: Elderly-http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/depression-elderly/psychotherapy.html
Psychotherapy and Aging: Elderly and Psychotherapists: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6X02-4NDWR7R-D&_user=4420034&_coverDate=02%2F28%2F1999&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_origin=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1461174241&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000063005&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=4420034&md5=1e2b30dce3941873ba7c439737d5810a&searchtype=a
Anxiety Often Missed in the Elderly: http://www.webmd.com/anxiety-panic/guide/20061101/anxiety-missed-elderly
Depression in the Elderly: http://www.webmd.com/depression/guide/depression-elderly
Older Adults: Depression and Suicide Facts: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/older-adults-depression-and-suicide-facts-fact-sheet/index.shtml
New Brochure on Anxiety and Older Adults: http://www.gmhfonline.org/gmhf/news/news_story.asp?id=54
Tell your story through words, pictures–art of any kind. Art heals what ails us.- Just Like Me- SD
Narrative Therapy Institute: http://www.narrativetherapyinstitute.com/
Narraive Therapy Centre Toronto: http://www.narrativetherapycentre.com/
Dulwich Centre: http://www.dulwichcentre.com.au/
Jerusalem Narrative Therapy Institute: http://jnti.net/
Narrative Therapy Library: http://www.narrativetherapylibrary.com/catalogue.asp?id=3
Narrative Therapy Over Time: http://www.apa.org/pubs/videos/4310879.aspx
Narrative Therapy: http://www.apa.org/pubs/videos/4310810.aspx
Writing to Wellness: Using an Open Journal in Narrative Therapy-http://www.atypon-link.com/GPI/doi/abs/10.1521/jsyt.2008.27.2.60
Journal Writing as Therapy: http://www.livestrong.com/article/17803-journal-writing-therapy/
Journal Therapy: http://www.journaltherapy.com/rosen.htm
Dialogical Journal Writing as ‘Self-therapy’: ‘I Matter’-http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a913087805~db=all~jumptype=rss
Narrative Letter Writing: http://www.cfsofcentralmb.mb.ca/file/NarrativeLetterWriting.PDF
Catharsis:
APA’s Definition: “The process of expressing strongly felt but usually repressed emotions”:
Wikipedia Definition ; Merriam Webster ; Find Articles
Most of us know the word “catharsis”, but mistakenely attribute it solely to Sigmund Freud. In fact, Joseph Breuer coined the term and was the first to start practicing talk therapy. Freud looked up to Breuer and learned a lot from him! Freud made the process famous through his life and now this is a word used in common day language. What is your method of catharsis? – Just Like Me- SD
Anger and Catharsis: Myth, Metaphor or Reality?: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evil-deeds/200909/anger-and-catharsis-myth-metaphor-or-reality
Catharsis in Counseling Psychology: http://www.europeanschoolofpsychotherapy.com/ESIP/Publications_PJH_files/CATHARSIS.pdf
A Survey of Psychologists’ Perspectives on Catharsis: www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a923739820
Online Journal Articles : http://online.sagepub.com/search/results?submit=yes&src=hw&andorexactfulltext=and&fulltext=catharsis