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The New Face of Health Care: Education, Improvement, Prevention |
| Monday, May 07, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Our Psychology
According to the American Psychological Association's Practice Organization, our health care industry is changing in dramatic, welcome ways: from a system strictly focused on treatin... more
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Autistic Children and their Siblings Have Trouble Reading Emotions |
| Monday, May 07, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Parenting
Not only do autistic children often have trouble reading visual and emotional cues in conversation, but the social behaviors of their siblings may also be directly affected by the condition. Using mag... more
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Government Looks to Revise Special Ed Policy |
| Friday, May 04, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Parenting
In order to better determine which public school students belong in special education classes and shift attentions accordingly, the United States government plans to devote a greater portion of its ... more
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Government Looks to Revise Special Ed Policy |
| Friday, May 04, 2007 By Blog Meister |
Category: Special Education
In order to better determine which public school students belong in special education classes and shift attentions accordingly, the United States government plans to devote a greater portion... more
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Senators Propose Military Mental Health 'Centers of Excellence' |
| Friday, May 04, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Our Psychology
In an encouraging development related to this week's story about insufficient mental health care for returning active duty soldiers and their families, senators Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Barbara Bo... more
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Soldiers and Their Families Not Receiving Sufficient Mental Health Care |
| Thursday, May 03, 2007 By Blog Master |
Category: For Families
In the latest update in an unacceptably slow-moving crisis, the American Psychiatric Association reports that the military has no well-coordinated plan to provide much needed mental health, recovery... more
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Mentally Ill Have Significantly Reduced Life Expectancies |
| Thursday, May 03, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Our Psychology
A disturbing new report that has emerged from a meeting of state hospital directors from around the country estimates that the life expectancies of patients suffering from some form of mental illness ... more
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One Step Forward, Two Steps Back |
| Thursday, May 03, 2007 By Blog Meister |
Category: Eating Healthy/ Eating Disorders
We spent some time yesterday patting West Virginia on the back for their efforts to revamp and revitalize gym class in hopes of getting kids interested in physical fitness. Today however, West Virgini... more
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One Step Forward, Two Steps Back |
| Wednesday, May 02, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
We spent some time yesterday patting West Virginia on the back for their efforts to revamp and revitalize gym class in hopes of getting kids interested in physical fitness. Today however, West Virgini... more
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Soldiers and Their Families Not Receiving Sufficient Mental Health Care |
| Wednesday, May 02, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Our Psychology
In the latest update in an unacceptably slow-moving crisis, the American Psychiatric Association reports that the military has no well-coordinated plan to provide much needed mental health, recovery... more
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This Ain't Your Granddaddy's Gym Class |
| Tuesday, May 01, 2007 By Blog Meister |
Category: Eating Healthy/ Eating Disorders
The realities of obesity in America, and the public hand-wringing with which it has been met, have led to all manners of finger pointing. But few single institutions have been as vilified as the publi... more
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Perfectionists More Susceptible to Anxiety, Fatigue |
| Tuesday, May 01, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Stress
The fact that individuals with perfectionist dispositions are more easily upset by undesired or stressful elements in their daily lives is not simply a matter of temperament, according to a recent stu... more
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This Ain't Your Granddaddy's Gym Class |
| Tuesday, May 01, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Parenting
The realities of obesity in America, and the public hand-wringing with which it has been met, have led to all manners of finger pointing. But few single institutions have been as vilified as the publi... more
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Health, Weight Loss Central to Huckabee Campaign |
| Monday, April 30, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee may be a dark horse in the already-crowded, contentious field of candidates for the next presidency of the United States. But the message which could come to per... more
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Nobel Winning Economist Discusses His Own Asperger's Syndrome |
| Monday, April 30, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Our Stories
The excellent economics blog Marginal Revolution pointed out this nice YouTube video of Nobel Prize winning economist Vernon Smith. Working and teaching at George Mason University, Smith has been outs... more
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Early Education Improves Learning, Social Skills of Autistic Children |
| Friday, April 27, 2007 By Blog Meister |
Category: Autism, Asperger's, PDD
A two-year, United Kingdom-based study on early learning interventionfor autistic children demonstrates that specialized classes and privatetutoring, beginning as early as age 3, may significantly imp... more
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Early Education Improves Learning, Social Skills of Autistic Children |
| Friday, April 27, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Parenting
A two-year, United Kingdom-based study on early learning intervention for autistic children demonstrates that specialized classes and private tutoring, beginning as early as age 3, may signifi... more
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Overweight Shrek Sends Mixed, Useless Message |
| Friday, April 27, 2007 By Blog Meister |
Category: Eating Healthy/ Eating Disorders
To start, we'd like to tip our hat to the Department of Health and Human Services, just for making the effort. It's not easy for large government agencies to stay "hip," in fact, it's sort of agains... more
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Overweight Shrek Sends Mixed, Useless Message |
| Thursday, April 26, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Parenting
To start, we'd like to tip our hat to the Department of Health and Human Services, just for making the effort. It's not easy for large government agencies to stay "hip," in fact, it's sort of against ... more
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One Taste Can Be All It Takes |
| Thursday, April 26, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Addiction
It has become something of a trope in many circles that simply "trying" a drug one time isn't all that dangerous. However, new research from Brown University illustrates just how risky and damaging on... more
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Mental Health Accessability Exacerbating Rural Meth Problem |
| Wednesday, April 25, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Addiction
Researchers in Nebraska have released a comprehensive new study that examines methamphetamine addiction from the perspective of urban addicts and rural addicts. Methamphetamine is a major problem acro... more
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Small Team Reaches Out to Treat Addicts |
| Tuesday, April 24, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Addiction
Sometimes it's funny how news stories from different regions can inform one another. Last week we wrote about New York City's financial troubles, created by relying on hospitals as the frontline in ad... more
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Mentally Ill Students Create a Slippery Legal Slope |
| Monday, April 23, 2007 By BlogMeister |
Category: Depression
Caught between matters of confidentiality and a legal responsibility to ensure the well-being of students suffering from mental illness as well as their classmates, colleges and universities face ... more
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Mentally Ill Students Form a Slippery Legal Slope |
| Monday, April 23, 2007 By Blog Meister |
Category: Parenting
Caught between matters of confidentiality and a legal responsibility to ensure the well-being of students suffering from mental illness as well as their classmates, colleges and universities face a se... more
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In Tragedy, Diagnosis Not as Important as Improving Prevention and Response |
| Friday, April 20, 2007 By TheEditorInChief |
Category: Our Psychology
We have come to the end of a long and painful week; perhaps the most painful week ever for those effected by the tragic events in Blacksburg, VA. By all accounts, the campus at Virginia Tech has begun... more
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