Recently I ran an online survey on this blog asking the question ‘Should self management include:’ and then I listed a number of options such as ‘injection therapy’, ‘medications’, ‘intermittent hands-on therapy’, ‘intermittent hands-off therapy’ and so on. My thoughts were that while the term ’self-management’ is bandied ab
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February 23, 2010
Bridging the self-management gap
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February 15, 2010
Women Online Shopping: Shop Until You Drop?
Personally I like online shopping mainly because it’s easy, fast and convenient, you can shop when you want to anywhere you want to. There’s a gender gap in online shopping. More men than women engage in online shopping and make online purchases while in the offline world women love to shop. Until recent very few [...]Related posts:Why Women Drop Maths Not only in the medical academi
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January 13, 2010
As in humans, sleep solidifies a bird’s memories
Sleeping is known to help humans stabilize information and tasks learned during the preceding day. Now, researchers have found that sleep has similar effects upon learning in starlings, a discovery that will open up future research into how the brain learns and preserves information. The research fills an important gap between human behavioral findings and animal experiments of how the brain chan
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December 9, 2009
Business professor says lessons on ethics, character can prevent unethical behavior in the workplace
New research is showing a gap between the character traits that business students say make a good executive and the traits they describe having themselves. The researcher says business schools need to close that gap by continuously discussing ethics and character in the classroom.
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November 11, 2009
Survey Reveals Big Gap In Understanding Of Depression
Americans do not believe they know much about depression , but are highly aware of the risks of not receiving care, according to a survey released today by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). See full survey results at http://www.nami.org/depression.
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October 3, 2009
Therapy that works: Why so many psychologists choose to ignore science
by Michael D. Anestis, M.S. In the October 12 issue of Newsweek, an article written by Sharon Begley discusses the gap between clinical research and what actually happens in therapy rooms across the country. We have discussed the concept of...
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July 22, 2009
Empirically supported treatments for eating disorders are infrequently used in real world practice
by Michael D. Anestis, M.S. As we have mentioned previously, one of the primary reasons Joye and I launched Psychotherapy Brown Bag was to draw attention to the gap between research and real world practices, and to increase the general...
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July 10, 2009
PTSD Is a Valid Diagnosis: Who Benefits From Challenging Its Existence?
PTSD filled a nosological gap by providing a way to characterize the long-lasting effects of trauma exposure.1 This led to a plethora of previously lacking scientific observations. Now the existence of PTSD is being called into question because some of the original assumptions that helped make the case for it have proved to be incorrect.2-4 However, it is possible to update some of the flawed ass
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