Teen Depression Talk Packs Auditorium
In the aftermath of three Lake Forest High School student deaths in the past three months, residents of the community filled an auditorium Tuesday evening…
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Measuring the Happiness of Nations – Is it Possible?
On Monday April 2, the United Nations implemented Resolution 65/309. The resolution, adopted at the impetus of the Kingdom of Bhutan, calls for day long…
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Marriage Counseling Online May Decrease Resistance To Therapy
Getting couples into marriage therapy is challenging. Some psychologists report that people are even more likely to resist therapy for their relationship than for individual…
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Positive Psychology Helps Kids with Separation Anxiety
Around the country, kids have been heading back to school, and those first few weeks can be extremely stressful for some children. Separation anxiety, jangled…
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Mindfulness Training Improves Well Being in Teen Boys
Cambridge University researchers have discovered an application of positive psychology that vastly improves teen boys’ level of self-esteem and sense of well-being. Called mindfulness training, the researchers…
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China Embraces Positive Psychology
China is embracing Positive Psychology as a way to remain culturally intact and centered on community rather than the more Western ideal of profit. Psychologist Kaiping Peng,…
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Positive Emotion Leads to Better Physical Health
Positive psychology is an approach that helps people identify and learn ways to achieve better life satisfaction. The definition of positive psychology as developed by Seligman…
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Positive Psychology Can Improve Education
The field of education is one of the most prominent areas in which positive psychology can have an impact. Through the use of positive education,…
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One in Five Men Not the Marrying Type
Your suspicions have been confirmed: some guys just aren’t the marrying type. In fact, in a study conducted by the National Marriage Project, a research…
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Mental Health Care Cuts Could Create Care Crisis
Mental health care services around the country are being cut at a rapid pace thanks to the economic condition of the country. From California to…
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We’re All Crazy Now?
‘Normal’ is a word that may not apply to very many people, say mental health experts, when the new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental…
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Teen Depression Risk Increases with Excessive Internet Use
Teens that live on the Internet are more likely to be severely depressed, according to a recent study. Teens that spend five or more hours…
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Exercise May Reduce Risk of Dementia
Dementia is something at least five million people in the United States are already suffering from, and that number is likely to escalate quickly as…
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How To Be a Child To a Toxic Parent
Parents with delusional and other personality disorders are incredibly difficult to live with. Parenting advice and magazines abound but there is a dearth of information…
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Housing the Homeless Without Giving Them Services: Innovative or Unethical?
Project 50, a service program launched by the L.A.’s county supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, was an initiative to find and house 50 of skid row’s worst…
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Nature Improves Stress and Mental Health
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old…
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Happily Married Women Have Better Stress Responses
Happily married women are better able to control their stress than women whose marriages are unhappy. UCLA researchers, led by Darby E. Saxbe, a graduate…
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Ecstasy Research to Enter Phase 2, Seeking FDA Approval
Ecstasy may no longer be just a drug for teenage rave parties. A new study – the first double blind study of its kind –…
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College Bound: Packing Your Communication Skills For a Healthy Dorm Life
College is a transitional period of life that promises enormous growth and with it, overwhelming amounts of change. For the first time in their lives,…
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BP Criticized for Refusing Mental Health Support
BP has been the cause of incredible levels of stress and anxiety since the explosion of the DeepWater Horizon rig nearly 100 days ago, and…
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The Alabama Department of Mental Health Found in Violation of the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act
The Alabama Department of Mental Health (ADMH) was found in violation of the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) of 1994 on Wednesday…
