Recently, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has come under intense scrutiny from Congress (as well as the American Counseling Association) for failing to institute steps that would improve mental health access for veterans. One such step would be to hire counselors as mental health clinicians within veterans hospitals, facilities
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According to research from the University of Warwick, people often misjudge the severity of their depression and anxiety by trying to “rank” their struggles in relation to those of friends, family and the rest of the world. This is cause for concern because these comparisons can lead to missed or false
Transitional events ranging in severity from abuse to changing schools can trigger eating disorders such as anorexia or bulimia, according to recent research from the University of Minnesota. The researchers spoke with 27 participants – 26 women and one man – between the ages of 17 and 64 who were receiving
Obese women are more likely to be discriminated against when applying for jobs and receive lower wages than their thinner counterparts, suggests new research published in the International Journal of Obesity. The study used the universal measure of bias (UMB), which measures anti-fat prejudice, to see if it could predict job
New research from Vanderbilt University suggests that how hardworking a person is might depend on which area of the brain the neurotransmitter dopamine is concentrated. “Past studies in rats have shown that dopamine is crucial for reward motivation,” said researcher Michael Treadway, “but this study provides new information about how
American Counseling Association President Don W. Locke has sent a letter providing feedback on the draft revision of the ASCA National Model. Based on input from the ACA School Counseling Task Force, the letter praises the model for advancing school counseling but disagrees with its tenet that providing individual counseling
Although many people struggle to grapple with the subject of mortality, University of Missouri researchers contend that when people are aware of and contemplate death, positive behaviors can emerge. After reviewing dozens of studies, the researchers found that an awareness of mortality can lead to “decreased militaristic attitudes, better health decisions,
A soon-to-be-published study from the University of California, San Diego reveals that young women can be happy with their bodies at any size. Overweight women who reported being satisfied with their size and shape were also shielded from some of the harmful behavioral and psychological effects that can be associated with being
Postnatal depression is typically associated with new mothers, but a recently released study from the Parenting Research Centre in Australia found that the mental health of new fathers is negatively affected just as often by the arrival of a baby. The study, which included 3471 Australian biological fathers involved in the early
A Concordia University professor hopes to bring awareness to the field of music therapy and how it can help clients not only heal from difficult events but also unite individuals with a passion for social justice. For more than 30 years, Sandra Curtis, a professor in Concordia’s Department of Creative Arts