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
Month: April 2012
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
Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (the VA) announced that it was adding Mental Health Counselors and Marriage and Family Therapists to its workforce as part of the hiring of an additional 1,900 mental health staff nationwide that VA announced last week. Included in the announcement was this quote
The American Counseling Association is seeking help from students and new professionals in designing the 2013 “For Graduate Students and New Professional Only” conference series. ACA wants to hear from you about what should be part of that lineup at the 2013 ACA Annual Conference in Cincinnati next March. Each
Researchers from McMaster University are suggesting that the negative physical side effects from commonly prescribed antidepressants outweigh any good the medications do for patients. “We need to be much more cautious about the widespread use of these drugs,” said lead author Paul Andrews. “It’s important because millions of people are prescribed
Researchers from Norway and the United Kingdom have created a new tool to measure workaholism. According to researcher Cecilie Schou Andreassen, in the wake of globalization, new technology and blurred boundaries between work and private life, the world is witnessing an increase in workaholism. “A number of studies show that work addiction has
The aim of a five-year study about domestic violence is not only to identify more victims but also to determine whether pregnant women are more likely to admit to a computer that they’re victims of domestic violence. The study is being funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child
Much has been made of the rise of social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr and their connection to instances of cyberbullying, suicides and low-self esteem in some users. But mental health organizations are beginning to put features in place on these networks in an effort to prevent suicides.
A new group in Washington, D.C., is striving to remind some of the city’s stressed out inhabitants that playtime doesn’t have to end just because their school days are in the past. Spacious, founded by 23-year old Joey Katona and 51-year-old Cary Umhau, says on its website that the group is “engaged in