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It's great to see the ABC going "Mental As", throwing its support behind Mental Health Week, which this year will run from October 5-11. There will be hundreds of events during the week, and Psychology Melbourne will be playing its part too, with some free classes in mindfulness for individuals and organisations and a mental health tune-up to help keep...
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Britain's chief medical officer, Dame Sally Davies, has warned the UK government that more needs to be done to help people with mental health problems to stay in their jobs, citing disturbing figures on the toll of stress, depression and anxiety in the workplace. According to her report on workplace mental health, around 70 million working days were lost to...
Business psychologist Adam Grant, the highest-rating professor at the famed Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, has been gaining increasing recognition for his book Give and Take, which suggests that giving is the secret to getting ahead. Professor Grant is taking his own advice, with a service called Granted. Sign up, and he will send you a free monthly newsletter...
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You might remember, next time you congratulate a child for an achievement, that it's better to praise her effort, than to tell her how clever she is. I learned to do this some years ago, and had long forgotten where, but it's encouraging to learn that research by a clinical psychologist studying the way the brain works supports this approach. ...
On the face of it, Jules Evans' devastating report of an encounter with a "therapist" is not just a piece of helpful guidance for anyone seeking therapy, but also a cautionary tale for those who practise it. The liberties that Evans claims the "therapist" took with him would make any counsellor, let alone a qualified psychologist, cringe - and indeed...
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The wedding business is going to be delighted with at least one of the recommendations from research undertaken by the US National Marriage Project into the factors that make for healthy marriages. According to the report, titled "Before 'I Do'",couples who want to maximise their chances for long-term wedded bliss should splash out on a BIG wedding, with at least...
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The New York Times, that celebrated chef, Joël Robuchon, has co-authored a cook book that claims an even more profound link between psychology and eating.Robuchon and Dr Nadia Volf's Food and Life is dedicated to the proposition that "meals can improve your health, energy and mood, and maybe even help you find love". Troubled by an obsessive thought? Dr Volf prescribes...
By Gavin Sharp,
One of Psychology Melbourne's corporate psychologists, Gavin Sharp, had some great advice for senior executives experiencing the isolation that confronts anyone who achieves higher office.In an interview in The Age's Executive Style section, he acknowledged that managers had to accept a degree of loneliness as the inevitable result of their responsibilities."Sometimes you have to distance yourself," he told The Age's...
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The Association for Psychological Science research blog has a thought-provoking post on the issue of work-life balance, which suggests that the stress that is frequently entailed in meeting competing demands may have a lot to do with the way we look at it. The problem could be that the concept is often seen as a zero-sum game: a battle between...
Having been tipped off by The Guardian to a BBC Radio 4 program on the history of self-help - so far only one of three episodes has gone to air - I couldn't resist tuning in via iPlayer. It's a fascinating, and highly amusing exploration of something that has been around for two thousand years. It seems, in fact, that...