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Edited by Jill Wright,
Did you make a New Year’s resolution last week? Are you full of determination to make that change stick, or are you already feeling your will-power is waning? If you really do want to make a fresh start or break an old behaviour pattern in 2016, Psychology Melbourne clinical psychologist Scott Barnett offers several tips to strengthen your resolve. The...
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Did you know that anxiety disorders affect 1 in 7 people in Australia each year? At Psychology Melbourne, we've been able to help a lot of people escape from anxiety, and the prison that it can so often represent. Some of the signs of anxiety include constant worrying, being unable to relax and having difficulties sleeping and concentrating. Our practice...
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I wonder how many health bureaucrats in Australia and overseas read the British Psychological Society's Research Digest? If so, they might be feeling a little sheepish, if not anxious or even depressed about a new meta-analysis by psychologists in Norway that indicates that CBT or Cognitive Behavioural Therapy - which policy makers have settled on as the gold standard for...
Edited by Jill Wright,
The BBC has some invaluable advice for its audience on the psychology of sales - an exploration of the psychological tricks that sales people use to get you to buy their products. Psychologists have been studying the science of influence for decades, and they know quite a lot about the techniques that the top salesmen use to mess with their...
Edited by Jill Wright,
The economic craziness of government austerity policies is well argued by experts like Nobel laureate Paul Krugman (his latest is here) and Oxford University's Professor Michael Wren-Lewis at the Mainly Macro blog, although the logic seems beyond the understanding of all but a few of our politicians and business leaders. Unfortunately, the emotional effects of this economic simple-mindedness are scarcely...
Edited by Jill Wright,
Are you worried that your stressful existence is going to shorten your life? Have you been told that you have a "Type A personality" and that you're at much greater risk than normal of having a heart attack?It's by no means unusual for our psychologists at Psychology Melbourne to have to help anxious clients deal with these fears. Fortunately, we can...
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Have you by any chance noticed, ever since you bought that oh-so-useful smartphone, that you've suddenly become surrounded by people whose ideas and conversation ... well ... people whose IQs and personality and all-round attractiveness are inferior to your own? Do you find relating to those people is a poor substitute for a fascinating session with your little electronic friend...
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I have just returned from a busy week in Hobart, where I joined my fellow national directors of the Australian Psychological Society at a number of board meetings, followed by the annual conference. I attended several interesting sessions and presented a research paper detailing the improved treatment outcomes that Psychology Melbourne is obtaining from our personal matching sessions. Our paper...
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...
Edited by Jill Wright,
One of the reasons Psychology Melbourne achieves outstanding results with our clients is the additional steps we take to establish and maintain a strong and effective therapeutic relationship - things like individual matching sessions - and the effort we invest in measuring and tracking the progress of the people we work with. The value of these disciplines was brought home...