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For students labeled 'emotionally disturbed,' separation can lead to isolation

Walter's aggressive behavior led to his placement in a high-security school for students with emotional or behavioral disorders.

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Philosophy

APA Member Interview: Shaun Gallagher

Why Philosophy Matters for Psychology

Philosophical concepts like dialectics can enhance psychotherapeutic practices and redefine rigid notions in psychology.

Philosophy

APA Member Interview: Shaun Gallagher

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Why Philosophy Matters for Psychology

Philosophical concepts like dialectics can enhance psychotherapeutic practices and redefine rigid notions in psychology.

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Women in technology

Electric shock therapy for depression made me forget my wedding day'

The Independent covers critical issues like reproductive rights and mental health, emphasizing the importance of accessible journalism.

fromFast Company

4 science-backed skills to start flourishing and change your life

Flourishing is a learnable skill that can be developed through practice and simple exercises.

Welcome to the Anxiety Club

Humor and mental health intertwine in 'Anxiety Club,' showcasing comedians' struggles and promoting open conversations about anxiety.

The Health of American Surgeons, We Are Not Okay

The Pitt accurately portrays the mental health struggles faced by medical professionals, highlighting the alarming rates of physician suicide.

How to Create a Psychiatric Advance Directive

A psychiatric advance directive is a legal document outlining mental health treatment preferences during a crisis when communication is impaired.

From a Sliver of the DSM to the Whole Patient

Everyday psychiatric practice often relies on a narrow diagnostic framework, missing key symptoms and the patient's broader context.

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NCBE Updates Character Report Application To Encourage Applicants To Get The Help They Need - Above the Law

Recent updates to the Character Report Application encourage law students to seek mental health help without fear of career repercussions.

In a Mental Health Crisis, Families Need Help, Too

Community and family support are essential for improving mental health outcomes in young people.

Humor

Welcome to the Anxiety Club

Humor and mental health intertwine in 'Anxiety Club,' showcasing comedians' struggles and promoting open conversations about anxiety.

The Health of American Surgeons, We Are Not Okay

The Pitt accurately portrays the mental health struggles faced by medical professionals, highlighting the alarming rates of physician suicide.

How to Create a Psychiatric Advance Directive

A psychiatric advance directive is a legal document outlining mental health treatment preferences during a crisis when communication is impaired.

From a Sliver of the DSM to the Whole Patient

Everyday psychiatric practice often relies on a narrow diagnostic framework, missing key symptoms and the patient's broader context.

fromAbove the Law

NCBE Updates Character Report Application To Encourage Applicants To Get The Help They Need - Above the Law

Recent updates to the Character Report Application encourage law students to seek mental health help without fear of career repercussions.

In a Mental Health Crisis, Families Need Help, Too

Community and family support are essential for improving mental health outcomes in young people.

Reassurance Is Not the Same as Repair

Daniel and Marcus's relationship, built on reliability, faced challenges due to mutual avoidance of difficult emotions, leading to disconnection.

A Los Angeles Woman Was Lost. An Ambitious Mental Health Program Gave Her a Sense of Purpose | KQED

Poon's life was marked by trauma, homelessness, and mental illness after losing her daughter to the foster care system.

Sexual Assault Survivors Are Not Responsible for Their Own Suffering

The effects of trauma from sexual abuse in adolescence are long-lasting and profoundly alter development.

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A Los Angeles Woman Was Lost. An Ambitious Mental Health Program Gave Her a Sense of Purpose | KQED

Poon's life was marked by trauma, homelessness, and mental illness after losing her daughter to the foster care system.

Sexual Assault Survivors Are Not Responsible for Their Own Suffering

The effects of trauma from sexual abuse in adolescence are long-lasting and profoundly alter development.

Return of the Research Notebook in Psychology

Lab notebooks are essential for accountability and credibility in psychological research, yet many psychologists do not utilize them.

Education

The Consequences of Having No Consequences

Consequences are essential for teaching resilience and responsibility in youth development.

Online learning

fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs

Learning Beyond Correction

Single-loop and double-loop learning enhance student achievement and adaptability in education.

Higher education

What's Driving the Student Mental Health Crisis?

Student mental health is a complex challenge in higher education, with varying experiences and increasing demand for support across campuses.

Writing

"I Want To Be Alone"

Solitude is essential but should be self-chosen and limited to foster fulfillment through social connections.

Law

Can You "See" Criminal Intent? What Research Reveals

Criminal appearance and perceived remorse significantly influence legal outcomes and sentencing decisions.

Public health

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Dangers coming from inside the house - Harvard Gazette

John D. Spengler's research significantly advanced indoor air quality awareness and led to smoking bans on airplanes and improved childhood asthma understanding.

Health

The Many Faces of Procrastination and Health Behaviors

Procrastination can negatively impact health by delaying doctor visits and healthy behaviors.

Parenting

The people who were praised for being mature as children and punished for being needy as adults, and the decades it takes to untangle which one was actually true - Silicon Canals

Maturity in children often reflects adult expectations, leading to long-term consequences for the child's emotional development.

Psychology says the most resilient people aren't the ones who never fell apart - they're the ones who fell apart quietly, rebuilt themselves with no audience, and never mentioned it - Silicon Canals

Strength comes from overcoming breakdowns, not from avoiding them.

Why Pressure Feels Like a Problem (Even When It's Right)

Resilience is built through facing suffering, not avoiding it, as it fosters clarity, energy, and self-trust.

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Psychology says the most resilient people aren't the ones who never fell apart - they're the ones who fell apart quietly, rebuilt themselves with no audience, and never mentioned it - Silicon Canals

Strength comes from overcoming breakdowns, not from avoiding them.

Why Pressure Feels Like a Problem (Even When It's Right)

Resilience is built through facing suffering, not avoiding it, as it fosters clarity, energy, and self-trust.

The Power of Positive Choices and Taking Control

Personal empowerment and responsibility begin with the choice to engage with the internet and the content it offers.

3 Hidden Causes of Stress

Anxiety often stems from a deep aversion to uncertainty and ingrained mental frameworks that fuel psychological distress.

When Anxiety Turns Us Into Control Freaks

Anxiety drives the need for control over ourselves and others, often leading to stress and repeating family patterns.

3 Hidden Causes of Stress

Anxiety often stems from a deep aversion to uncertainty and ingrained mental frameworks that fuel psychological distress.

When Anxiety Turns Us Into Control Freaks

Anxiety drives the need for control over ourselves and others, often leading to stress and repeating family patterns.

Why Insight Alone Does Not Heal

Insight opens the door to understanding, but integration and daily practice are essential for true healing.

Psychology says the people who find it hardest to be taken care of when they're sick aren't independent, they're carrying a very old belief that needing someone was the fastest way to be left - Silicon Canals

Needing care from loved ones during illness can evoke feelings of vulnerability and discomfort, often rooted in deeper fears of abandonment.

Cancer

When Healing Becomes Harm

A melanoma diagnosis transformed the perception of sunlight from healing to dangerous, reshaping the relationship with mortality and health.

What Do Relatives Think About Electroconvulsive Therapy?

Most relatives of ECT recipients reported significant memory loss and negative impacts on relationships after treatment.

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LLMs don't get mental health right. We need a two-pronged approach to fix them

LLM-powered chatbots can inadvertently enable suicide and self-harm ideation, necessitating a clinically informed approach to user interactions.

The 5-Word Thought That Can Break Your Life

The phrase 'What if this goes badly?' hinders personal growth and opportunities.

A clinical psychologist explains that the adult children who check on their aging parents most often aren't the favorites - they're usually the ones still hoping for a conversation they stopped expecting years ago - Silicon Canals

The favored child often receives love, while the other sibling seeks recognition and validation through ongoing efforts and communication.

What to make of 'AI psychosis'? - Harvard Gazette

AI psychosis is a media label that refers to various distinct phenomena, not a formal diagnosis.

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Certain Chatbots Vastly Worse For AI Psychosis, Study Finds

Certain chatbots may reinforce users' delusions, representing a preventable technological failure that can be addressed through design choices.

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What to make of 'AI psychosis'? - Harvard Gazette

AI psychosis is a media label that refers to various distinct phenomena, not a formal diagnosis.

fromFuturism

Certain Chatbots Vastly Worse For AI Psychosis, Study Finds

Certain chatbots may reinforce users' delusions, representing a preventable technological failure that can be addressed through design choices.

Psychology says deep thinkers don't realize the reason they feel disconnected from their own life isn't depression - it's that observation became a shelter they forgot how to leave - Silicon Canals

Chronic detachment often misdiagnosed as depression or stress may stem from a learned behavior of observing rather than experiencing life.

Writing Matters

GenAI offers visions of a hopeful future, as it is a powerful tool that enables us to more clearly articulate our thoughts to others. However, the necessity of putting thoughts down on paper remains a crucial skill that risks disappearing altogether.

Philosophy

What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do

Accepting mistakes and being honest with oneself are crucial for navigating uncertainty in decision-making.

Psychology says the most powerful words you can learn aren't 'I'm sorry' or 'I love you', they're 'that doesn't work for me', said without explanation or apology - Silicon Canals

Setting boundaries is essential for personal well-being and requires clarity and confidence.

'How are you using AI?' Your therapist should ask you that question, experts argue

"We're not saying that AI use is good or bad, just like we wouldn't say, substance use is necessarily good or bad, or consulting with a friend about something is good or bad."

US news

Men Don't Always Look Depressed

Men face a higher suicide risk, and healthcare providers must improve depression assessments to address overlooked indicators.

fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs

Research suggests the habit of deferring happiness - 'I'll enjoy life when the kids leave, when I retire, when things calm down' - isn't patience, it's a pattern that simply moves the horizon forward no matter how much you achieve - Silicon Canals

Delaying happiness for future rewards leads to increased misery in the present without guaranteeing future satisfaction.

Higher education

An Education in Psychology Offers Multiple Paths to Success

Graduate education in psychology offers significant long-term financial benefits, contrary to claims that it does not pay off financially.

Why You Should Stop Rejecting Unpleasant Feelings

Fixing unpleasant feelings disrupts attention more than the feelings themselves.

The people who are constantly checking in on everyone else aren't necessarily nurturing. Many of them are quietly running an experiment to see if anyone will ever check in on them unprompted, and the experiment has been returning the same result for decades - Silicon Canals

Constantly reaching out to others can stem from childhood experiences of needing to earn attention.

Some people don't stay quiet in arguments because they're calm, they stay quiet because they ran the math years ago and concluded that saying the thing costs more than swallowing it, and they've been paying the cheaper price so long they forgot it was a choice - Silicon Canals

Silence in arguments often results from an automatic cost-benefit analysis rather than emotional mastery or composure.

Why You Can't Rush Healing

Pacing is essential in therapy, balancing speed to avoid client dysregulation or disengagement.

US news

AI in the mental health care workforce is met with fear, pushback and enthusiasm

AI tools are increasingly adopted in mental health, raising concerns about job replacement and the quality of care.

I'm 37 and I finally understand why I keep saying yes to things I want to say no to - psychology calls it "fawning" and once you see it you can't unsee it - Silicon Canals

Fawning behavior leads to difficulty in saying no, causing resentment despite self-awareness and understanding of its irrationality.

When Tension Turns Toxic

Understanding conflict phases helps in choosing appropriate responses and managing interactions effectively.

Stop Demanding That You Know What's Next

Nexting is a self-aggressive habit that distracts from the present by fixating on what comes next in life.

Helping Everyone Else Might Be Hurting You

Noble self-sabotage manifests as prioritizing others' needs, reinforcing the belief that personal needs come last.

APA Member Interviews, Sharon Crasnow

Sharon Crasnow focuses on feminist epistemology and social science methodology, emphasizing the importance of objectivity and measurement in her work.

Psychology says people who genuinely know their worth don't announce it or defend it, they operate with a quiet certainty that makes negotiation, justification, and proving themselves feel like a foreign language - Silicon Canals

Genuine confidence stems from self-awareness, not the need to broadcast one's worth or achievements.

To Be Happy, Use Your Strengths

Using personal strengths enhances fulfillment, well-being, and satisfaction in various aspects of life.

Why Avoiding Your Emotions Makes Them Stronger

Avoiding thoughts and emotions often intensifies them, while small shifts in response can help manage emotions effectively.

The Cost of Being the Person Everyone Likes

Overly agreeable individuals conceal significant negative feelings while creating a facade of closeness, leading to personal exhaustion and relationship challenges.

The Tool Your Clients Wish You Had Prescribed

AI can provide immediate mental health support, helping individuals manage anxiety and difficult moments effectively.

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Therapists Should Ask Patients About Their AI Use

AI chatbots may contribute to delusional behavior in patients, prompting therapists to discuss AI use during treatment.

The Tool Your Clients Wish You Had Prescribed

AI can provide immediate mental health support, helping individuals manage anxiety and difficult moments effectively.

fromInsideHook

Therapists Should Ask Patients About Their AI Use

AI chatbots may contribute to delusional behavior in patients, prompting therapists to discuss AI use during treatment.

Behavioral scientists have found that how old you feel inside predicts cognitive health in later life - independent of your actual age - Silicon Canals

Subjective age significantly influences brain health, with younger feelings correlating to healthier brain structures.

The Question Behind the Question

Emotional questions often underlie technical inquiries, highlighting the need for addressing patients' emotional needs in medical conversations.

Psychology suggests people who follow through on small promises to themselves aren't just building habits - they're constructing the internal evidence that they can be trusted, which is the actual foundation of lasting self-discipline - Silicon Canals

Self-discipline is shaped by accumulated evidence of personal commitments rather than mere willpower.

When Illness Becomes a Character in Your Life

Chronic illness often becomes personified, impacting adaptation and well-being.

Psychology says people who keep adjusting their personality to suit the room aren't socially skilled - they're exhausted, and they've been exhausted since childhood - Silicon Canals

Constantly adapting one's personality can lead to exhaustion and loss of personal identity, rather than being a sign of social skill.

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APA Member Interview, Christian Culak

Currently I'm working on a virtue ethics approach to the issue of whether examples of moral badness should be allowed in machine learning with artificial moral agents. Motivating the side that we should do so is of special interest to me, with a focus on actions that are not wrong yet worse than morally indifferent.

Philosophy

How Judgments and Opinions Can Make Matters Worse

Misleading thoughts and emotions can disrupt performance, but psychological flexibility allows individuals to pursue goals despite distress.

Therapy in the Public Eye

Engaging methods in family assessments can lead to significant insights and relationship clarifications among family members.

Mental Health Attorneys and Psychiatric Interventions

Interventions are confrontations by family or friends to compel treatment, but they can lead to unexpected adverse events.

Social justice

What if Addiction Isn't the Problem?

Addiction's lack of clear definition undermines regulatory efforts against corporations; reframing addiction as a common human state rather than inherently harmful could better address actual harms and protect children from exploitative design.

How Science Is Learning to Explore Ground Truth

Some clinicians have an uncanny quality. A colleague describes herself and others with this instinct as "witchy"-a capacity to know things about patients they haven't said yet, to follow a stray association to a song lyric or a half-remembered cultural reference and arrive, reliably, at something the patient urgently needed to say but couldn't reach on their own. We see with artificial intelligence these intriguing possibilities for discovery, especially as connections that human beings never would see pop out of apparently unrelated data.

Science

APA Member Interview, Caroline Wall

Individual virtues should be cultivated alongside universal virtues because ethical virtue requires perceiving values correctly, and values depend on what subjects are like as individuals.

Misdiagnosed, Dismissed, and Running Out of Time

Autoimmune encephalitis frequently presents with psychiatric symptoms, causing diagnostic delays when patients are initially evaluated by non-neurological specialists rather than neurologists.

APA Member Interview, Emanuele Costa

Emanuele Costa integrates early modern metaphysics and Spinoza scholarship with a strong commitment to teaching and projects on political dimensions of seventeenth-century epistemology.

APA Member Interview, Stacy S. Chen

PhD candidate studying how decision-making environments shape medical choices, informed consent validity, and physician-patient relationships, with interests in public health and advocacy.

fromwww.scientificamerican.com

APA Member Interview, Phil Corkum

Metaphysical inquiry is context-sensitive and value-laden yet can still aim to describe the world's objective structure, with historical scholarship assessing nonepistemic values.

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Mental health

Big changes could be coming to how we diagnose mental health

fromwww.scientificamerican.com

Mental health

Clinical Reasoning and the Debate Over Psychiatric Diagnosis

Mental health

Big changes could be coming to how we diagnose mental health

Mental health

Clinical Reasoning and the Debate Over Psychiatric Diagnosis

It's Not Always Just in Your Head

Serious illness and medication can overwhelm willpower, requiring mercy alongside accountability when evaluating others' behavior.

Why Mental Health Language Is Everywhere Now

Mental health terminology has migrated from clinical settings into everyday conversation, reducing stigma and increasing awareness, but clinical meanings shift in common speech, requiring precision for effective care and public discourse.

It's the foundation of psychiatric diagnosis. And it's about to get a makeover

The DSM will become an online, continuously updated "living document" with broader stakeholder input, replacing slow, print-based revisions.

Mental Health and Sickness Benefits: Lessons From History

Mental health diagnoses account for 80% of young people's benefit claims, but evidence shows psychiatric treatments produce minimal symptom reduction without proven long-term employment outcomes.

fromwww.theguardian.com

Are we really overdiagnosing mental illness?

Self-diagnosis and concept creep have contributed to increased reports of ADHD and mental health conditions, producing some genuine rises and some overdiagnosis.

fromwww.scientificamerican.com

Psychiatrists plan to overhaul the mental health bibleand change how we define disorder'

The DSM will shift toward biomarker-based, more scientific diagnostic criteria and may rename the manual to emphasize "scientific" over "statistical".

A Better Way to Respond to Mental Health Crises

Most mental health crises do not justify deadly force; specialized mental-health crisis teams reduce violence and produce safer, better outcomes.

fromwww.theguardian.com

Diagnosing mental health conditions need not be a case of yes/no | Letters

If we treat ADHD as binary (you have it or you do not), we are missing the possibility that we all lie somewhere on a continuum with diagnosed ADHD towards one end (and perhaps an ability to focus and concentrate at the other). A diagnosis of ADHD then depends on where the line is drawn. I suggest that this line has been moved in recent years, so that a large group of people have been caught up in the positive ADHD group, who would not have been previously.

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