Children: An oppressed group.
From "Children's Freedom: A Human Rights Perspective" by Peter Gray, 02/28/19"In fact, children today are far more deprived of liberty than they were when I was a child more than 60 years ago, or when my parents were children 90 years ago. And children are suffering because of that deprivation. As I ’ve documented elsewhere, children today are suffering at record levels from anxiety, depression, and even suicide (Gray, 2011; 2013). The estimated rates of Major Depressive Disorder and anxiety disorders among young people, based on analyses of standardize...
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - March 1, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
Physicians have the highest sucide rate of any profession.
From "Remembering Ricky: Losing a friend to suicide by Andrews Wilner"During my reading, I also learned that physicians have the highest suicide rate of any profession, with one completed suicide every day.[3,4] That's twice the suicide rate of the general public. I don't have any intention of joining my friend, but I don't like being in a high-risk group!"For moreclick here. (Source: Markham's Behavioral Health)
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - March 1, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
How lies become the new truth.
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Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - February 28, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
What's the deal with re-cycling plastic bags?
Editor's note:Increasingly municipalities and governments are banning plastic bags. You can make the switch yourself using paper or re-usable grocery bags. I was at Aldi's on Thursday, 02/21/19 and brought 5 paper bags at $0.07 a piece. I used them and then folded them and plan on using them again.Now that "Eco therapy" has become a thing, perhaps a practice that would decrease guilt, and anxiety about the environment would be to switch from plastic to paper or re-usables. (Source: Markham's Behavioral Health)
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - February 28, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
FLOW by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - A summary
The four factors that contribute to flow = focus, freedom, feedback, four percent challenge. (Source: Markham's Behavioral Health)
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - February 27, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
Patricia Hasbach describes "eco-therapy" to help people with concerns about climate change.
For more informationclick here.Editor's note:One of my daughters lives in Pasadena, CA and when she visited in Western New York last September, 2018, she asked me what I knew about "ecotherapy" and whether I was helping people with their concerns about climate change.She was visiting at a time when there were the wild fires in California. Here in Western New York, 10 miles from the south shore of Lake Ontario, people were dealing last summer, 2018, with high lake levels which were destroying lake front property, docks, and boating harbors.One of the things not dealt with in the short interview above is the symptom of...
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - February 26, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
American Psychological Association takes position against spanking
The American Psychological Association passes a resolution against spanking.THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the American Psychological Association recognizes that scientific evidence demonstrates the negative effects of physical discipline of children by caregivers and thereby recommends that caregivers use alternative forms of discipline that are associated with more positive outcomes for children.BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the APA engage in competency based public awareness, education and accessible outreach activities to increase public knowledge about the effects of physical discipline on children and knowledge regardi...
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - February 25, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
Media literacy - When can you believe your eyes?
Editor's note:One of the positive things that President Trump has done for the American people and people around the world is make them aware of the prevalence of fake news. Scott Adams, the cartoonist who created Dilbert, and an expert on "persuasion techniques" teaches that 80% of news is fake.One of the definitions of mental illness is to be out of touch with reality. There is "fundamental reality" which is our experience based on the laws of nature wherein we manipulate phenomena and there are consequences apart from our human interpretation, opinions, and meaning making. And then there is "constructed reality" which b...
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - February 24, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
Care plan for child after a suicide attempt
From Social Justice Solutions on 02/11/19During the last decade, the number of emergency room and hospital visits linked to suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts among children nearly doubled, according to a study in Pediatrics. This was especially true among youth 15 to 17 years of age. Experts say that bullying, trauma, and abuse are often underlying factors.Fortunately, with the right type of support from health care providers and others, children and their parents can find the resources they need to heal and prevent mental health crises in the future. If you are a parent whose child has attempted s...
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - February 23, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
STD cases on the rise in U.S. - 39% 2013 - 2019
From JAMA 01/29/19Emergency departments around the US are seeing a 39% increase in the number of visits related to sexually transmitted infections (STIs), according to a recent report from the CDC. The flood of patients ending up in the emergency department for STI care is just 1 symptom of a growing public health crisis.After decades of progress at reducing sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), the United States is seeing a dramatic reversal of fortunes. The CDC has documented sharp increases in the number of cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis since 2013. Chlamydia remained the most common inf...
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - February 22, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
Religion in the psychotherapy office
A client visited my office for the first time shortly after the Christmas holidays and found in my waiting room a pamphlet about Advent.He asked me about half way through our first interview, "Is this a religious place?'I said surprised, "What?""Are you Christian or something?"I said, "No, this is a private counseling office. I am not religiously affiliated.""Oh," he said, "Good."I was still uncertain about what had precipitated his question and concern. Later when I went out to my waiting room, I found the Advent pamphlet and a brochure about marriage encounter,Retrouvaille for couples considering divorce which is run by ...
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - February 21, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
How the sociologists define generations
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Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - February 20, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
What's your purpose in life?
Yesterday, I had a full roster of clients, and it seemed that a common theme came up with many of them: the lack of purpose in their lives.It is easy to lose one's way in life and become depressed and anxious.Doctors tell people that their depression is related to problems with the neurotransmitters in their brains and that anti-depressants will help. Sometimes they do somewhat, but anti-depressants do not get to the deeper issue which is a lack of purpose and meaning in one's life. What to do about that?A lack of purpose and meaning in one's life is best addressed by a conversation with someone who is trusted, who underst...
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - February 20, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
Should cannibis be used as harm reduction treatment for opioid addiction?
From Medscape Psychiatry, 02/12/19, by Alicia AultThirty-three states, Washington, DC, Guam, and Puerto Rico have legalized cannabis for medical use, and 10 states and Washington, DC, have legalized it for recreational use, according to the National Council on State Legislatures.Both New York and Illinois recently amended medical marijuana laws in favor of cannabis as a substitute, which was another factor in writing the article, said Saitz.New York issued emergency regulations in July 2018 allowing opioid users to become certified to use medical marijuana instead. In August 2018, the Illinois...
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - February 19, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
The diffrence between schooling and education
"The country where free public education was born struggles with the concept of what education is, what is should accomplish, and how it should approach the child." p. 239The Whole Parenting Guide by Alan Reder, Phil Catalfo, and Stephanie Renfrow Hamilton"As a society, we have erred in assuming that education should be something done to our kids by some external agent called 'school' and that it should conclude when a person finishes formal schooling and begins a career. The shallowness of this concept has motivated many parents to make learning their own family value, to encouare their kids in their education, and e...
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - February 18, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
