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Cancer and Aging: A Growing Global Crisis
The world's health systems may soon become unable to bear the increasing financial burden of cancer care, according to a recent report from the World Health Organization. The importance of taking prevention seriously can't be understated, and it could literally save your life.Tags: aging, health, public health (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - February 24, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: General aging health public health Source Type: news

Jung’s Inner Work: Getting in Touch with Ourselves
From dream interpretation to active imagination, the inner work of Jungian psychology can help tap into the world of the unconscious.Tags: Freud, meaning, sleep (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - February 19, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: General Freud meaning sleep Source Type: news

What’s the Flap over the Flappy Bird App?
What can a deceptively simple mobile phone game tell us about individual liberty and social responsibility? Tags: addiction, ethics, online mental health, public health, responsibility (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - February 18, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gordon Shippey Tags: General addiction ethics online mental health public health responsibility Source Type: news

Anatomy of a Relapse: Lessons from the Hoffman Tragedy
The time to try and prevent a tragedy like the one that befell Hoffman is when a person is showing the signs of poor psychological adjustment. When it comes to many substances, by the time a person begins indulging, it's often already far too late.Tags: drug abuse, relationships, responsibility (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - February 11, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: General drug abuse relationships responsibility Source Type: news

5 Reasons We Don’t Go Out Anymore
Over the last decade or so, we're staying home more, going out less, and spending far more time in front of our screens. Here are the trends that underlie these changes. Tags: communication, public health, relationships, society, technology (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - February 11, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gordon Shippey Tags: General communication public health relationships society technology Source Type: news

It Gets Better When You’re a Grownup
How quickly we as adults forget the difficulties of childhood and adolescence. This post is for my under-18 readers and the grownups who care about them. Tags: parenting and children, power, society (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - February 9, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gordon Shippey Tags: General parenting and children power society Source Type: news

Creeping Up On Success
Sometimes the fastest way to a goal is slowing down enough to plan. Tags: decision making, responsibility, tools (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - February 4, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gordon Shippey Tags: General decision making responsibility tools Source Type: news

Abusive Relationships and Substance Abuse
Do some people abuse people the way they abuse substances? There seems to be a parallel between the way some people relate to their substances of choice and the way they relate to significant others in their lives.Tags: abuse and trauma, addiction, relationships, therapy (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - February 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: General abuse and trauma addiction relationships therapy Source Type: news

In Praise of the Junk Drawer
Wherever I've lived, whether with my family or by myself, there has always been some place to put stuff that doesn't belong anywhere else. It ends up holding rare fasteners, spare buttons, furniture assembly tools and take-out menus. My parents called it the "junk drawer" and now so do I.Tags: decision making, relationships, tools (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - January 28, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gordon Shippey Tags: General decision making relationships tools Source Type: news

What Do We Learn After a Marriage Failure?
Marriage has never been an easy enterprise, and surveys show that the divorce rate is rising around the world. Are people learning from these experiences or are they doomed to repeat the same "mistakes" again?Tags: character disturbance, marriage, relationships (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - January 27, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: General character disturbance marriage relationships Source Type: news

In Praise of Procrastination
Procrastination is often seen as a negative trait that can cost you dearly. Paying attention to the reasons behind the procrastination could have quite surprising results.Tags: focusing, mindful awareness, motivation (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - January 22, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: General focusing mindful awareness motivation Source Type: news

Toward Enlightened Materialism
With the holidays behind us, the gifts that gave us such pleasure earlier may now seem not so amazing. Will material goods always disappoint us or can we find a way to be both materially and emotionally fulfilled?Tags: meaning, news and research, positive psychology, society (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - January 21, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gordon Shippey Tags: General meaning news and research positive psychology society Source Type: news

Persuasion vs. Manipulation: A Very Fine Line
Companies have long used well researched techniques to sell their products. Are we being persuaded to buy or unknowingly manipulated? Tags: decision making, marketing, society (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - January 14, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: General decision making marketing society Source Type: news

The Spotlight of Attention
Sometimes the smartest thing we can do is understand the specific ways in which our brains and minds are dumb -- by design.Tags: decision making, neuroscience (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - January 13, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gordon Shippey Tags: General decision making neuroscience Source Type: news

ADHD: Epidemic of Incidence or Over-Diagnosis?
The latest numbers on ADHD appear to be seriously out of step with historical prevalence rates and suggest an epidemic not so much of occurrence but rather of over-diagnosis.Tags: ADHD, medications, school and studies (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - January 7, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: General ADHD medications school and studies Source Type: news