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Why To-Dos Don’t Get To-Done
Making lists of what we want to accomplish is a great first step, but it's easy to stall there. What blocks us from following through? Tags: decision making, tools (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - January 6, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gordon Shippey Tags: General decision making tools Source Type: news

The Case for Boredom
Does anyone get bored any more? Given the prevalence of streaming TV, social media, instant messaging and news aggregation sites, boredom seems on the way out. But what could we lose if we're never bored?Tags: mindful awareness, society, technology (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - December 30, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gordon Shippey Tags: General mindful awareness society technology Source Type: news

Can We Change Who We Are?
For many years evidence has been mounting that the construct we call "personality" is not as well-defined as we might think and that personality patterns are nowhere near as stable or as intractable as we once believed them to be.Tags: character disturbance, personality disorders, therapy (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - December 17, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: General character disturbance personality disorders therapy Source Type: news

Should-ing on Our Kids
It's one thing to have high expectations of our children, but quite another to apply standards at odds with their development, temperament, and cognitive capacity. Tags: CBT, parenting and children, responsibility, social skills (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - December 10, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gordon Shippey Tags: General CBT parenting and children responsibility social skills Source Type: news

Mindfulness Helpers to Keep You Fit
Most of us sail through our daily routines with little thought as to how badly we're exceeding our essential calorie demands, kidding ourselves about what kinds of things and how much of them we've eaten. But when there's a record to contend with, it's much harder to remain unaware or in denial.Tags: diet and weight loss, mindful awareness (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - December 9, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: General diet and weight loss mindful awareness Source Type: news

How to be Judgmental
Instinctively, most of us fear and avoid judgment. Without regular, searching, accurate reflection on what we're doing and what results our actions achieve, we set ourselves up for a numb kind of stagnation that can last for years or decades.Tags: decision making, in practice, relationships, responsibility (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - December 3, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gordon Shippey Tags: General decision making in practice relationships responsibility Source Type: news

Connection: At the Heart of any Good Relationship
In my experience, for relationships to really work, connections have to exist and develop on multiple levels. The extent to which these connections deepen and mature over time is likely to have a big bearing on the level of fulfillment the parties experience within the relationship.Tags: communication, relationships, social skills (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - December 2, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: General communication relationships social skills Source Type: news

Institutional Care for Mentally Ill in Mexico Brings to Mind the U.S. Not so Long Ago
Reading about the state of institutional care for mentally ill people in Mexico brought to mind an experience of my own from a pre-internship training practicum in the early 1980s at a hospital in the United States.Tags: history, politics, psychiatry (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - November 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: General history politics psychiatry Source Type: news

The Muppet Show: The Enduring Genius of Jim Henson
The Muppets are Jim Henson's legacy. Through them, he gave the world subversive ideas, lasting songs, and wholesome values. Tags: relationships, society, women (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - November 13, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr Misty Hook, PhD Tags: General relationships society women Source Type: news

Steer with a Light Hand
Getting where you want to go in life takes subtlety at least as much as it does power.Tags: control, mindful awareness, power, presence (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - November 5, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gordon Shippey Tags: General control mindful awareness power presence Source Type: news

Please Remember: Manners are the Building Blocks of Society. Thanks.
It seems like rudeness has reached epidemic proportions. People seem to have forgotten that good manners are the foundation of a good society. There are larger systemic reasons for this behavior, but we all can still do our part.Tags: ethics, relationships, responsibility, society (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - November 4, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr Misty Hook, PhD Tags: General ethics relationships responsibility society Source Type: news

Radical Ideologies, Deadly Ways of Thinking
The cognitive-behavioral revolution taught us that meaningful behavioral change generally can't occur in the absence of a change of heart and attitude, and the only way to stem the rising tide of violence among various militant political groups is to confront their driving ideology directly.Tags: CBT, politics, responsibility, society, violence (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - October 9, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: General CBT politics responsibility society violence Source Type: news

Loving a Good Scandal: A New Look at Race, Gender and Power
Through its unique depiction of race, gender, power and relationships, the television show Scandal turns the usual stereotypes on their heads and shows us just how much power corrupts.Tags: ethics, politics, power, society, women (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - September 30, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr Misty Hook, PhD Tags: General ethics politics power society women Source Type: news

Joining the Coffee Clique
Is there an invisible line separating coffee drinkers from everyone else? Sound preposterous? I used to think so.Tags: anxiety and stress, motivation, relationships, society, work-life (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - September 25, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gordon Shippey Tags: General anxiety and stress motivation relationships society work-life Source Type: news

MyTherapist: Premium Domain Name Up for Grabs
With each of the practitioners on our separate online therapy site moving on in their own directions, we've decided to sell the domain MyTherapist.com. Give us a shout if you'd like to make this 16-year-old domain name your own.Tags: in practice, online therapy, technology (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - September 24, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr Greg Mulhauser, Managing Editor Tags: General in practice online therapy technology Source Type: news