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Entries from April 2009

CES-D: Depression Screening Tool

April 30th, 2009 · No Comments

http://counsellingresource.com/quizzes/cesd/index.html
The Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) is one of the most common screening tests for helping an individual to determine his or her depression quotient. The quick self-test measures depressive feelings and behaviours during the past week.
The CES-D was developed in the 1970s by Lenore Radloff while she was a researcher at the […]

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Tags: Mental Health

Medicate or Meditate?

April 30th, 2009 · No Comments

Trying to heal your depression with spiritual practice alone can make the condition chronic and prone to relapse, says a new study. Physicians and long-term meditators Roger Walsh, Robin Bitner, Bruce Victor, and Lorena Hillman explain why both antidepressants and meditation have an important role to play in treating depression.
When we first set foot […]

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Tags: Meditation · Mental Health

Finding happiness: 5 happiness boosters that actually do more harm than good.

April 27th, 2009 · No Comments

Every Wednesday is Tip Day.
This Wednesday: 5 happiness boosters that actually do more harm than good.
Everyone has a few tricks for beating the blues – things you do when you’re feeling down to try to boost your mood. It turns out, however, that several of the most popular strategies don’t actually work very well in […]

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What Are Friends for? A Longer Life - NYT article

April 21st, 2009 · No Comments

By TARA PARKER-POPE
Published: April 20, 2009
In the quest for better health, many people turn to doctors, self-help books or herbal supplements. But they overlook a powerful weapon that could help them fight illness and depression, speed recovery, slow aging and prolong life: their friends.
Researchers are only now starting to pay attention to the importance of […]

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Tags: Health · Mental Health

What do women want? Discovering what ignites female desires.

April 4th, 2009 · No Comments

Meredith Chivers is a creator of bonobo pornography. She is a 36-year-old psychology professor at Queen’s University in the small city of Kingston, Ontario, a highly regarded scientist and a member of the editorial board of the world’s leading journal of sexual research, Archives of Sexual Behavior. The bonobo film was part of a series […]

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