TITLE Too Much Screen Time for Teens Leads to Mental Disorders, New Study Shows DESCRIPTION This is a great article that will help the reader understand the effects of too much screen time on behavior. The article states; “Youngsters who spend a lot of time in front of a screen are at greater… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Personality
Psychology Update — Reliving Trauma Through Virtual Reality is Helping Veterans With PTSD
TITLE Reliving Trauma Through Virtual Reality is Helping Veterans With PTSD DESCRIPTION This link is to a 2-minute video that discusses and briefly demonstrates the use of Virtual Reality therapy as a tool to help veterans with PTSD. “Soldiers who experienced combat trauma have a new way of getting help — walking through a… Read more »
Psychology Update — Dreams: Here’s What Your Recurring Nightmares Actually Mean
TITLE Dreams: Here’s What Your Recurring Nightmares Actually Mean DESCRIPTION Given these difficult times during the pandemic, it is no surprise that many people have reported having an increase in bad dreams and nightmares. We all dream as part of our sleep cycle and label it as REM (rapid eye movement) stage of… Read more »
Psychology Website of the Week — Psychology Today: Addiction
PSYCHOLOGY WEBSITE OF THE WEEK TITLE Psychology Today: Addiction URL https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/addiction DESCRIPTION This Psychology Today website can be used a both an in class teaching resource and a valid informational repository for students. Topics covered include: What Is Addiction? Symptoms Causes Treatment Relapse Compulsive and Addictive Behaviors Drug Trends Recent posts on… Read more »
Psychology Update — How to Build Resilience in Hard Times
TITLE How to Build Resilience in Hard Times DESCRIPTION What an important article by the fabulous science writer of the NY Times Jane E. Brody! In this article she addresses the difficulties that people go through in their lives including the current continuing pandemic. How individuals cope in hard times is the focus… Read more »
Psychology Update — Pandemic Anxiety Is Fueling a Rise in OCD Symptoms
TITLE Pandemic Anxiety Is Fueling a Rise in OCD Symptoms DESCRIPTION This is a very long and extremely comprehensive article that not only discusses Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, the causes and treatments, but also, more importantly, how the pandemic has increased the incidence of the disorder. The article begins with an anecdotal case about Roasalyn. … Read more »
Psychology Update — 3 Articles Related to Eating Disorders, Food Addictions, & Stress Eating
3 Articles Related to Eating Disorders, Food Addictions, & Stress Eating (Though these articles are a recent few years old, they are more relevant now than ever through the pandemic.) ARTICLE #1 TITLE Here’s Why You Stress Eat — And How to Stop Doing It DESCRIPTION This interesting article details a number of… Read more »
Psychology Update — ANXIETY
TITLE ANXIETY DESCRIPTION WOW! This is quite a comprehensive article about the topic of ANXIETY!!! The article covers the entire spectrum of the disorder, symptoms, types, causes, and treatments. “Anxiety is both a mental and physical state of negative expectation. Mentally it is characterized by increased arousal and apprehension tortured into distressing worry, and… Read more »
Psychology Update — 3 Recent Articles Related To the topic of ANXIETY
3 Recent Articles Related To the topic of ANXIETY ARTICLE #1 TITLE 4 Types of Anxiety On situational, biological, psychological, and existential anxiety. DESCRIPTION Students of Psychology should consider this a very important article from Psychology Today postings. The author discusses anxiety and categorizes the various causal agents as well as corresponding therapies. Many… Read more »
Psychology Update — All Children 8 and Older Should Be Screened for Anxiety, U.S. Task Force Says
TITLE All Children 8 and Older Should Be Screened for Anxiety, U.S. Task Force Says DESCRIPTION This is an extremely important article for all levels of students in Psychology as well as the Professor. The article delineates the going crisis of mental health in children that is more evident now than ever as we… Read more »
Psychological Science: The Curious Mind
Abnormal Psychology, 15th Edition DSM-5-TR Update
Behavioral Neuroscience
Personality, 15th Edition
Cognition, 11th Edition
