TITLE What’s the difference between stress and anxiety? DESCRIPTION Our lives are filled with anxiety and stress: daily living through the pandemic has exacerbated both. What is the difference between the two? “There’s a fine line between stress and anxiety. Both are emotional responses, but stress is typically caused by an external trigger…. Read more »
Posts Categorized: Stress and Health Psychology
Psychology Update — New Device Allows Man With Paralysis to Type by Imagining Handwriting
TITLE New Device Allows Man With Paralysis to Type by Imagining Handwriting DESCRIPTION What an amazing development! Imagine the terrible issues in trying to communicate when there has been a body ravaging disease (e.g., Stephen Hawking) or a spinal cord injury. This article “announces” a new development: “An experimental brain-computer interface has… Read more »
Psychology Update — Depression: Why We Need an Operation Warp Speed for Treatments
TITLE Depression: Why We Need an Operation Warp Speed for Treatments DESCRIPTION This year, though the pandemic, has witnessed a significant increase in anxiety, depression, and a wide variety of mental health disorders. The author of this article begins by relating a personal history of her sister’s life long depression and its recurrence… Read more »
Psychology Update — Why the pandemic’s end spurs anxiety
TITLE Why the pandemic’s end spurs anxiety DESCRIPTION This American Psychological Association takes the form of a very timely interview with Ellen Hendriksen, PhD, a clinical psychologist at Boston University’s Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders. The article focuses on the topic of both the feelings of general anxiety and social anxiety related to… Read more »
Psychology Website of the Week — MH&A: Getting Help
PSYCHOLOGY WEBSITE OF THE WEEK MH&A: Getting Help Glossary of Medical and Mental Health Terms URL http://www.mhaging.org/help/glossary.html DESCRIPTION This is a very useful website for a listing of mental health terms in the form of a glossary. It can be a resource when needing terms related to psychopathology and mental health that are not found… Read more »
Psychology Update — How Food Affects Mental Health
TITLE How Food Affects Mental Health DESCRIPTION What are your favorite comfort foods? Do they include pizza, ice cream, candy, nuts, lots of carbs, fried foods, fast foods, and so on? Are these just for comfort, handling stress, or your regular diet? Psychology and Psychiatry are finally catching up to the notion that food… Read more »
Psychology Update — Mental Health Primers From APA
TITLE Mental Health Primers Helping teachers identify behaviors in the classroom that are symptomatic of mental health and other psychological issues DESCRIPTION This is truly an important resource whether you are a Psychology professor or a student in a Psychology course. This site presents very important resources that focus on problematic behaviors in students… Read more »
Psychology Update — What Can Covid-19 Teach Us About the Mysteries of Smell?
TITLE What Can Covid-19 Teach Us About the Mysteries of Smell? DESCRIPTION This is a most fascinating article that would be classified in the Sensation and Perception chapters in the textbook. Interestingly, those chapters devote the smallest amount of space to the sense of smell (olfactory) and taste (gustatory). The article begins with… Read more »
Psychology Update — 3 ARTICLES ON PAIN (Physical and Emotional) MANAGEMENT
3 ARTICLES ON PAIN (Physical and Emotional) MANAGEMENT This week’s Psychology Update along with the Psychology Website of the Week and Psychology Resource Ted Talk of the Week focuses on the mysterious distressing problem of pain and pain management. These articles can be used in conjunction with the chapters on nervous system, Positive and… Read more »
Psychology Update — Read This If You Wake Up Hungry In The Middle Of The Night
TITLE Read This If You Wake Up Hungry In The Middle Of The Night DESCRIPTION What an interesting article! I think that many of us have on occasion awakened at some time through the night and felt hungry and then binged on toast, ice cream, a treat, or a snack. WHY? This fascinating… Read more »
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Abnormal Psychology, 15th Edition DSM-5-TR Update
Behavioral Neuroscience
Personality, 15th Edition
Cognition, 11th Edition
