Human Development and Family Studies | UConn. Engaging students and faculty in collaborative clinical, research, and educational activities, the MFT program's mission is to provide highly qualified professionals at the master's and doctoral level, who possess the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to improve the quality of well-being, for individuals, families, and wider social systems. The COAMFTE-Accredited Master's and doctoral programs provide high-quality, comprehensive education in the field of marriage and family therapy. Building on the Department of Human Development and Family Studies mission, the MFT program works with local, state, national, and international partners to advance the knowledge base and strengthen the conditions that enhance family functioning.
Clinical training and outreach gives balanced attention to the range of physical/organic, interpersonal, relational, and cultural/contextual factors that can cause or exacerbate the issues presented for treatment. Self-Kindness: A Healthier Alternative to Self-Esteem? Steve Safigan, MAPP '09, is a practicing life coach (CPCC). He is president of Foundations Seminars and presents personal growth seminars specializing in positive interventions for healthy adults looking for more happiness, meaning, and connection in their own lives. Full bio. Steve writes on the 4th of the month, and his articles are here. For decades, high self-esteem has been nearly synonymous with positive mental health.
Governments, teachers, and parents have spent millions of dollars and countless hours nurturing self-esteem in our children. Self-esteem is associated with less depression and anxiety, and with greater happiness and life satisfaction. With so much in favor of high self-esteem, what’s not to love about it? The Problem with Self-Esteem According to research by Kristin Neff and colleagues, self-esteem is associated with a steady rise in narcissism over the last 45 years. Self-Kindness: A Different Way to Relate to Self and Others Self-kindness is distinct from self-pity. What we can learn from procrastination. Some years ago, the economist George Akerlof found himself faced with a simple task: mailing a box of clothes from India, where he was living, to the United States.
The clothes belonged to his friend and colleague Joseph Stiglitz, who had left them behind when visiting, so Akerlof was eager to send the box off. But there was a problem. The combination of Indian bureaucracy and what Akerlof called “my own ineptitude in such matters” meant that doing so was going to be a hassle—indeed, he estimated that it would take an entire workday. So he put off dealing with it, week after week. This went on for more than eight months, and it was only shortly before Akerlof himself returned home that he managed to solve his problem: another friend happened to be sending some things back to the U.S., and Akerlof was able to add Stiglitz’s clothes to the shipment.
There’s something comforting about this story: even Nobel-winning economists procrastinate! It’s also a surprisingly costly one. Gray Matters. 22. July 2011, 16:25 Yes, he or she can. Of course one can. Thomas Jefferson could. You know, this is a science blog, and although I mostly blog about migraine, I would rather ask whether somebody who is in favour of creationism can run for president? I just read "Michele Bachmann's Stance on Evolution Demolished by High School Student" (which I can recommend) and I read about Bachmann in both her German and English Wikipedia page, funny enough, only the former, the German page, mentions that she is a fan of creationism and intelligent design. Well, let's get back to migraine.
The discussion, that sufaces now, is actually far too sensitve to be used in a political race. Geschrieben in Migraine Comment: (0). The war of the manual of mental illness. Wired covers the battle raging over the next version of the ‘manual of mental illness’ – the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM-5. The piece discusses how the chief editors of two previous version of the manual, Robert Spitzer and Allen Frances – who edited the DSM-III and DSM-IV, have heavily criticised the proposed new manual for lack of transparency in development (non-disclosure agreements are required) and for ever-widening categories.
We’ve covered the (surprisingly personal ) battle on a couple of occasions but the Wired piece does a great job of getting into the nitty gritty of the arguments. What the battle over DSM-5 should make clear to all of us—professional and layman alike—is that psychiatric diagnosis will probably always be laden with uncertainty, that the labels doctors give us for our suffering will forever be at least as much the product of negotiations around a conference table as investigations at a lab bench. How Prozac works. The tightly regulated balance between secretion and removal of neurotransmitters is not functioning properly in certain mental conditions like bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, and depression.
Neurotransmitters are signaling molecules used to transmit messages between neurons (nerve cells) in the brain. Serotonin is one of the neurotransmitters affected in depression and similar disorders. The most common class of drugs for the treatment of these conditions is called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI). The well-known Fluoxetine (Prozac) is a member of this class. SSRIs work on the serotonin balance by inhibiting a transporter called SERT that selectively pumps serotonin back into the neurons. In a recent publication in Science, a team of researchers showed a possible mechanism of action for Fluoxetine. Gene expression works in two steps: DNA, the genetic material is copied into a working draft in the form of RNA, called messenger or mRNA. Reference. EQSQ: How Does Your Mind Work? Kids on the Block, Inc. - International Educational Puppets in Columbia, MD.