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Did you know that anxiety disorders affect 1 in 7 people in Australia each year? At Psychology Melbourne, we've been able to help a lot of people escape from anxiety, and the prison that it can so often represent. Some of the signs of anxiety include constant worrying, being unable to relax and having difficulties sleeping and concentrating. Our practice...
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Nearly a million prescriptions for Ritalin and related drugs for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were dispensed last year – more than double the number of a decade ago. The figures have prompted a damning indictment of the system from experts who claim that the running down of mental health services has led to children being misdiagnosed and inappropriately prescribed...
Early diagnosis of children with Autism is crucial. Unfortunately, most children are not diagnosed until two or three years after the first signs of autism are identifiable. Why an early assessment and diagnosis is important Early interventions allow for better outcomes for children, especially in areas such as learning and cognitive ability, language development and adaptive functioning. Children can now...
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One of the fascinating things about being a grandparent is the opportunity it gives you to watch young people develop skills and interests and indeed entire personalities. So often they amaze me with their intelligence. They are so much smarter than I remember being as a child. And just as often I tell myself that they will have to be...
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It's almost a year since I wrote about my concerns that people were being encouraged to diagnose themselves and others as psychopaths, in a piece about suggestions by psychology professor Paul Verhaeghe that the prevailing social and economic climate were encouraging psychopathic personality traits. Judging from an article in The Guardian last week by two British researchers, Dr Molly Crockett...
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I wonder how many health bureaucrats in Australia and overseas read the British Psychological Society's Research Digest? If so, they might be feeling a little sheepish, if not anxious or even depressed about a new meta-analysis by psychologists in Norway that indicates that CBT or Cognitive Behavioural Therapy - which policy makers have settled on as the gold standard for...
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Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull's job title is a relatively accurate description of his talents, but he must have spent the past few days wondering quite why he allowed the perpetually professionally outraged Andrew Bolt to lure him into publicly advising the ABC's Leigh Sales and Emma Alberici to be less aggressive and more "forensic" in their interviews with government ministers....
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The BBC has some invaluable advice for its audience on the psychology of sales - an exploration of the psychological tricks that sales people use to get you to buy their products. Psychologists have been studying the science of influence for decades, and they know quite a lot about the techniques that the top salesmen use to mess with their...
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It looks like someone at The Age must have read my post on how marrying a conscientious spouse is the best thing you can do for your career - based on research by psychologists at Washington University. Fairfax journalist Sylvia Pennington's piece in the Small Business section included some confirmation from a couple of businessmen on the contributions their wives...
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The economic craziness of government austerity policies is well argued by experts like Nobel laureate Paul Krugman (his latest is here) and Oxford University's Professor Michael Wren-Lewis at the Mainly Macro blog, although the logic seems beyond the understanding of all but a few of our politicians and business leaders. Unfortunately, the emotional effects of this economic simple-mindedness are scarcely...