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Edited by Jill Wright,
By the time the majority of the Psychology Melbourne team gets back from our short end-of-year holiday, most of us will have spent precious time with our families, some of whom live interstate or overseas. Because of the particular work we do, we are more likely than most people to be aware of how lucky we are to have people...
Edited by Jill Wright,
Having spent a good deal of my professional life writing daily and weekly columns in The Australian, The Age, Sydney Morning Herald and the Financial Review, I can sympathise with the sort of pressure Lisa Pryor is under to produce something entertaining for her column in the Good Weekend (for which, as it happens, I used to write feature articles)....
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The Australian Medical Association - the professional association for our doctors and medical students - says that it is committed to "enduring professional values, excellence in teaching and research and the delivery of high-quality health care to all". You'd therefore expect, when it comes to giving advice to young people on mental health, that it would be particularly careful about...
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The ABC's recent MentalAs coverage of mental health was, as I've mentioned earlier, a positive initiative. It gave viewers - and listeners - more than a hint of the human dimensions of our mental health care system; it raised funds for research and who knows, might have encouraged people to be more understanding of those who are suffering personal distress...
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A couple of days ago, I bought my two grand-daughters a packet of jumbo marshmallows. They are possibly their favourite treat, and the younger one, in particular, heads straight for the cupboard where they are "hidden" as soon as she arrives for a visit. If you spend any time around psychologists, you will learn that marshmallows and children have tremendous...
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The ABC's Mental As coverage (as I've said) is wonderful. But it isn't looking at some of the critical issues relating to the delivery of effective mental health services in this country. The UK has some of the same issues, but at least they are being talked about over there, most recently by Professor Peter Beresford, in a piece in...
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I wrote earlier about my enthusiasm for the ABC's Mental As initiative, but I continue to be amazed by the depth of the conversation that it has helped to stimulate ... and struggling ever so slightly to keep track of it all. Last night's offerings included a Q&A program (which produced a stark, unintended illustration of political discomfort with some...
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I have just returned from a busy week in Hobart, where I joined my fellow national directors of the Australian Psychological Society at a number of board meetings, followed by the annual conference. I attended several interesting sessions and presented a research paper detailing the improved treatment outcomes that Psychology Melbourne is obtaining from our personal matching sessions. Our paper...
A disturbing comment piece in The Guardian by Professor Paul Verhaeghe, chair of the department for psychoanalysis and counselling psychology at the University of Ghent, suggests that 30 years of neoliberalism, free-market forces and privatisation have resulted in a serious deterioration in people's values and personalities Professor Verhaeghe says that decades of research and his own therapeutic practice have convinced him that the...
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Last week Business Insider picked up on a study by US-based jobs site CareerBuilder which showed that managers were just as, if not more likely to suffer workplace bullying as other employees. The most common source of the bullying, according to the survey, was the boss, or someone higher up in the organisation, although in 46 per cent of cases,...