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Not wanting to labour the point, I decided that I'd had enough to say on the topic with my two posts last week on the way management and building designers seem to ignore the downside of hot desking and open-plan offices. The psychology of office accommodation is one of the topics that the team of occupational psychologists and management coaches...
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When you consider that access to Medicare rebates for mental health treatment depends on a referral from a GP, the fact that - according to an article in Medical Observer - some of them hold unhelpful attitudes to people with mental illness is a little disturbing. If a medical professional happens to hold prejudices that lead him to view people...
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One of the questions raised by Australian Population Census data of recent decades is whether we might be experiencing the era of the disappearing parent. The data, picked up in a report on family trends compiled by the Australian Institute of Family Studies, shows that among families with children under 18, the proportion of mothers in the workforce has steadily...
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It was quite a coincidence to discover an article in the online version of the human relations publication HC Magazine, covering some of the areas I touched on yesterday in my post on the psychological implications of physical office space. HC initially pointed out that hot-desking has positives and negatives, and quoted Keti Malkoski, a research psychologist at Schiavello, who...
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It's too bad Australian office managers and architects and designers don't generally listen to overseas radio programs, because in missing out on a BBC Radio 4 program called In Search of the Perfect Office, presented by Claudia Hammond, they lost the opportunity to discover just how much their choice of materials and use of space were costing them, in terms...
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Psychologists tend to have mixed views of hypnosis. On the one hand, Sigmund Freud used it with his early patients as he developed his theories on the unconscious, before switching to free association and "the talking cure". On the other hand the decidedly unprofessional antics of stage hypnotism make many psychologists more than a little wary. As the American Psychological...
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All the members of the team of Melbourne psychologists with expertise in relationships have a lot of respect for the work of John Gottman, and the insights he gained working in the so-called "love lab" at the University of Washington. Over at Psyblog, Jeremy Dean obviously shares that respect. He has posted on "The Four Things That Can Kill A Relationship Stone...
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One of the most powerful classes on Psychology Melbourne's psycho-educational "curriculum" begins this week, offering women the hope of creating a new future by learning how to write down the past. "Writing Your Life: a workshop for women" is a three-week workshop (Thursday evenings 6pm to 7.30pm) led by Dr Miriam Grossbaum. Miriam gained her doctorate in counselling psychology while...
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We couldn't help hoping, reading an article in one of the weekend newspapers this morning about the devastating effects on business of unresolved workplace conflicts - they can chew up 20 to 30 per cent of managers' and supervisors' time - that the Australian Psychological Society's Psychologically Healthy Workplace Program gets the enthusiastic support of Australian employers. The fact is...
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Last week's program on ABC Radio National's Life Matters which looked at research by sexologist Elaine George on declining sexual desire among many Australian men - largely the result of stress and fatigue - probably won't be too much of a surprise for anyone who has struggled to maintain the elements of a healthy personal and family life while coping...