In his 2015 book, “Pavlov’s Dogs: Groundbreaking Experiments in Psychology,” author Adam Hart-Davis poses this question in the beginning of a chapter that discusses group conflict: […]
How Mental Health Professionals Should Handle Lesbian Partner Abuse: A Look at the Research By Kenny Luck, M.A., A.B.D. (Ph.D. Candidate) According to research over the […]
The Art of “Thank You”: Expressing Gratitude in Today’s High-Tech Environment Since the dawn of the so-called “internet” or “digital” age, some quiet voices have been […]
How does human perception work? Certainly one could provide a biological account of the anatomy of the human eye and it’s component parts. But that’s not […]
Any science outside of physics (including “hard sciences” such as biology and chemistry as well as “soft sciences” such as psychology and sociology) sometimes suffer from […]
An important question that has arisen over the decades is: What is the ability of minors to give informed consent to receive psychotherapy treatment? Research exploring […]
Assessing the Professional Identity of School Counselors In the wake of the Parkland, Fl., school shooting last month, a debate has been raging—among other things—about whether […]
Let’s face it: Sometimes life is hard. And sometimes, we all may need help with navigating our way through the messes that life sometimes hands us. […]
For decades, researchers have been interested in studying the effectiveness of the collaboration between mental health workers and clergy. After all, both professions—although appearing differently on […]
A buzz phrase that has been making its way around recently has been “The Dunning-Kruger Effect.” When I first heard about it, I was immediately suspicious […]
In a study published last year, researchers reported that about “20 percent of suicide decedents have had contact with a mental health professional within one month […]