Like a lot of other work that used to be conducted primarily in person, counseling and therapy services have been abruptly shifting to an online-only format – all while trying to figure out where we fall on the essential services totem and interpret the mixed bag of stay-at-home orders handed down from state and local…
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In the Years Ahead, Addressing the Long-Term Psychological Effects of the COVID-19 Outbreak Will Fall to Today’s Psychology Students
With sirens constantly sounding through the streets of the major cities of the world, and bodies piling up in temporary morgues set up in freezer trucks outside hospitals, the physical effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are gripping the attention of the world right now. With the worst yet to come, that focus isn’t going to…
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Your Guide to Transitioning to Online-Only Psychology Courses:
The Six Things You Can’t Live Without When COVID-19 Forces Your Psychology Program to Go Online With all the chaos that COVID-19 is unleashing on the world, the plight of college students in traditional psychology programs who suddenly find themselves going exclusively online isn’t something that’s exactly grabbing headlines. Still, we get it— the waves…
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Top 10 Drinks that Will Help You Forget the COVID-19 Outbreak Just Turned You Into a Home School Teacher
The reality of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic is starting to set in for everyone. For grocery store staff it means hordes of toilet paper scavengers ravaging the shelves from dawn until closing. For first responders, doctors, and nurses, it means dealing with the horrific life and death choices of critically ill patients swamping emergency rooms.…
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Home School Bootcamp: 5 Easy Steps to Take to Avoid Killing Your Kids Before COVID-19 Does
By Scott Wilson Let’s be honest; if you are the average parent, you probably wanted to kill your kids four or five times a day even before you were stuck inside with them 24/7 for what is starting to look like will be… a very long time. This isn’t going to be like the world’s…
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Why Working from Home During the COVID-19 Outbreak Is No Vacation: Top 5 Issues… and Workable Solutions
It didn’t take long for the memes to hit the web as companies started complying with mandatory quarantine policies by shifting all employees who could do their jobs remotely to work-from-home status: a stream of posts about “new coworkers” that feature pet photos… the obligatory no-pants teleconferencing selfies… tweets about the joys of all-day pajama…
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How We Picked The Top Undergraduate Programs in Sports Psychology
Every sports psychology program is unique. That can make identifying the best a challenge—when there is no broad industry agreement on educational models for sports psych, who gets to make the call about which is best? Our approach is to use good old-fashioned human judgement and a rational evaluation process that returns to the fundamentals:…
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An Unforgettable Memory: How Your Memory Works and Ways You Can Make It Work Better
When we look at a photograph, what do we see? People? A place? Perhaps our most recent selfie? Regardless of the photo, we like to think that we’re gazing upon a memory. In reality, our focus is only on a singular moment in time. The real memory is inside our brains. We can access a…
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Everything You Need To Know About Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Narcissism is a word we usually throw around for people who take one too many selfies or double take when they walk by a mirror or a reflective building. But narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a serious psychological disorder that involves patterns of self-centered thinking--but not quite in the way we think. Instead, people with…
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How To Help Those Considering Suicide
We are facing a suicide epidemic in the United States, and throughout the world. Suicide rates are up by 30 percent across the nation since 1999, according to a recent report by federal health officials. That increase comes even as the CDC notes that only about half the people who died by suicide had a…
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