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La ‘compasión por sí mismas’ puede ayudar a las personas divorciadas a sanar
DOMINGO, 25 de septiembre (HealthDay News) -- La compasión por sí mismas puede ayudar a las personas recién divorciadas a pasar uno de los periodos más difíciles de la vida, sugieren investigadores. Explicaron que la compasión por sí mismo, una combinación de amabilidad con uno mismo, un reconocimiento de la humanidad común y la capacidad de dejar que las emociones dolorosas pasen, "pueden fomentar la resistencia y los resultados positivos ante el divorcio". Los investigadores de la Universidad de Arizona estudiaron a 38 hombres y 67 mujeres con una edad promedio de 40 años que habían estado casados durante más de trece años y que se habían divorciado tres a cuatro meses antes, en promedio.
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Researchers question learning-styles theory
ABC News: For years, the conventional wisdom has been that everyone has a different dominant way of learning. Some are visual learners who prefer studying pictures or graphics. Some say they are auditory learners, absorbing information best through lectures and conversation. Others consider themselves kinesthetic learners who benefit from hands-on activities. A robust industry has formed, marketing materials to educators for dozens of learning-style models. There are tools based on a learner's personality type. Others are based on how analytical or creative individuals are. Some even delve into the optimal lighting and seating for workspaces.
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Rambert Dance Company: Dance cosies up to science
The Telegraph: The gap between science and the humanities, as identified in C P Snow’s celebrated lecture The Two Cultures, has in recent years been conscientiously bridged: Ian McEwan writes a novel about global warming, while Brian Cox popularises physics for the layman. Somewhat surprisingly, however, it is in the field of contemporary dance that science has become seriously voguish. Last year, Wayne McGregor’s FAR fashioned movement out of ideas from the Age of Enlightenment, while in 2009 David Bintley’s E=mc² took on the theory of relativity. Not exactly Romeo and Juliet.
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Q & A With Psychological Scientist Alan Kazdin (Part 2)
Below is part 2 of Kazdin's Q & A: 1. Do therapists you know believe that expanding their media outlets interfere with patients' progress or encourage it? I do not have knowledge of what therapists currently believe about the important question you ask. The nice feature is that our beliefs can serve as a basis for doing the research to find out what does and does not interfere with progress. We know already that patients can profit enormously from media-based (e.g., web, internet, smartphone) treatment. As a mode of delivering treatment there are many examples that this can be done effectively.
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Rethinking Gifted Education Policy – A Call to Action
Children with extraordinary academic talents should receive the kind of coaching and training opportunities that are typically reserved for performance and athletic abilities, researchers argue.
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Q & A With Psychological Scientist Alan Kazdin (Part 1)
Yale University psychological scientist Alan Kazdin and his co-author Stacey Blase have called for a drastic change to the way in which the United States treats mental illness. Read about Kazdin’s research and watch a video from the 2010 APS Annual Convention here. Yesterday, we asked our twitter and facebook followers to ask Kazdin questions about his research. Well – we got a great response, from evidence-based psychotherapy to cellphone applications...you have definitely put him to work! Below is part 1 of Kazdin’s Q & A: 1. Is there really an established evidence base for what works in psychotherapy?
