Daily Digest: 8 October 2012
We’ve searched the web for interesting articles, news, resources and tools – so you don’t have to. Below are today’s featured Daily Digest posts:
Off-the-couch mental health therapies
New research brings new approaches. Here’s a look at four fields: mindfulness practice, guided imagery, somatic experiencing and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing. Read more…
For Most People, Phone Therapy as Effective as Face-to-Face
A new study in England reveals that for most people, cognitive therapy over the phone is just as effective as meeting with a psychotherapist face-to-face. Read more…
Psychology Receives Challenge to Clean Up Its Act
Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman wants psychologists who study social priming to restore credibility with open data and by having multiple labs repeat experiments to make sure that results are robust. Read more…
First Successful Clinical Trial to Protect the Brain from Damage Caused by Stroke
A team of Canadian scientists and clinicians, led by Dr. Michael Hill of the Calgary Stroke Program at Foothills Medical Centre and University of Calgary’s Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI), have demonstrated that a neuroprotectant drug, developed by Dr. Michael Tymianski at the Krembil Neuroscience Centre, located at the Toronto Western Hospital, protects the human brain against the damaging effects of stroke. Read more…
Families in trouble
Does counselling have a place in interventions to help ‘troubled families’ break free from the cycle of disadvantage? Catherine Jackson talks to practitioners on the frontline. Read more…
