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Classical Conditioning Theory
Classical conditioning included a reflective or an automatic response that transferred from one stimulus to another. Pavlov's experiments included how the saliva aids to digestive process. He would give the dog a meal for sometime and would record its saliva while the dog ate the meal.Read more…Advocates Of Examination Malpractice
The derogative falling of our educational standard is becoming uncontrollable, the pollution of our education by both stakeholders and students is now pointing towards the wrong direction. Our dependency on external technology results from our inability to purge out this menace. Nigerians' known with our emphases on certificate orientation [i.Read more…Viktor Frankl: Existentialist and the Father of Logotherapy
Back Ground and DevelopmentBeing a former student of Freud, Viktor Frankl has a psycholanalyical orientation, however, he was influenced by the writing of existential philosophers like Heidegger, Scheler, and Jaspers. Frankl begin to develop his own existential philosophy and therapeutic technique. To avoid confusion with Bingswanger's existential analysis, Frankl coined the term Logotherapy.Read more…The Therapeutic Approach in Counselling
Origins of Therapy, Therapy in Counselling, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)CBT is an insight-focused therapy that emphasises recognising and changing negative thoughts and maladaptative beliefs. The approach is based on the theoretical rationale that the way people feel and behave is determined by how they perceive and structure their experience. CBT proposes that change comes about by changing the client's thinking about the situation.Read more…Cocktails, Neurons and Nanos: Super-Cognition?
Improving overall cognitive capability is becoming as simple as consuming a pill...An interesting paradox has been the axis of much attention in the fields of pharmacy, brain research and ethics in the last few years. The advent of new technologies, particularly in the field of brain research, has induced scientists to improve the treatment of several conditions, such as Alzheimer’s disease, sleep disorders and dementia.Read more…Automatic Activation
One of the fundamental issues in modern psychology is how people understand and interpret the world. People understand the world by relating what they are currently experiencing to the knowledge that they have previously accumulated.The authors of the article “Belief in a just world and social perception: evidence for automatic activation” discuss the issue of stereotype beliefs.Read more…Personal Traits Towards Effective Counselling
What are the personal qualities associated with being an effective Counsellor? Counselling theorists and researchers have given this question much attention and research has identified a framework of personal skills which are shared among highly effective counsellors, despite their theoretical orientation.Self-awareness helps counsellors to understand their client's needs and separate those from personal orientations.Read more…Confidentiality and Professional Ethics in Counselling
Have you ever found yourself involved in an ethical dilemma? Even if you are not a counsellor or mental health professional, it is most likely that at some stage of your life, you have been directly or indirectly involved in a situation in which ethical conduct was to be considered.The growth and standardisation of service industries, as well as the increasing awareness and obligation imposed by Privacy legislation, has led to the development of codes of conduct designed to protect both sides of the professional relationship - particularly the interests of clients.Read more…My Myers-Briggs Rant
I'm just about to whack one of the sacred cows of the HR world, the Meyers-Briggs Type Inventory (MBTI) test, so if you're a big fan of the MBTI you might want to quit now, or read on and flame me in the comments.I'll summarize the MBTI by saying that it's a personality inventory test based on Jung's theory of opposites. It assumes that there are four important components of a personality and that each is binary: either you are and introvert (I) or an extrovert (E).Read more…Counselling with Difference
One of the foremost challenges facing counselling professionals is to understand the complex role that client diversity plays in their work. In counselling, each client's needs and objectives need to be considered and used to guide the counselling process. These needs vary for each individual according to factors such as personality, culture, gender and age.Read more…Lucid Dreaming - The Importance of Dream Recall
The degree to which people can recall their normal run of the mill dreams varies greatly amongst different people.Some people will recall most of their dreams throughout the night whilst others will claim never to dream because they never recall any.The problem here is that to successfully master the art of lucid dreaming, it is essential to have a good ability to recall what you dreamt about the night before.Read more…Increase Your Psychic Awarness
Any form of ‘Psychic Awareness’ allows the person possessing it to see and sense events beyond what is immediately occurring around us, or what is ‘Obvious’. It is thus sometimes referred to as ‘extra sensory perception’, a virtual extension of our usual sensory prowess.Everyone poses certain amount of Psychic Awareness or Ability.Read more…Whom do you call Psychics?
All of us have certain amount of extra-sensual powers. That sudden feeling that there is someone outside the door in spite of not having heard the bell, or that horrifying dream about your aunt’s illness which somehow came true are all the silent work of that little extra-sensory capacities you and I both possess. Usually you brush them off as your sixth sense working over time, but what they actually are short glimpses of the subconscious potential you posses to mentally connect with events happening or about to happen around you.Read more…The Word: Personality
Life is a learning experience. The complexity of human behaviour is finely related to the several mechanisms which define how, what and when we learn about the world. People devote varied levels of energy to observe, memorise and recount the ongoing stimuli around them – and that focus is the magical touch which produces the fascinating ambiguity of mankind.Read more…Trauma and Counselling
Trauma, stress and memoryThe word 'trauma' originates from the Greek 'wound', and it refers to both psychological and physiological aspects. Trauma occurs as a result of a serious event and it has deep roots in various levels of the human mind and behaviour.What causes trauma?Read more…Effective Counselling and the Objectivity Challenge
Most people tend to be compassionate. Perhaps it is a human evolutionary trait, or simply the manner in which we have been trained to understand and act upon our emotions. Or it could stem from the need to help others in order to achieve a sense of belonging.Read more…Groups and Group Counselling
Group counselling is a challenging and dynamic form of counselling that requires all-round professional skills from counsellors. It implies that any challenges a counsellor may find in helping an individual can potentially duplicate, triplicate, or vastly multiply - however, the more intricate the challenge is, the higher the rewards. In this article, we define the basic elements of group counselling and provide several guidelines - after all, the core prerequisite of understanding group dynamics is not only part of the counsellor's professional framework, but part of a much larger perspective: the framework of life.Read more…Burnout and Counsellor Self-Care Strategies
Self-care is an intrinsic, continuous and highly important activity performed by any professional, particularly those involved in health care. Also called the 'inner therapy', this practice aims to ensure that both mental and physical health of the professional is in good shape. So why is self-care for Counsellors important?Read more…What Does Science Owe to Dreaming? And It's Not Pizza!
Many people, and certainly many scientists, think dreams are trivial and meaningless fantasies. Probably the side effect of late night pizza-eating. Let us examine the "pizza hypothesis.Read more…Doctor, Is This Person Dangerous?
John Hinkley has been found not dangerous and is allowed over night family visits. Following his final release from jail John Thanos brutally murdered 3 teenagers in two separate incidents. Every time I hear a story like this one I feel anguish in the pit of my stomach: Columbine, Jonesboro, Littleton, the Morrow Federal Building, the Unibomber, and many more.Read more…
Most Recent Articles in Psychology category
- Serious Problems in Psychotherapy Require Serious Medicine - By: Steven A. Frankel
As a psychotherapy patient, do you wonder whether the work you and your therapist are doing will succeed and produce lasting results? Patients frequently remain in the dark about whether treatment is actually succeeding. The solution to this dilemma is a treatment considerably broader in scope than conventional psychological and psychiatric therapy. In conducting this innovative method of treatment, the therapist assumes the kind of clinical responsibility that is typical of a physician. He or she takes responsibility for addressing the full range of the patient's presenting and underlying problems, and coordinating all aspects of the patient's treatment. - Help With Psychology Dissertation Available Here! - By: Maki Kopper
When thinking how to write a psychology dissertation, you to analyze, to understand, to evaluate and contrast, to reveal cause and effect... - Getting the Most Out of Therapy: How to Collaborate With Your Therapist - By: Steven Frankel, M.D.
If you are in therapy, you and your therapist have already invested a significant amount of time and energy into your work, and you both have the same goal in mind: helping you achieve your own objectives for emotional growth and healing. If and when a difference of opinion over the treatment does occur, rather than walking away from your therapist, it is usually well worth the effort try to find a collaborative way to again go forward. - Colors in Dreams and Their Meaning - By: Daniel Zoleta
Dream interpretation is the process of assigning meaning to dreams. In many of the ancient societies, including Egypt and Greece, dreaming was considered a supernatural communication or a means of divine intervention, whose message could be unravelled by those with certain powers. In modern times, various schools of psychology have offered theories about the meaning of dreams. - Boost Your IQ: Techniques to Increase Your Intelligence Quotient Today - By: Evgheny Stivenson
It is possible to enhance your intelligence quotient in a matter of 10 minutes. Some techniques to do so are discussed below. Don't you want to enhance your IQ? Of course, you can use the brain power exercises and techniques. But these are long term and you would need to regularly practice them. What if you want to boost your IQ now, when you don't have more than 10 minutes. - Online Psychology Programs - By: Mary Jackson
Students pursuing psychology online degrees learn about the human mind and behavior and its biological, social and cognitive bases, as well how to apply this knowledge to practical problems. Student enrolled in online psychology programs can choose to specialize in areas of psychology such as educational, child, clinical, sport, forensic, industrial, organizational, social and marriage and family therapy. - Toronto Psychologist and Psychoanalyst - By: Sandra Palef
If you want to get an idea of what psychotherapy is all about, watch an episode of the television series The Sopranos. Tony Soprano is a mafia don in New Jersey who is in talk therapy with Dr. Jennifer Melfi. He has panic attacks, loses consciousness, and has slipped into a depression. All of this seems irrational to him, but he can’t help it. He has some hidden agenda lying just outside his awareness that is controlling his feelings and behavior. He doesn’t believe in therapy at the start, convinced he cannot talk about himself and that it won’t help anyway. He resists, evading Dr. Melfi’s questions, withdrawing, and even walking out. But eventually he is intrigued. - Magic Happens When Eternity Meets Linear Time in Dream Work - By: Ron Masa, Ph.D.
Even if you're speeding around town, frantically running late, your dog in the back seat is perfectly on time; centered in the Now.I once thought "eternity" meant: Tuesday, Wednesday, etc. forever. - One Dream Interprets Another to Predict the U.S. Mid-Term Election Results - By: Ron Masa, Ph.D.
Dreams come from wherever we do. They regularly predict the future and they link people together in the world of dreams. In the following case one dream even arrived to interpret another dream! - Dream Telepathy: Some Dream Workers Make Late Night House Calls - By: Ron Masa, Ph.D.
"Not until a person dissolves, can he or she know what union is." -RumiNothing seems more obvious than that every human being is a distinct and separate entity. America champions the rights of the individual and self-determination.