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SAUSALITO, Calif., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Marin County nonprofit CorStone announces the successful launch of its Children's Resiliency Program (CRP) in New Delhi, India to provide social-emotional, conflict management and other life skills training to youth, primarily 12-18 year old girls, in high poverty communities. The CRP - India represents the first of many opportunities for CorStone to reach at-risk youth in vulnerable communities worldwide using culturally adapted methods and...
NEW YORK, Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Joshua Ehrlich, Ph.D., will be a featured speaker at The Conference Board's Leadership Excellence Week on October 21. Josh's workshop entitled, "Stop - Reflect - Focus: Leadership and Learning from the Inside Out," brings a novel approach to leading through focused attention. "Technology and the pace of business blow a deluge of information at us and our attention is scattered," says Josh. "The disciplines of reflection, focus and mindfulness enable us to...
Parents in low-income environments, especially in rural regions, are more prone to depression if they lack social support, U.S. researchers say. Researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Kansas State University and University of Wisconsin in Madison examined the relationships among family income, social support, parental depression and parenting in 290 predominantly rural families with children at risk for disruptive or socially withdrawn behaviors. Structural equation...
Researchers have what they say is the first direct proof of a very old idea: that when we use a tool"”even for just a few minutes"”it changes the way our brain represents the size of our body. In other words, the tool becomes a part of what is known in psychology as our body schema, according to a report published in the June 23rd issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press publication."Since the origin of the concept of body schema, the idea of its functional plasticity has always been...
A U.S. study challenges the view that people with some genotypes are at greater risk for depression, anxiety and abuse of drugs and alcohol, researchers said. The researchers studied infant monkeys from four different rearing conditions to examine how social context and different forms of early adversity interact with genotype to influence behavior. Animals reared in small social groups were more likely to be aggressive and anxious, particularly among those with a low activity MAOA genotype....
Study finds mindfulness-based cognitive therapy as effective as anti-depressant medicationResearch shows for the first time that a group-based psychological treatment, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), could be a viable alternative to prescription drugs for people suffering from long-term depression.In a study, published today (1 December 2008) in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, MBCT proved as effective as maintenance anti-depressants in preventing a relapse and...
By HOWARD COHEN Our worries. They're pounding like Beethoven's Fifth: Bailouts, buyouts. Recession, depression. Enter the meditative practice of mindfulness. Born of Buddhist roots, it's increasingly recognized as a measure to calm the mind's chatter and elevate the brain's thinking and organizational processes. Mindfulness seminars. Mindfulness books. A place in Virginia Beach - the labyrinth paved into a patio at the Association for Research and Enlightenment - where visitors can...
Children who are concerned about parents arguing are prone to school problemsChildren who worry about how their parents get along with each other are more likely than other children to have psychological problems. Now a new study says that children who worry a lot about conflicts between their parents are more likely to have problems in school because they have more difficulty paying attention to the tasks before them.The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Rochester,...
The seemingly nonsensical Zen practice of "thinking about not thinking" could help free the mind of distractions, new brain scans reveal. This suggests Zen meditation could help treat attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (so-called ADD or ADHD), obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety disorder, major depression and other disorders marked by distracting thoughts. In the last decade, there has been a resurgence of scientific research into meditation, due in...
By Li, Ming-hui College students often live stressful lives, yet some college students appear to adapt better than their peers in similar situations. Active coping appears to be a vital factor that contributes to a successful adaptation. This study explored relative effectiveness among stress, secure attachment, and the trait of resilience in predicting active coping in high, general, and low stress situations. General stress situations are referred to as a combination of high and low stress...
