Kids and Lifebooks: Tips for Social Workers

Social workers: Learn how to help foster children understand their past and then move onto their future by creating a Lifebook.Bolster this child's self esteem with a book all about them.

Is China Testing Bio Weapons on Its Own People?

Well the conspiracy theorists are out in full force I see. I had an interesting meeting the other day at a coffee shop and talked with a highly paranoid chap, who claimed to have some real insider information. He said that the Chinese were experimenting with their own populations with new vaccines for bird flu.

Lesson Plans that Reach the Multiple Intelligences

American schools have traditionally favored those students who excel in the linguistic and analytical arenas because these skills are highly valued in our culture. Unfortunately, this traditional approach leaves certain students behind to stumble blindly through an educational system which ignores their unique abilities. This is not to say that the development of linguistic and analytical skills should be abandoned in favor of nontraditional approaches to education. Rather, traditional and nontraditional approaches should be combined to formulate a method of education that is best suited to the students who populate our classrooms.

What is Regression Therapy?

Regression therapy is a therapeutic process that uses one's earlier life experiences as source material to resolve current problems. This concept is similar to psychodynamic therapy. However, regression therapy is more solution-focused, whereas psychodynamic therapy is more interested in the process and the experience.

Ancient Art, Modern Science: An Introduction to Modern Hypnotherapy

Clinical Hypnotherapy is as old as human civilization; and with good reason-- it's natural, safe, painless, and it works.

How do I Choose a Research Topic for my Coursework in Psychology?

Designing your own psychology investigation is a great opportunity to go deeply into a topic that interests you. If you are curious enough about a topic then you also have the potential to discover something more about it. As a result, not only will you enjoy your coursework but it will also be reflected in your final grade. It this article I give you some tips on how to choose a design for your investigation that is right for you.

Music And The Brain

Recent research on music and the brain shows that you can increase your brainpower with music. That is, if you listen to the right type.

A Stolen Smile: How To Interpret Dreams of Losing Your Teeth

When we have little or no sense of who we are, adaptation and the desire to please others can lead to real confusion and rapid self-destruction; we begin to lose valuable parts of ourselves. One evening in a small dream group, an attractive Asian woman in her early twenties told me about a recurring nightmare that was really upsetting her...

Mankind's Fascination with the Human Mind

Ever since mankind could ask the serious questions, he has pondered what makes the human mind tick? Why do we think the things we do? And thus philosophy has been able to capture the imagination in countless hours of thought.

Why Do We Only Use Part of Our Brains?

It is a well-known fact that we use only a small percentage of our total brain capacity. Yet many ask, why not use more of it? Why waste it? Does this indicate that humans are stupid and fail to use their whole brains?

Sex Abuse and Mind Control Starts at the Top

Well there sure is a whole lot of discussion these days with regards to sex abuse in the world. We have Catholic Priests molesting children, child sex slaves in many countries and abductions all over the place.

Walking Disorders and Chemicals of the Brain

There is a new trend in psychology, which tends to believe that if humans can mostly control the chemical releases in their bodies and that those people who cannot are labeled as walking disorders. And usually prescribed drugs like Prozac.

Rage Of The Tortured Child

Tormented childhoods produce high achievers?

Bipolar Disorder: Knowing When More Help is Needed

Help with mental and emotional problems can come in many forms. It can be friends that keep you from feeling lonely. It can be inspiration from a spiritual leader. It can be talking things over with a counselor. Or it could be getting a prescription that helps relieve symptoms of problems. All of these are acceptable and functional ways of getting help.

Human and Animal Reasoning and Similarities

Are humans so special and divine as depicted in religious doctrine? Or are humans and their brains built to function and reason similar to that of all higher order mammals and animals? The question itself is not new, indeed it has been discussed by philosophers throughout time.