Tuesday, 7 August 2012

Are you ready for therapy? Facing the stigma - or facing yourself?

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      When I was in my undergrad, the psychology professor talked about the stigma of seeking therapy.  He said that those in the medical f...
Saturday, 4 August 2012

Adult Cognitive Development (psych notes cont...)

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Three levels of Adult Cognitive Development,   Labouvie-Vief (1990 B) 1.   Intra systemic   level:   corresponds to Piaget’s formal opera...
Wednesday, 1 August 2012

Perry's research found stages of progression in students' thought processes over four years (psych notes)

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1.  Initially rigid to flexible. 2.  Recognize the existence of a wide variety of ideas. 3.  Come to see knowledge and values as relative....
Sunday, 29 July 2012

How does your Saturday night compare to mine in Toronto?

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     There is a lot of controversy lately about violence in Toronto.   Many people who complain about Toronto don’t even live here though t...
Wednesday, 25 July 2012

Integrative Thinking - cont....psych notes

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Integrative thinking is the ability to summarize the main points of an event or story (see Labouvie et all 1982, p 247).  Older adults are a...
Saturday, 21 July 2012

Thought and Morale intelligence in Adulthood (psych notes)

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   Organismic and Contextual Theories emphasize charting the qualitative changes - universal and individual - in thought and morale thinking...
Wednesday, 18 July 2012

Who do I counsel, you ask?

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One of the first questions I am ever asked is who do I counsel?  I normally respond everyone.  I have counselled children, women and men as ...