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Client-directed therapy technique drastically reduces divorce/separation rates

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Nov 13, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Using four simple questions to generate client-directed feedback can greatly increase the chances that struggling couples will stay together, according to a recently published study.

Measuring the road to mental health

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Aug 13, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Takuya Minami, assistant professor of counseling and applied psychology at Northeastern, is doing something that might have made even Dr. Freud blanch. Minami is trying to quantify how well ...

When adult patients have anxiety disorder, their children need help too

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Jun 01, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

In what is believed to be the first U.S. study designed to prevent anxiety disorders in the children of anxious parents, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center have found that a family-based program reduced symptoms ...

Intervention reduces delinquent teenage pregancy rates

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Jun 01, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

A program aimed at reducing criminal behavior in juvenile justice teens has yielded a surprising side benefit. The program is also reducing the teens' rate of pregnancy, according to a new study out this week.

Researchers develop better treatment for social fears

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Apr 30, 2009 | 4 / 5 (3) | 0

While just about all of us would admit to being shy from time to time in social situations, about one in 20 Australians suffer from an extreme form of shyness known as social phobia.