People suffering from anxiety and depression prefer to receive counselling over medication because they feel it addresses their underlying problems and not just their symptoms.
This is one of the key findings in a review of UK and international research studies into the clinical-effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and acceptability of counselling. The review, Counselling Read the rest of this entry »
Mom and Dad are going to flip out over my 3.3 GPA and failure to land a top internship.
Such anxieties, common among college students, can harm self-esteem and make it more difficult to adjust to school. But a new University of Central Florida study has found that students’ anxieties often are based on exaggerated perceptions of what their parents expect.
The problem, UCF psychologist Kimberly Renk says, is that many parents and students hold different perceptions Read the rest of this entry »
A paper by Giovanni A. Fava and associates of the University of Bologna published in the April issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics summarizes the evidence which supports the seriousness of agoraphobia as an invalidating disease. At the same time it questions the excessive emphasis on panic which has been attributed in the past decade and the role of pharmaceutical industry in this attribution.
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