This article: http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&id=35872&cn=117 discusses the practices of Rick Hanson in his new book Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom. In it, Hanson links the body’s responses to focusing on the present and consciously dwelling on positive experiences and aspects of our lives to a make us happier. Specifically, he recommends:
“Turn positive […]
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Psychiatrist, Dr. Charles Raison, regularly answers questions about mental health on cnn.com. A recent article discusses the connection of stress and depression:
“We toss the word ‘depression’ around a lot, as if we all know what it feels like to be depressed. But in fact, depression has a number of emotional faces. Sometimes it feels like […]
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Research consistently indicates that older adults utilize mental health services at significantly lower rates than younger adults, yet the overall prevalence of mental health disorders remains roughly the same across all age cohorts (Narrow, et al. 2002). Therefore, even though older adults represent 13% of the U.S. population, they receive only 6% of community mental […]
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Pet therapy - what is the benefit to older adults? As I sit in my office, my 2 cats are contentedly sleeping away the morning. It reminds me of the value and importance that some of our older adults place on their relationship with their pet. Some of our clients share their small senior apartments […]
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Every day we hear and see messages which lead us to believe that “getting old” in America is someting to be avoided and feared. We live in a youth-oriented culture. The media bombards us with products and information on anti-aging products.
Yet the medical field is continually researching ways we can prolong our lives. We want to […]
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One of the benefits to teaching at a university is access to the volumes of research in the Library. One day, while researching articles for the class I teach, I came up on an interesting article, Value of Interpersonal Therapy in Older Adults with Different IPT Foci, in the Jan-Feb 2003 volume of the American […]
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I just found this recent report on the website of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Science Update section, which promotes preventive treatment of Depression, through medications or psychotherapy (talk therapy):
“For the first time, researchers show that preventive treatment with an antidepressant medication or talk therapy can significantly reduce the risk or delay the […]
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“Life can only be understood backwards” said 19th century Danish philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard.
The clinical social workers at Pathways for Aging, often use Life Review as part of our treatment plan, for older adults suffering from Depression and loss of Self-Esteem. Aiding them in gaining perspective on their lives as a whole and […]
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