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Newsweek on Therapists’ Aversion to Science by Dr. Kalea Chapman Doctor of Psychology

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health In the psychological community this article is relatively old news, but it has stirred up a very lively debate. For the moment, I’m just posting Ken Pope’s summary ... Read on »

Internet-Driven Loss of Human Connection by Dr. Kalea Chapman Doctor of Psychology

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health That’s not the gist of the article, actually. It’s a phrase taken from a brief piece on Salon.com by Charles Barber, the author of Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry ... Read on »

iPods for Autism? by Dr. Kalea Chapman Doctor of Psychology

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health Here’s an interesting piece from the Boston Herald. I got wind of this through Ken Pope’s listserv. The edits are his, too:Sue Pederson knows that the teenage boys ... Read on »

DSM-V Badly Off Track by Dr. Kalea Chapman Doctor of Psychology

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health According to Ken Pope, that’s the title of an interview with Allen Frances at Psychiatric Times. Dr. Frances was chair of the DSM-IV Task Force and of the department of ... Read on »

DSM-V: A New Animal? by Dr. Kalea Chapman Doctor of Psychology

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health A few interesting tidbits I got from Ken Pope’s digest of a Los Angeles Times article on the current construction of the new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual:But all ag ... Read on »

Doubt Is Our Product by Dr. Kalea Chapman Doctor of Psychology

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health Here’s a brief quote from a Psychology Today interview with David Healy, author of Let Them Eat Prozac. I got wind of the interview from the ever vigilant Furious Season ... Read on »

Lexapro For Teens by Dr. Kalea Chapman Doctor of Psychology

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health Here’s an excerpt from Furious Seasons on why not antidepressants for kids:Because anti-depressants represent America’s quick fix culture: compare our approach wi ... Read on »

ADHD: Medicate or Nature Walk? by Dr. Kalea Chapman Doctor of Psychology

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health From a New York Times article on the importance of recess, an interesting assertion regarding the effectiveness of medication v. nature walks for ADHD:A small study of childr ... Read on »

When Testing is Damaging: “Stereotype Threat” by Dr. Kalea Chapman Doctor of Psychology

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health From a Washington Post article by Shankar Vedantam “How a Self-Fulfilling Stereotype Can Drag Down Performance” on some research that suggests that standardized te ... Read on »

When Your Husband Has to Hide the Belts by Dr. Kalea Chapman Doctor of Psychology

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health If you had any doubt that having bipolar disorder (manic depression) is extremely difficult, check out this heartbreaking post from Marissa Miller at Depression Introspection. ... Read on »

New Office by Dr. Kalea Chapman Doctor of Psychology

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health I’ve just opened a new office. A fruitful and pleasant post-doc with Rose City Counseling Center has ended, and I’ve just completed my second week in private pract ... Read on »

Senior Care: Profit or Non-Profit? by Dr. Kalea Chapman Doctor of Psychology

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health Here’s an excerpt (courtesy of Ken Pope) from an article in U.S.A. Today. In brief, the finding is that for-profit elder care facilities deliver inferior care. The artic ... Read on »

Strict, Lax, or Flexible Parenting Styles? by Dr. Kalea Chapman Doctor of Psychology

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health Popular, popular, popular. For some reason, this is consistently the most popular post on this blog. I guess there are a lot of parents out there with questions. Perhaps it&r ... Read on »

Making the Making of DSM-V Transparent by Dr. Kalea Chapman Doctor of Psychology

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health Passing on some information on efforts to make transparent the production of the next Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (or DSM). As you may know, the last two editions were r ... Read on »

Recession and Sense of Self by Dr. Kalea Chapman Doctor of Psychology

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health Self doubt. Diminished sense of self. Fear and diminished expectations. Depression. Anxiety. Lack of sleep. These are some of the symptoms being predicted as a result of the u ... Read on »

DSM-V and Some New Diagnoses by Dr. Kalea Chapman Doctor of Psychology

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health Just a little piece on the DSM-V update at the Los Angeles Times. Written by Christopher Lane, author of the fascinating Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness. Lane ... Read on »

Prescription Privileges and Standard of Care by Dr. Kalea Chapman Doctor of Psychology

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health It sometimes appears that there’s nothing left to say on this topic — yet there’s occasionally a new wrinkle.One issue that comes up is whether having a clie ... Read on »

Changing Landscape of Infidelity by Dr. Kalea Chapman Doctor of Psychology

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health The New York Times ran an interesting article on marital infidelity recently. One of the openers is that of women polled face-to-face one percent admitted to infidelity. On a ... Read on »

Two Suicide Prevention Methods by Dr. Kalea Chapman Doctor of Psychology

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health By Net. No, that’s not internet. Psych Central has an interesting article about the San Francisco suicide prevention net to be placed under the Golden Gate Bridge. There ... Read on »

Perils of a Colorblind Psychotherapeutic Approach by Dr. Kalea Chapman Doctor of Psychology

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health In my training one thing that was hammered into us again and again is the importance of addressing diversity immediately and directly. This idea was challenged by an psychoana ... Read on »

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