Some Facts about Autism

Autism is one of the mental and behavioral disorders classified under the Pervasive Developmental Disorders or PDD. This is a group of disorders characterized by severe and pervasive abnormalities in social-interaction skills, presence of stereotyped behavior, interest, activities or lack of imaginative play.

Psychology And Biological Experiments

Psychology as the science which studies thoughts, behavior, soul and emotions is closely connected with other sciences.

Tips and Strategies to Build Rapport with Clients

In previous we’ve discussed the 'business-side' of counselling: marketing tips and business guidelines which can help counsellors build a successful practice. Most therapists possess an innate desire to help others, and because of this emotional involvement, sometimes it can be challenging to convert the potential into practical results. Whilst we’ve tackled the basic premises which can help counsellors enter the market and attract clients, there is still one aspect of the counselling relationship which is indispensable for a counsellor’s success: client satisfaction. But isn’t that a matter of competence and an intrinsic part of being a counsellor? Yes, it is. Being able to progress...

Adolescents Suffering Victimization

Adolescents suffering from victimization may encounter a significant level of psychological defoliation.

The Problem with Cognitive Therapy

How can you know for sure that therapists and their curriculum will actually change faulty thinking errors and self-defeating behaviors? Almost any counseling program can claim it is cognitive therapy, but can they prove it actually works?

Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem

From the very childhood most parents teach their children to be obedient and stress that obedience is a virtue, and disobedience is a flaw. That is the opinion accepted in the society. There exist a lot of religions that teach us to be obedient.

Dream Groups by Telephone May Be Better Than Meeting In Person

We human beings are visually dominant creatures. We draw many conclusions based on visual cues alone. Our eyes tell a very different story about the world around us than the story that is told by our ears. A telephone group tends to be more focused on the specific content of the dreams and on the emotional tone of the members, and seems to be less biased and more growth-focused than when people are in the same room.

What is Asperger's and Where Does It Come From?

Are there alternatives to medically diagnosing people with Asperger's? Personality theorist, Steven Paglierani, thinks so. In this article, he explores how more spiritually minded diagnoses could improve how we offer help to people with Asperger's.

When The Words You Use Hurt Someone Else-Part 3-Critical Humor

Critical humor is a form of verbal abuse. It hurts.

Knowledge Of Behavior

Interpersonal expectancy effects research focuses on how one individual's expectations influence another individual's behavior.

IQ Measures Only Three Out Of Seven Types Of Intelligence

When we talk about intelligence, we tend to think about what system we can use to measure it. When we talk about how intelligent a person is, we may think about how high his/her IQ level is. IQ is the Intelligence Quotient of a person derived from the equation of mental age over chronological age. It is said that the higher a person's cognitive capability is, in relation to his number of years lived, the more intelligent he is.

Humanistic Psychology

Humanistic psychology is a school of psychology that came to be established somewhere in the 1950s. This was found in reaction to both behaviorism and psychoanalysis. Humanistic psychology is concerned with the human dimension of psychology and the human context for the growth of psychological theory.

Female Violence: Speak Softly but Carry a Big Stick

Is female violence is on the rise or are we just more ready to admit that it exists? The answer is yes to both. Female violence is on the rise and we are more willing to face it.

President Abraham Lincoln's Prophetic Dream That Foretold His Own Death In The White House

President Abraham Lincoln dreamed of his own death not long before he was going to be assassinated. He reported to a friend that the dream had troubled him for days and he could not shake the melancholy it induced. It is as if he were allowed to grieve his own tragic demise in advance.

The Whole is the Illusion

What you see about you is not real. You are an illusion, imagined by all those who are creating you in their experience. Nothing is the only things that really exists.