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A 3-Day CBT Workshop on Depression and Anxiety for students and post-doctoral fellows was held on August 15 – 17, 2011 at Beck's Institute.In this video Dr. Aaron Beck answers a participant’s question on how he developed Cognitive Therapy. Please enjoy the first video of this unique series:

baby girl photography | michigan baby photographer , a photo by paulretherford on Flickr. Poorer movement skills detected as early as 7 months old are observed in children at a higher risk of developing Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) than children in the general population. These findings are being presented today at the British Psychological Society Developmental Section annual conference in Newcastle upon Tyne. The study was carried out by a team led by Dr. Elisabeth Hill at Goldsmiths (University of London), Dr. Hayley Leonard (Goldsmiths) and the British Autism Study of Infant Siblings (BASIS) based at Birkbeck University of London. The researchers examined infants with a diagnosed older sibling with ASD. Siblings are known to share a higher risk of developing the disorder. The researchers assessed the infants using a longitudinal follow-up design at 7, 14, and 24 months. Two groups of infants participated in the study: 54 infants at-risk of a diagnosis of ASD based o...

Gladding to discuss creativity in counseling at ACA’s first webinar - Counseling Today : 'via Blog this'

Suicide Prevention Artwork. , a photo by campbelm on Flickr. A suicide prevention program developed at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center has significantly helped teens and young adults overcome depression and thoughts of suicide. Cathy Strunk, RN, suicide prevention expert in the division of Psychiatry, who developed Surviving the Teens, says that the program focuses on helping high school students to learn suicide warning signs, suicide and depression risk factors, how to effectively cope with stress, steps to take if they or a friend felt suicidal, and how to talk to their parents and friends about their problems Strunk taught the Surviving the Teens curriculum to more than 6,000 high school students in Warren, Butler and Hamilton counties during the 2008-2009 school year. For the study, more than 900 were surveyed before going through the program and after completing the program. More than 400 were surveyed three months later. She found that: Students who ...

 Many wonder why bullies bully, but a new study looks at the other side of the equation: How do children respond to bullying and why? The answer, researchers say, may lead to more effective interventions to reduce the negative consequences – and perhaps even the frequency – of bullying. The study appears in the journal  Child Development . "The main question we were interested in is how do children go about selecting strategies for dealing with harassment from their peers?" said University of Illinois  psychology  professor  Karen Rudolph , who led the study. "And what we focused on was an understanding of the goals that kids develop in their social relationships." Consciously or not, children tend to adopt one of three approaches, she said. "Some are focused on developing their relationships. They want to improve their social skills. They want to learn how to make friends," she said. Others are most interested in "demonstrating their competence,...

Researchers say tuition and pressure to achieve top grades are just a few of the reasons that today’s young people suffer from increased anxiety and seek therapy. In order to enhance the experience of therapy, a team of students and faculty from Rochester Institute of Technology and St. John Fisher College is designing and building a groundbreaking computer game to help young people improve their everyday skills in self-control. “The use of physiological controllers in a personalized game platform allows us to help our patients help themselves in a new way,” says Dr. Laurence Sugarman, director of the Center for Applied Psychophysiology and Self-Regulation in RIT’s College of Health Sciences and Technology. RIT game design and development students Ivy Ngo, Kenneth Stewart and John McDonald will work under the supervision of Sugarman; Stephen Jacobs, associate professor of RIT’s School of Interactive Games and Media; and Robert Rice, assistant professor at St. John Fisher College’s Me...