Winter, 2013; Instructor: Veronica Tonay, PhD; site last updated:3/20/13
Wow! Off-Label Prescribing: Best Practice or Malpractice?, CNS Spectrums journal
Biggest predictor of college GPA? #1 = time spent studying (positive correlation); #2 = alcohol consumption (negative correlation). This is an interesting study, which surveyed almost 14,000 students at over 150 schools. It makes the observation that college students spent, on average, 24 hours per week studying in the 60s and now, students average only 7.25 hours per week. (UCSC expects students will spend about 3 hours per week studying for each unit being attempted = 15 hours per week, per class–i.e., with that amount of studying, one could reasonably expect to pass the class, but not necessarily to earn an A.)
GPs [physicians] to prescribe self-help books for mental health problems in England
More on DSM-V: Manual turns binge drinkers into 'mild' alcoholics
There's More to Life Than Being Happy, from The Atlantic
One in five adults in US mentally ill in 2010, according to this article
Suicides down amongst returning vets; domestic violence and child abuse up
Tips for applying for grad school and psychotherapy licensure: please scroll down for links.
Tips for Preparing for and Applying to Graduate School
A Comprehensive Page on Careers, from Dr. Suler at Rider University in NJ
Article from the perspective of a medicating psychiatrist
Timely article: "Empathy: College Students Don't Have as Much as They Used To, Study Finds" Includes the test used and suggestions for improving empathy (I'm sure psych majors score higher on empathy!)
American Psychological Association
Home Page
Association for Humanistic Psychology
www.drtonay.com: info on psychotherapy topics
Concerned about what you don't know? Read this (the comments are particularly funny). ~:)
Blog: Creative Dreamers, an educative blog about dreams.
