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Employee Assistance Professionals Association
The Call for Proposals for EAPA's 2016 World EAP Conference is now open. The conference will be held Oct. 31-Nov. 3 at the sleek, river front situated Sheraton Grand Chicago, within walking distance of Navy Pier, Magnificent Mile shopping, Millennium Park, the Loop District and all the local favorites that make the Windy City a one of a kind destination. Attendees from more than 40 countries are expected to participate. The conference theme is "EAP Innovation: Soaring on the Winds of Change." Focus areas for the conference are: Adapting services to the changing needs of the work environment, Innovations in EAP services to individuals, Harnessing technology to address the needs of the remote and mobile workforce, and Evidence-based practice and demonstrating value on investment. Deadline for all proposals is Feb. 19.
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The Huffington Post
As more women remain in the workforce through their menopausal years, many employers may need to do a better job of adopting policies that help ensure working conditions don't make women's symptoms worse, recent European guidelines urge.
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Yale News
Some commercially available e-cigarettes contain enough alcohol to impact motor skills, a new Yale University School of Medicine study shows.
E-cigarettes deliver nicotine by vaporizing liquids, which often contain alcohol and other chemicals in addition to nicotine. In the new study, published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence, researchers tested subjects who used two commercially available e-cigarettes with liquids containing either high (23.5 percent) or low (0.4 percent) amounts of alcohol.
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Psychotherapy Networker
Susan Clancy writes: "As a graduate student at Harvard in the mid-1990s, I participated in research studies carried out by the psychology department that began in October 1996 and continued until August 2005 to interview adults who had experience sexual abuse as children and learn what effects the abuse had had on their lives. Although I was sure I knew what I would discover — that the abuse would be remembered as a horrible experience that overwhelmed the people I interviewed with fear when it happened and had always been viewed as a traumatizing occurrence — what I heard in the hundreds of interviews I conducted was quite different."
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American Psychological Association
You are leading a therapy session when your patient reveals she was horribly abused as a child. Your patient starts to sob — and tears fill your eyes as well.
Is this an appropriate response? Should you fight your tears, hide them or let them fall? And if you do cry, how will this affect your patient?
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Psych Central
Bipolar disorder is a serious, debilitating illness. The mood swings alone can be devastating, but we also suffer between episodes. This is why equally serious medications have been developed to treat bipolar disorder. They're not perfect by any means. There are plenty of side effects including weight gain, loss of sex drive, drowsiness, nausea and tremors. That's the short list. Some can also make you feel like you’re in a fog or feel like a zombie. It's really easy to use these as an excuse to stop taking your medications, especially during a manic state. However, there are other reasons researchers have found as to why bipolar disorder patients are so bad at staying on a medication regimen.
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Medical News Today
Past research has demonstrated that individuals who lose their jobs during periods of economic uncertainty are more likely to turn to alcohol in an attempt to ease their stress, or even just fill their time. But a new study finds that even those who keep their jobs through such periods may be more likely to hit the bottle.
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Psych Central
A new study finds that combining the drug topiramate with psychological counseling curbed marijuana addiction among young smokers significantly more than did counseling alone.
In the small randomized control trial Brown University researchers, however, found that many study volunteers were unable to tolerate the medicine's side effects.
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Business.com
Stress. It is an often-overused word that can incite a physical reaction simply by mentioning it.
The American Psychological Association says that routine stress from work — things like long hours, manual labor, low-reward positions and projects — can contribute to mental health issues and even have physical impacts such as an increase in heart attacks.
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The Wall Street Journal
A new treatment for psychiatric disorders like depression and anxiety uses real-time scans to show patients how their brains go awry — and how to fix the dysfunction.
The treatment is called neurofeedback.
There is an urgent need for new approaches for psychiatric disorders, particularly depression. Almost 17 percent of Americans will suffer from major depression during their lifetime, according to a 2012 study published in the International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research.
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