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Discovery Channel
When terrorists strike, as they did in Paris in a coordinated attack orchestrated by the Islamic State that left at least 128 people dead, the events are felt around the world as images and video of the aftermath pour through mass communications channels. Terrorists choose their targets not based on military or political importance, but rather emotional and visceral impact. After extremists strike, there are notable behavioral and psychological changes among both victims and observers of terrorist actions.
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Forbes
Ron Carucci writes: "On 9/11, I worked at a company in NYC that lost over 300 employees at the World Trade Center. Nothing could have prepared us for the emotional trauma that ensued for many months. One of the most important things we did was simply provide safe places to talk about our experience. Though Paris feels an ocean away, it's likely when you get to work, those you lead will be at best distracted by, and worst, deeply anxious about the wake of tragedy from the recent horrific attacks. You have an important opportunity to support colleagues with how you participate in and guide sensitive conversations likely to unfold as people try to make sense of the senseless. Here are six things to keep mind as you engage colleagues should they raise worries about what took place Friday night in Paris."
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Psychotherapy Networker
According to statistics on the Internet Filter Review site, 40 million Americans visit Internet porn sites at least once a month. One-third of all downloads each month and one-quarter of all online searches each day are for porn. And, according to a 2008 Nielsen Online survey, a record-breaking 25 percent of employees in the United States are accessing porn at work, despite the risks involved.
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Care2
The availability of online mental health therapy, and specifically computerized Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, has been hailed as a vital tool for mental health care, but new research is showing that online therapy may not be the panacea that we had hoped.
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Psych Central
A new study suggests a review of 140 social media characters can provide surprisingly accurate insights into someone's life.
The new research, published in PLOS ONE, is the first to use data from social networking sites to study real-life situations.
Researchers from Florida Atlantic University used more than 20 million Tweets to study the psychological characteristics of real-world situations that people actually experienced over the course of two weeks.
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Psych Central
New research suggests recovery from alcohol or drug addiction has at least as much to do with rewarding oneself as it does with depriving oneself.
University of California, Los Angeles's Suzette Glasner-Edwards, Ph.D., said "behavioral activation" is a cognitive-behavioral therapy approach that is effective because it combats the allure of drugs and alcohol at their source.
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SAMHSA
Findings from the National Survey on Drug Use and Mental Health show smoking, using alcohol, and taking prescription pain relievers have decreased for adolescents, but use of illicit drugs for people ages 12 and up has increased.
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Psychotherapy Networker
Psychotherapists, with their focus on shifting states of consciousness, as well as behavior and lifestyle, are ideally positioned to help address today's sleep epidemic. However, we must rethink our approach to night, sleep and dreams. Approaching sleep primarily from a waking-consciousness framework is much like trying to understand darkness by using a flashlight to illuminate it. To help our clients sleep better, we ourselves must become more "nightminded," and less "nightblinded."
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MarketWatch
Magellan Health Inc. recently said that many employee assistance programs do not address the challenges of the workplace of 2020, having been created in the 1990s when the workforce was radically different than it is today.
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The National Law Review
The quasi-judicial body overseeing enforcement actions by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has handed OSHA another challenge to the agency's nascent use of guidance documents as the basis for issuing citations, rather than relying on legally promulgated standards.
In a rare move, the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission issued a briefing notice on Sept. 18 asking interested parties to comment on OSHA's use of its general duty clause to enforce policy on prevention of workplace violence.
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