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http://psychcentral.com/news/2015/10/24/the-effectiveness-of-talk-therapies-for-bipolar-disorder/93903.html Lithium, the first drug treatment used for bipolar disorder, was considered so effective when it was introduced that medication has been the primary focus of bipolar treatment ever since. Relatively little attention has been paid to psychosocial treatments for bipolar disorder, a condition characterized by alternating depression and mania.Continue Reading

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http://www.futurity.org/scientific-literature-psychotherapy-1034072/ “This doesn’t mean that psychotherapy doesn’t work. Psychotherapy does work. It just doesn’t work as well as you would think from reading the scientific literature,” says Steven Hollon, a psychology professor at Vanderbilt University who co-authored the study with colleagues from Oregon Health and Science University, VU University Amsterdam,Continue Reading

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http://i.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/66189867/warning-over-facebook-page-listing-sex-offenders Sexual Abuse Support and Healing Nelson service co-ordinator Sarah-Jane Macmillan said a “cautious approach” should be taken when revealing sensitive information on social media. She said, in her experience as a sexual abuse counsellor, the information could be “damaging” to victims who see it online. “We need to findContinue Reading

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http://i.stuff.co.nz/national/72778250/landslides-in-deep-canyons-in-cook-strait-can-set-off-10metre-high-tsunamis Landslides in offshore canyons could cause tsunamis more than 10 metres high along parts of the Cook Strait coastline, scientists have calculated. Niwa and GNS Science researchers spent four years assessing the risk of tsunamis generated by landslides in the Cook Strait Canyon. It was estimated a 1m landslide-generatedContinue Reading

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http://www.psypost.org/2015/11/we-use-our-smartphones-twice-as-much-as-we-think-38923 People use their smartphones for an average of five hours a day – about a third of the time they are awake – and check the about 85 times a day, it is also noted that 1.5 billion smartphones are sold each year as well, with research suggesting theseContinue Reading