Some ‘thinks’ only a psychologist can believe!

Not an entertaining podcast this time, but edifying!

A very narrow discussion of diagnosis and classification in mental health disorder...

Albert Bandura (Dec. 4, 1925-July 26, 2021)

A quick remembrance of this great Alberta native son

Psychotropics as back to the future, and beyond

The potential for neuro growth through the use of psychotropics, ASMR (appeared in The White Lotus as popular culture) and now even 'laughing gas' is on the scene!  

Good enough parenting

It is not what you do as much as the things you ought not do that make you a good enough parent

Predisposition: issues in several areas which serve healing

How moral foundations may predispose to PTSD, how ACEs predispose individuals to later life pathology, what predisposes adults to getting past divorce, and biological treatment for predisposed memory loss.

Time moves quick or slow depending on age and Kahneman and co-authors concept of ’noise’ in our lives

There appears to be a fast vs. slow experience of time based upon age and our nervous systems capacity to process events around us and the impact of “noise" upon our choices-a book review, sort of.

Success and privilege-the ‘choice mindset'

How the degrees of freedom in our lives, reflected in power and privilege, bestow a belief in individual responsibility for one’s fate...

Social justice

Review of current perspective on social justice and how it can be positioned within the work we do 

Teen theme-current thought on adolescent developement

Summary of a summary article on adolescent development: how Erickson, neuroscience and  current social psychological perspective might inform practice 

A little this and a little that...

Intolerance for uncertainty potentiates political polarization, KS Pope website as a place to know/go and visit and the limits to benefits of exercise , giving psychology away(again), oops alcohol as friend of COVID, dogs are watching us and CO-2 therapy(!?!)