Posted in education, information landscape, open access, psychology, scholarly communication on October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Open access journal publishing is one way that scholarship and research can be made available to the worldwide community, and a good place to find OA journals is the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Here are some examples from browsing the DOAJ subject lists:
Under psychology in social sciences: Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy, Annual [...]
Posted in enviro advocacy, psychology, sustainability on October 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I think many folks at ANE would agree with the premise of the video below–especially our solid waste coordinator and vermicomposter extraordinaire, Jess Skinner.
Posted in alumni, psychology, technology on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Kudos to Dr. Christine Frick, 2007 Clinical Psychology alumna, who is featured in this Veterans Administration video on the benefits of telehealth:
Posted in psychology on April 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Don’t miss Marti Straus’s presentation tonight in the ANE Community Room:
All the Rage: Helping Adolescent Girls in Crisis
Martha Straus, PhD, professor, Clinical Psychology, Antioch New England
Monday, April 14, 7 pm
Dr. Martha Straus will address many of the issues covered in her recent book, Adolescent Girls in Crisis: Intervention and Hope. Many adolescent girls today are [...]
Posted in psychology on August 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In 2006, researchers at University of California-Davis launched a research program, MARBLES, examining the link between autism and the environment. According to a Psychology in the News article,
Researchers have long suspected that autism’s causes are rooted in one’s genes, combined with some kind of a hit from the environment. But pinpointing the interplay of [...]
Posted in anything 2.0, psychology on July 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
In the June APS Observer, Jillian Sherwin writes about research in the 3-D virtual world Second Life:
Peter Yellowlees, professor of psychiatry and director of academic information systems at the University of California, Davis, uses Second Life to simulate schizophrenic hallucinations. . . . Yellowlees interviewed three schizophrenic patients and recorded information about their specific hallucinations. [...]
Posted in psychology, sustainability on June 16, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Steve Chase, an ANE faculty member who can be found over at The Well-Trained Activist, recently attended the Psychology – Ecology – Sustainability Conference and brought back some great resources which we’ll be highlighting over the next few weeks.
The first is Teaching Psychology for Sustainability: A Manual of Resources.
One way that psychologists can contribute to [...]
Posted in psychology on June 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Christopher Munsey, in APA’s Monitor on Psychology, reports that:
With so many service members affected by traumatic brain injuries, neuropsychologists are ramping up diagnosis and treatment.
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been called the “signature injury” of the Iraq war.
Most commonly, the injuries are caused by improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, the makeshift bombs insurgents frequently use [...]
Posted in psychology on May 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
According to a May 14, 2007 Associated Press news report, there is an increasing effort to diagnose autism, ADD, and other disorders in babies, as part of the growing infant mental health field.
Within days of their birth, healthy babies will look you in the eye. By 4 months, they will delight in others. And by [...]
