Clinical Psychology & Mental Health

What Makes a "Healthy" Personality?

What Makes a “Healthy” Personality?

Do you ever meet someone who just seems remarkably free of stress and comfortable with themselves? You might come away wondering whether there’s a certain set of personality traits that predisposes some ...
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/ / Clinical Psychology, Mental Health, Personality
Should Therapists Disclose Their Own Mental Health Struggles?

Should Therapists Disclose Their Own Mental Health Struggles?

As a mental health blogger, I don’t have to think twice over pouring my heart out about my own mental health challenges. But therapists are in a more delicate position. On one ...
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/ / Clinical Psychology, Mental Health, Therapists, Treatment
"Popular" Teens May Be Lonelier

“Popular” Teens May Be Lonelier

Along with the changes of adolescence comes an increased desire to be "popular." But teenagers who aspire to high levels of social prestige might want to be careful what they wish for ...
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/ / Clinical Psychology, Depression, Loneliness, Popularity, Teens
Social Ostracism Linked to Internet Addiction

Social Ostracism Linked to Internet Addiction

To understand people’s online behavior, it’s worth looking at what’s happening in their offline lives. That’s one takeaway from a new study published in the journal Psychiatry Research showing a relationship between ...
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/ / Addiction, Behavioral Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Internet, Media Psychology & Technology, Relationships, Social Psychology
Online Interventions Can Lower Stress Response

Online Interventions Can Lower Stress Response

As far as practical steps you can to take to improve your mental health, you could do worse than learning some new techniques for coping with stress. Stress is something we deal ...
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/ / Clinical Psychology, Media Psychology & Technology, Stress & Anxiety, Treatment
Writing Part of Your Life Story Can Boost Self-Esteem

Writing Part of Your Life Story Can Boost Self-Esteem

How we make sense of events that have happened to us affects how we see our place in the world around us. As I wrote about last year, for example, studies suggest ...
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/ / Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Language, Narrative, Positive Psychology, Self-Esteem
Insomnia Can Be a Harbinger of Other Mental Health Conditions

Insomnia Can Be a Harbinger of Other Mental Health Conditions

Just in case you needed anything else to worry about in the wee hours, here’s a scientific finding that might keep you up at night: insomnia appears to be associated with the ...
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/ / Clinical Psychology, Insomnia, Sleep
3 Factors That Predict Depression Onset in College

3 Factors That Predict Depression Onset in College

College presents all sorts of new challenges for young adults, and those are compounded when mental health conditions like depression enter the picture. Providing resources early on for college students at risk ...
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/ / Clinical Psychology, College, Depression, Young Adults
When Therapists Misjudge Their Clients' Emotions

When Therapists Misjudge Their Clients’ Emotions

Therapists are, of course, human, and one of the things about being human is that we sometimes misread other people’s emotions. Psychologists refer to the ability to know what other people are ...
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/ / Clinical Psychology, Emotion-Affective Psychology, Treatment
What Does Aging Mean for Mental Health? It Depends Where You Live

What Does Aging Mean for Mental Health? It Depends Where You Live

Mental health isn’t something that stays fixed across the lifespan. Everyone goes through periods of better and worse mental health. But as people get older, is there a general tendency for their ...
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/ / Clinical Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Mental Health, Older Adults