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Norristown event promotes action plan for recovery from mental illness
Mental health professionals and advocates are increasingly pursuing the idea of “recovery,” which means helping people to liv ...
10 years ago
Everyone has experienced yawning when someone else yawn or else has walked into a room full of people where the mood was light and cheerf ...
Air Date: September 1, 2014
ListenShortage of psychiatric beds creates bottleneck at N.J. screening centers
New Jersey mental health advocates say a shortage of beds in psychiatric hospitals is causing long wait times and chaotic conditions in t ...
10 years ago
Peace psychology: Conversations
The journal American Psychologist has published a special issue on peace ...
Air Date: August 25, 2014
ListenMindfulness at work: How do you come across?
Dr. Daniel Ames from Columbia Business School did a ...
Air Date: August 18, 2014
ListenWhen we hear the word wisdom, most of of think of the qualities of reflection, compassion, and cognition. We think of a type of knowledge ...
Air Date: August 11, 2014
ListenFeedback for how we and what we are doing is everywhere. It can be direct, or indirect. It can be verbal, or non-verbal. It can come from ...
Air Date: August 4, 2014
ListenEach of us knows that negative inner voice – the one that tells us we can’t do something new, we can’t get that promoti ...
Air Date: July 28, 2014
ListenTeaching children empathy through the arts
Empathy is an essential skill to connect with the people and world around you. It is also so much more than even compassion- to be truly ...
Air Date: July 18, 2014
ListenNew suicide prevention guidelines include survivors’ voices
The National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention has just published a ...
10 years ago
Mindfulness at work: How do you come across?
Dr. Daniel Ames from Columbia Business School did a ...
Air Date: July 14, 2014
ListenDivorce is not just between two parents, but the family’s children as well. On this show, we’ll speak with ...
Air Date: July 7, 2014
ListenN.J. boarding home housing people with mental illness comes under scrutiny
A New Jersey boarding home that mostly houses people with mental illnesses is coming under renewed scrutiny. Police report an increase in ...
10 years ago
Thousands walk in Philly to raise funds for suicide prevention
Close to 2,000 people participated in an 18-mile overnight walk through Philadelphia this weekend to help prevent suicide. The event, org ...
10 years ago
We tend to to think that grief after the death of a loved on means stage after stage of misery, that we slowly, if ever, climb out of. Co ...
Air Date: June 30, 2014
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