With the increased use of online therapy and wellness-based mobile applications, the field of mental health is following in the path of physical health initiatives in the design of more accessible and convenient platforms. Online programs, such as MassMen.org, allow users to remain anonymous — a feature that has never before been possible. This may encourage those less likely to seek help to address their mental health concerns. While these programs provide services through different platforms, to a different audience and from a greater distance than ever before, it remains to be seen how >>>

Posted Dec. 26, 2015 at 12:01 AM
Updated Dec 28, 2015 at 9:44 AM

After an ugly start the indices slowly recovered, but breadth was still solidly negative. The FATMAN group and Google (GOOGL), Amazon (AMZN) and Facebook (FB) in particular exhibited relative strength. Traders really had no choice but to take refuge in the bigger-caps. (Google and Facebook are part of TheStreet's Action Alerts PLUS portfolio. Amazon is part of the Growth Seeker portfolio.) Usually during the holidays we will have some action in speculative "junk." Traders will create some movement as they try to find some fast-moving small-cap. It can create a festive environment if >>>

Phillip Pullman, notable for His Dark Materials trilogy is not alone in believing that fairy tales bear no psychological heft and therefore call for no psychological discussion. “There is no psychology in a fairy tale,” he avers: “The characters have little inner life; their motives are clear and obvious.” And he goes on: “One might almost say that the characters in a fairy tale are not actually conscious.” Novelist A. S. Byatt apparently agrees, for she states that fairy tales “don’t analyse feelings.” Of course, this is superficially right. We are not privy to the inner worlds >>>

Asking for favours actually makes you more popular as people like the feeling they get from helping others, research finds  Forget bending over backwards to please people – the best way to make friends is to ask others to do things for you. Japanese scientists have found that instead of being regarded as a nuisance, those who ask for favours are actually seen as more likeable. Psychologists at Hosei University in Tokyo sat 80 students in pairs with screens dividing them and gave them puzzles to complete. Some had secretly been told to seek help from their neighbour with one of the >>>

Researchers say that asking for favours actually makes you more popularJapanese study found that people seen as likeable rather than a nuisanceScientists suggest openly seeking favours can help galvanise friendshipsBut this is as long as the requests are in moderation, the study concluded By Pat Hagan for the Daily Mail Published: 03:29 GMT, 28 December 2015 | Updated: 04:04 GMT, 28 December 2015 14 View comments Forget bending over backwards to please >>>

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By Greta Kaul, Staff Writer

December 27, 2015

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I love to read, so when someone suggests a book that interests me or will enrich my understanding of a subject I am interested in, chances are I will buy the book. The other day a friend recommended a book to me by Carol Dweck, professor of psychology at Stanford University, titled “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success.” I found it to be very intriguing. My friend talked briefly about the theory behind Dweck’s work: A mindset is the self-perception that people hold about themselves. People either hold a fixed mindset or a growth mindset. She explained that the people who embrace the >>>

This guest article was written by William Laraque who is the Managing Director of the US-International Trade Services.  “The rules of strategy are few and simple. They may be learned in a week. They may be taught by familiar illustrations or a dozen diagrams. But such knowledge will no more teach a man to lead an army like Napoleon than a knowledge of grammar will teach him to write like Gibbon.” ~ Stonewall Jackson Psychology in a battle One of the fascinating aspects of military strategy is human psychology and the vulnerability of the human ego. The psychological >>>