To prepare youth for success, we must first know what success is. Success has two loci, the mind and the body. Mentally speaking, success is preparation to adapt cognitively to...
My time has been so limited lately because I've been occupied preparing an R01 grant for resubmission. R01 grants are National Institutes of Health multi-year grants (5 years)...
I haven't posted anything in a while because I've never been so busy. We research faculty are always in need of funding to keep our salaries. So, when grants get tougher to get,...
Sorry for the lack of postings lately, but we've been so very busy working on grants and related analysis. At any rate, there are two new notable student papers on my website...
I love doing research but in today's world research is all about following up on the findings of prior research. Creativity is eschewed as if it were false science. Sure, one...
Addiction is a process that has its origins in childhood. Actually, I go further to the pre-postnatal period, from when the mother and father first notice the woman is pregnant...
I am sorry that I haven't been able to post entries lately, but I've been busier than ever before. Research is far more complicated that undergraduate and even graduate students...
What a mess we are in! Whose fault is it anyway? It's hard to say. I've heard many possible causes and of course there are those with agendas. One conservative man I spoke to...
Throughout the history of psychology, formal and informal, mental health has been characterized in part by self-awareness. Whether it came from the oracle in Delphi,...
I love Christmas, but this year I've been so busy it's been hard to enjoy the holiday. Besides of course buying presents, I've been working on an R01 grant. That's taken a great...
Everyone should make it a point to learn something new. Learning is beneficial for many reasons, among which are keeping the mind occupied with the task at hand (problem...
Why is Napoleon Dynamite so angry at Tina? And why would he want to feed her ham, isn't she an herbivore? Why does Charlie Brown always get rocks when he goes trick or...
According to sociologist George Herber Meade, the self is a generalized other, a collection of others' perspectives; it is impossible to see one's self without taking on the...
I have never been prouder to be an American than now. The election of Barack Obama to President shows that for the majority of Americans, race is less important than policy....
Good job guys! Hammels, Lidge, and the rest came through in the clutch. The Phillies willed their way to the championship. It seems that they wouldn't take no and said to...
For the sake of this city, Phillies, please win. That's right, I am appealing to the Philadelphia Phillies to win the world series. The fans here depend so much on their sport...
The current financial crisis is devastating to many. I do not feel sorry for indviduals losing money if the money they earned was at the expense of the less fortunate. This...
Research isn't always easy. I've been very busy lately but it never stops being fun! Today, though, I went shopping with my son for school supplies. This is a big year as it's...
Yes, it's true I'm finally talking about therapy. Psychoadaptation psychotherapy is simple. The aim is to help the individual fit the self's conceptions to the constraints of...
“…spontaneous in his expression of feelings, able to experience affect deeply and with aliveness.” This is an interesting characteristic that probably could have been...
As I prepare for my normal Sunday business, I remember my cousin Jelena who died this week. What a tragedy, she was only 43 years old. She leaves behind her a 6 year old childe...
Here the latest list of store closings from the Starbucks website. It's interesting how predictable are some of the stores closing. Those closing are stores that should...
The most fundamental postulate of Psychoadaptation is that individual have an innate propensity to adapt to the constraints of the prevailing environment. Environment’s are a...
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