Despite the credit crunch, the nation’s High Streets are still seeing Christmas shoppers laden with bags.
In this week’s Scrubbing Up, Dr Tom Fawcett from the University of Salford warns people can’t resist the desire to be seen as generous – but may be storing up psychological as well as financial trouble for the New Year.
Link to read Dr. Tom Fawcett’s viewpoint
Source: BBC
First month of pregnancy forms the basis for disrupted development
Schizophrenia and autism probably share a common origin, hypothesises Dutch researcher Annemie Ploeger following an extensive literature study. The developmental psychologist demonstrated that both mental diseases have similar physical abnormalities which are formed during the first month of pregnancy.
Image: Schizophrenia PET scan, Wikemedia Commons
takes viewers inside one of life’s most devastating transitions as three Canadian couples, determined to keep the needs of their children first, work through their separations on camera.
The “divorce from hell” stories grab headlines: couples who spend hundreds of thousands of dollars destroying each other and, incidentally, their children. But in this country, there is another reality. Grassroots Canadians are at the heart of a quiet revolution – couples working on “good” divorces, which acknowledge that the end of a marriage isn’t the end of a family.
Source: Bountiful Films, How to Divorce & Not Wreck the Kids is produced by Bountiful Films Inc. in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Hat Tip to the BCPA
SANE, the leading mental health charity, today publishes the findings of its study of almost a thousand people with direct experience of self harm, and the results challenge many common misunderstandings about who does it and why.
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