Embracing intellectual messiness goes against our instincts and training as educated people, but writers and artists should accept and understand it as crucial to the creative process.
Source: Big Think
January 2011
For those of you reading this post who are saying well yes duh, up until now very few studies have focused on the sociodemographic or indeed the clinial patient characteristics with regard to the therapeutic alliance.
Now a group of researchers of the University of Ghent present new findings published in the Journal of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics on the role of the relationship between patient and therapist (therapeutic alliance).
This study suggests that therapist and patient ratings of therapeutic alliance predict therapeutic progress. This relation may be moderated by client characteristics, including personality pathology comorbidity, marital status, occupational status, and the atypical character of the major depressive episode. ( Maybe I should be uttering those words again… “well no, really? Do you not think that would be obvious”. [continue reading…]
Research is stimulated that by previous studies . So then what explains the finding of 2 John Hopkins researchers, Karen A. Robinson and Dr. Steven N. Goodman, how looked at how often clinical research studies cite previous findings.
They report in the Jan. 4 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine what Dr. Goodman describes as “a rather shocking result.” He summarizes: “No matter how many randomized clinical trials have been done on a particular topic, about half the clinical trials cite none or only one of them.“As cynical as I am about such things, I didn’t realize the situation was this bad,” Dr. Goodman said. It seems, Dr. Goodman said in an e-mail, that “either everyone thinks their study is really unique (when others thought it wasn’t), or they want to unjustifiably claim originality, or they just don’t know how or want to look.
Curious? Continue reading
Source: New York Times
Canadians of all ages are flocking to social media giant Facebook, according to a new study by Ottawa-based market research firm, Abacus Data. Figures collected during December 2010 suggest that nearly three-quarters of Canadians maintain accounts with Facebook. While that figure on its own may not be surprising, the breakdown of users may be unexpected for some.
“It’s very common to hear of a generational gap in social media use, but these results show that that gap is more of a gradient – the real gap is in how the different generations use social media” said Alex Monk, a strategist at Abacus Data and author of the report. Curious? Continue reading
Source: Abacus Data
