Sentences with phrase «which lead a psychologist»

But typically laughter serves as an emotionally laden social signal and occurs in the presence of others, which led psychologist Diana Szameitat and her team to explore the possible adaptive function of human laughter.

Instead its intention is to describe a specific set of symptoms in a child which lead a psychologist to a clinical diagnosis of Child Psychological Abuse.

Not exact matches

Psychologist Susan David says the way in which we deal with our emotions drives «every aspect of how we love, how we live, how we parent and how we lead.»

The research (which thrills me personally) was led by Larry Stevens, a Northern Arizona University psychologist, and involved looking at the effects of eating dark chocolate on the brain, using an EEG machine to measure brain activity.

Another important finding from the study was that patients reported that they wanted their talking therapy to be on a one - to - one basis with a psychologist, which contrasts with current trends of introducing psychology group as a group activity led by physiotherapists.

In a followup study (led by University of Arizona psychologists Jay Sanguinetti and John JB Allen) preliminary results suggest 2 megahertz TUS (which traverses skull more readily) may be more effective in mood enhancement than 8 megahertz TUS.

«In our study, transgender youth decided to pursue fertility preservation at much lower rates than we would have expected from research on reproductive desires of transgender adults, which suggests that about half want biological children and over a third would have considered preserving their fertility if techniques had been available and offered to them,» said lead author Diane Chen, PhD, a pediatric psychologist with the Gender & Sex Development Program at Lurie Children's and in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Dr Neesha Patel, the health psychologist who led the study, said: «Many of the people we interviewed have conflicting views about the causes of their diabetes which seems to have an impact on how they manage it.

«Our findings showed that an in increase in methylation of the SKA2 gene is associated with decreased cortical thickness in the prefrontal cortex, which may play a role in the development of PTSD and may explain why this gene predicts risk for mental health problems, like PTSD and suicide,» explained lead and corresponding author Naomi Samimi Sadeh, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at BUSM and a psychologist in the National Center for PTSD at VA Boston.

Psychologist Ullrich Ecker of the University of Western Australia and his colleagues collected data last year showing that deceptive headlines, such as «Fears of Fluoride in Drinking Water» (which topped an article emphasizing the safety of fluoride in water), can provoke biased inferences about the story, leading to misconceptions.

«Healthy people take having this coherent «self» experience for granted,» psychologist Katrin Preller, one of the lead authors of the study, told Live Science, «which makes it difficult to explain why it's so important.»

Founded by a psychologist, eHarmony matches people based on personality and compatibility, which they say leads ultimately to happier and more satisfying romantic partnerships.

Suicide prevention advocates, school psychologists and educators have expressed concern that the show — which features graphic depictions of sexual assault and Hannah's suicide — may lead vulnerable young viewers to harm themselves.

In Why Gender Matters, psychologist and family physician Dr. Leonard Sax leads parents through the mystifying world of gender differences by explaining the biologically different ways in which children think, feel, and act.

Plaintiff alleged in the civil suit that the child sustained massive head injuries and died as a result of alleged abuse by the parents, codefendants in the civil case, and that the psychologists were negligent in failing to suspect the abuse and neglect which ultimately led to his death.

The model also suggests a hybrid process in which the steps leading to resolution rely on computer - based determinations of support and asset division and the recommendations of a neutral counsellor or psychologist for the children's parenting arrangements.

According to a note shared by the company, in 2015 Facebook found out that, despite telling its users otherwise, Cambridge professor Aleksandr Kogan passed user data collected through personality testing app «thisisyourdigitallife» (which touted itself as a personality test used by psychologists) to the political firm Cambridge Analytica — a company owned by Robert Mercer and led by Steve Bannon at the time — and to Christopher Wylie, from a digital service company called Eunoia Technologies.

KidsMatter psychologist Dr Lyn O'Grady says parents are best placed to educate their children about cyberbullying — which causes distress and can lead to loneliness, anxiety and depression — but warns that communication is just as important as setting boundaries.

While our psychologists represent a variety of theoretical approaches, all have in common respect for the individual and a belief in the ability to gain self - understanding which leads to positive change.

(California is the state that in the olden days before no - fault divorce had the psychologist - dominated reconciliation courts, the downfall of which courts led to the creation of the AFCC and «therapeutic jurisprudence» initiatives to market the same mental health services in divorce courts.)

The pattern of results for predictors and moderators needs to be examined in the context of the overall study findings, which showed no overall difference between the minimal intervention bibliotherapy group and the therapist - led treatments, no differences in outcomes overall between the two types of therapists, nurses, and psychologists, and dose effects when parents attended a sufficient number of sessions, a number that exceeds the number of sessions that families often attend in clinic settings.

Methods Twenty - four practices were randomized to conditions in which parents of 117, 3 - to 6.11 - year - olds with ODD received the 12 - session Webster - Stratton Incredible Years program led by primary care nurses or clinical psychologists, or to a minimal intervention group in which parents received only the companion book to the treatment program.

But overt social support carries a cost: Partners feel obligated, which leads to more stress, found Niall Bolger, a psychologist at Columbia University.