Category: Health

Exposure Therapy for Anxiety

Exposure therapy is the most effective psychological treatment for anxiety, yet many clinicians lack confidence in their ability to implement it effectively while keeping clients engaged. This indispensable book provides guidelines for conducting exposure-based interventions and overcoming common roadblocks. Drawing on cutting-edge theory and research, the authors walk clinicians through assessment and treatment planning and demonstrate a wealth of specific exposure exercises. Chapters are organized around common anxiety triggers that may cut across different diagnoses, making it easier to tailor treatment to each individual’s needs. Several reproducible handouts and forms can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2″ x 11″ size.

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Study Guide to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

The Study Guide is made up of approximately 270 questions divided into 49 individual quizzes of 5–8 questions each that correspond to chapters in the textbook. Questions are followed by an answer guide that references relevant text in the textbook to allow quick access to needed information.

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Sick: CNN concealed critical evidence in Ambassador Stevens’ murder

http://twitter.com/#!/rlbaldwinartist/status/249517910882648064

This morning CNN revealed that it scavenged Ambassador Chris Stevens’ diary from the U.S. consulate in Benghazi where he was murdered in a terrorist attack on Sept. 11.

Pretty sick RT @joshuahersh: CNN reveals they used Amb Stevens's journal before turning over to family http://t.co/Nhrh27q4

— Julia C. Hurley (@JuliaCHurley) September 22, 2012

Rather than immediately turning the journal over to authorities investigating the attack, CNN scoured it for “newsworthy tips” like TMZ breathlessly interpreting the hearts and doodles in Miley Cyrus’ diary.

Four days after he was killed, CNN found a journal belonging to late U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens. The journal was found on the floor of the largely unsecured consulate compound where he was fatally wounded.

CNN notified Stevens’ family about the journal within hours after it was discovered and at the family’s request provided it to them via a third party.

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For CNN, the ambassador’s writings served as tips about the situation in Libya, and in Benghazi in particular. CNN took the newsworthy tips and corroborated them with other sources.

Anderson Cooper also acknowledged the previously undisclosed source of CNN’s scoops on his Friday evening show.

CNN contributor David Frum continued his final descent into moral bankruptcy, calling his employer’s actions “noble” (which is likely just the response the tone-deaf news org was aiming for).

CNN finds diary of murdered ambassador Stevens and returns to family – a noble action in a prurient media culture … http://t.co/APbOUwM5

— David Frum (@davidfrum) September 22, 2012

Noble? If by “noble” you mean “an unethical obstruction of justice.” CNN withheld evidence and cited the journal in news reports as “a source familiar with Ambassador Stevens’ thinking.”

After letting it sink in, Frum amended his tweet.

Didn't appreciate when I tweeted previously: CNN * used * the diary before returning it to family. http://t.co/APbOUwM5

— David Frum (@davidfrum) September 22, 2012

But what he still doesn’t seem to appreciate is that CNN removed evidence from the scene of a terrorist attack and, according to CNN’s own account, failed to hand it over to authorities.

Umm, why didn't CNN give Amb. Stevens' journal to the CIA?

— Cuffé (@CuffyMeh) September 22, 2012

@ShannonPoe CNN gave it to the family, as if it were a little fuzzy pink diary with a latch key and not a piece of freaking evidence.

— Cuffé (@CuffyMeh) September 22, 2012

What else did CNN swipe from the scene of a terrorism investigation?

Why was cnn on scene first? What other evidence gone? RT @CuffyMeh Umm, why didn't CNN give Amb. Stevens' journal to the CIA?

— Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) September 22, 2012

If it’s true that #CNN used quotes from Ambassador Stevens' found journal in reporting then someone needs to be fired.

— sjglass (@UrquhartMP) September 22, 2012

@cnn sometimes there is a bridge too far in journalism. You crossed it, http://t.co/rjMGGQrF

— Hijo Del Lechero (@Nicosan1) September 22, 2012

Update:

The Wall Street Journal reports that CNN aired programming based on the journal against the wishes of Stevens’ family.

A State Department spokesman slammed CNN in a statement:

Given the truth of how this was handled, CNN patting themselves on the back is disgusting.

What they’re not owning up to is reading and transcribing Chris’s diary well before bothering to tell the family or anyone else that they took it from the site of the attack. Or that when they finally did tell them, they completely ignored the wishes of the family, and ultimately broke their pledge made to them only hours after they witnessed the return to the Unites States of Chris’s remains.

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2012/09/22/sick-cnn-admits-concealing-critical-evidence-in-ambassador-stevens-murder/

CNN’s Brian Stelter keeps ‘Oprah for President’ hope alive thanks to this SNL clip

Oprah Winfrey’s speech at the Golden Globes sparked rumors of a 2020 presidential run — something people close to Oprah have said she has no interest in. However, the mere possibility obviously intrigues CNN’s Brian Stelter, who spent part of yesterday continuing to chew on the remote possibility with help from an SNL skit:

Read more: https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2018/01/15/cnns-brian-stelter-keeps-oprah-for-president-hope-alive-thanks-to-this-snl-clip/

President Pranab Mukherjee delivers special lecture to students on Teacher’s Day – Times of India

Around 80 students of classes XI and XII of Delhi’s Dr Rajendra Prasad Sarvodaya Vidyalaya listened intently as President Pranab Mukherjee, their special teacher on the occasion of Teachers’ Day, delivered a lecture. The President took an hour-long lesson on history of Indian politics.

Read more: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/President-Pranab-Mukherjee-delivers-special-lecture-to-students-on-Teachers-Day/articleshow/54013451.cms

YAAAS! Instapundit uses Laurence Tribe’s anti-Trump tweet to BLAST Loretta Lynch, and it’s PERFECT

We’re all wondering if people like Laurence Tribe watched the same Comey testimony that we did … OR if perhaps they’re just THAT desperate to believe somehow what was said harmed Trump. Because unless you’re looking to spew narrative and pretend he said something he didn’t, the only person who really got jacked up yesterday was Loretta Lynch.

Ain’t it grand?

Read more: http://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2017/06/09/yaaas-instapundit-uses-laurence-tribes-anti-trump-tweet-to-blast-loretta-lynch-and-its-perfect/

Personality and Individual Differences

Revisiting the Classic Studies is a series of texts that introduces readers to the studies in psychology that changed the way we think about core topics in the discipline today. It provokes students to ask more interesting and challenging questions about the field by encouraging a deeper level of engagement, both with the details of the studies themselves and with the nature of their contribution. Edited by leading scholars in their field and written by researchers at the cutting edge of these developments, the chapters in each text provide details of the original works and their theoretical and empirical impact, and then discuss the ways in which thinking and research has advanced in the years since the studies were conducted. Personality and Individual Differences: Revisiting the Classic Studies traces 14 ground-breaking studies by researchers such as Hans Eysenck, Raymond Cattell, Ernest Tupes and Raymond Christal to re-examine and reflect on their findings and engage in a lively discussion of the subsequent work that they have inspired.