Lesson Plans that Reach the Multiple Intelligences

American schools have traditionally favored those students who excel in the linguistic and analytical arenas because these skills are highly valued in our culture. Unfortunately, this traditional approach leaves certain students behind to stumble blindly through an educational system which ignores their unique abilities. This is not to say that the development of linguistic and analytical skills should be abandoned in favor of nontraditional approaches to education. Rather, traditional and nontraditional approaches should be combined to formulate a method of education that is best suited to the students who populate our classrooms.

Is China Testing Bio Weapons on Its Own People?

Well the conspiracy theorists are out in full force I see. I had an interesting meeting the other day at a coffee shop and talked with a highly paranoid chap, who claimed to have some real insider information. He said that the Chinese were experimenting with their own populations with new vaccines for bird flu.

Kids and Lifebooks: Tips for Social Workers

Social workers: Learn how to help foster children understand their past and then move onto their future by creating a Lifebook.Bolster this child's self esteem with a book all about them.

Insighting Human Behavior thru Gravity Wave Simulations of the Moon

Every police officer will tell you that when there is a full moon, the natives are restless and it will be a long night, with lots of arrests and paperwork? This is a known fact one which cannot be dismissed so easily after such basic observations.

Solution Focus Process: Solution Talk vs. Problem Talk Pt I

Solution Focus does not try to overcome resistance to change, but rather, find where the change is already occurring in the system and accentuating it.

What's the Problem: Introducing Solution Focus Pt 1

Solution Focus is the brain child of Insoo Kim Berg and Steve de Shazer. This positive approach to problem resolution is rooted in the tradition of Milton Erickson’s brief therapy. It assumes that small modifications in the individual’s cognitive and behavioral expressions can lead to significant life changes.

The Iron Mask - The Common Sources of Personality Disorders

Do all personality disorders have a common psychodynamic source? To what stage of personal development can we attribute this common source? Can the paths leading from that common source to each of ...

The Joan of Arc Complex

Sometimes I think that I have a mental health problem and that at any minute the pharmaceutical companies are going to develop a cute little green star-shaped pill to cure me of my ailment. I call i...

HypoManiacs Often Misunderstood

Psychological Studies and Personalities for $200 Bob.

Get Out of Jail Free: Stop Being Defensive

When Marcus and Sally first met they immediately felt like kindred spirits. Marcus was generally warm and open. But as their relationship continued, Sally noticed that sometimes when he was upset he ...

Accepting New Ideas

How our mind naturally prevents us from accepting, or even entertaining new ideas, and what we can do about that.

The Psychology of Torture

There is one place in which one's privacy, intimacy, integrity and inviolability are guaranteed - one's body, a unique temple and a familiar territory of sensa and personal history. The torturer inva...