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- Psychology Professor Granted Tenure
- Psychology Degrees USA Guide Launches on All Psychology Schools
- Sports psychology awareness
| Psychology Professor Granted Tenure Posted: 18 Jun 2010 01:30 PM PDT Psychology professor Matthew K. Nock, whose work focuses on self-injury and suicidal behavior, has been granted tenure, the University announced last week. A member of the faculty since 2003, Nock has garnered many national and University awards, including two Harvard teaching awards and two American Psychological Association awards for his scientific contributions to the academic community. The psychologist, whose teaching repertoire at Harvard includes a course on self-destructive behaviors, said he chose to continue his work at Harvard largely due to quality of the student body, whose passion for research has made his time at the University "really exciting." Nock's research seeks to explain why people commit suicide and engage in non-suicidal self-injury, such as burning or cutting themselves. Studies have shown that non-suicidal self-injury is a psychological disorder that affects roughly 4 percent of American adults and perhaps as high as 21 percent of adolescents, according to the press release announcing Nock's appointment. "As people age they [learn] healthier ways of coping with problems they are experiencing," said Nock, adding that behaviors like burning or cutting are generally viewed as a "maladaptive way to regulate one's emotions." Nock is currently serving as a co-Principal Investigator on a five-year U.S. Army study about American soldiers suffering from suicidal behavior. "In some cases, more soldiers die by suicide than in combat, which is really concerning," said Nock, adding that the rate of suicide in the army has "skyrocketed" in recent years. Though the study has only just begun, Nock said that he hopes its findings will help prevent suicides in the Army and lead researchers to develop a better understanding of suicide in the general population. —Staff writer Gautam S. Kumar can be reached at gkumar@college.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Julia L. Ryan can be reached at jryan@college.harvard.edu. Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Psychology Degrees USA Guide Launches on All Psychology Schools Posted: 18 Jun 2010 12:00 AM PDT Top psychology directory maps student road to the right psychology degree program. Seattle, Washington (PRWEB) June 18, 2010 -- Finding the right psychology degree or locating the school that best fits a student's career goals can be challenging as well as overwhelming. To simplify this process, All Psychology Schools has launched Psychology Degrees USA, a regional guide to top accredited psychology degree programs. This geographically-focused resource guide examines a cross-section of major U.S. cities and states, providing detailed information for prospective students: "Recognizing that different geographic areas of the nation represent vast personal and professional advantages for students interested in studying—or practicing—psychology has allowed us to focus on unique state and city traits," says Paula Nechak, career researcher for All Psychology Schools. "We've presented cultural and educational opportunities in a way that will help students or established career professionals easily digest what would, in other circumstances, be an enormous amount of information." Now prospective students, those hoping to continue their education or established psychology professionals shifting gears to a new psychology specialty, can find pertinent metropolitan area data and psychology degree programs. From Los Angeles to Miami, salary, cultural and climate information is readily available. With 10 major cities profiled, as well as 10 states of the union—including Arizona, New York and Texas—students can learn everything they'll need to know to begin a top degree program in the best location in the nation, for their particular tastes and psychology career objectives. About All Psychology Schools About All Star Directories Press Contact ### Dana Pake Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Posted: 18 Jun 2010 09:37 AM PDT Most of you will be familiar with the 'standard terms' you often hear associated with sports psychology and football performance, such as confidence, concentration, anxiety, fear & choking and so fourth. Whilst these are all areas a sports psychologist can support a player with, today I wanted to discuss the psychological responses to injury and the impact on the healing process as this is an area most footballers experience at some point in their career, either directly, or by observing the psychological effects injury can have on a team mate. Footballers, like any other group, can experience loss in many ways; loss of form, loss of speed or loss of not being able to perform at the expense of an injury. The 'grieving responses' and impact on the 'healing process' are often ignored or misunderstood by coaches, fitness trainers and to a certain extent footballers and athletes themselves. Over the last twenty years a great deal of research has been conducted on professional athletes in a range of sports, and findings have shown that after sustaining an injury, professional athletes experience the same psychological responses as individuals who are grieving the loss of a loved one. This holistic research over the last two decades has looked at grief and loss models and typically found that professional athletes go through similar stages: i) shock / denial; ii) despair; iii) anger; iv) depression; v) pre-occupation and; vi) re-organisation, until the vii) acceptance phase is reached. The acceptance stage still does not mean the footballer is in a happy psychological state, it merely means he has got to a point where there is less emotion involved. Of course the magnitude and extent to which a footballer or professional athlete experiences and stays in the first four stages depends on the following factors; the timing of the injury and what's at stake; the severity of the injury; the player's injury history and how the injury was caused. For example, a player who sustains a minor injury niggle and misses a couple of training sessions will experience less intensity with the psychological responses (depending on the individual's baseline) than a player who will miss a major match or tournament. Re- occurring injuries on the other hand can cause more frustration and tension, whereas a player who is injured by an opponent's malicious tackle may have increased anger. The research on injury response in professional athletes also shows that an athlete's psychological state will fluctuate, especially between the first four stages during the rehabilitation process. How do these responses impact upon the healing process? To determine the severity of these states, careful monitoring of the athlete's psychological and psycho-physiological states via biofeedback (e.g. stress / emotional levels / muscular tension) from the onset of injury to return to performance and beyond is essential. Scientists have found that psychological stress, often bought on by worry can increase the levels of some hormones in the blood. These hormones can slow the delivery of certain compounds called cytokines to the origin of the injury to start the healing process. Studies have also demonstrated that psychological stress is associated with slower repair and healing of surgery wounds because psychological stress is shown to impair the inflammatory response and matrix degradation processes in the wound immediately following surgery. Since professional footballers who undergo surgery may already be in a 'state' of despair, psychological monitoring and interventions to facilitate healing from the outset is even more important. Longer term, ongoing interventions and psycho-physiological monitoring to support the footballer with the healing process are a must. At the latter stages of injury rehabilitation the footballer must be supported with interventions to reduce any further worry about returning to performance and also alleviate any conscious and subconscious concerns they have over further injury. This is particularly important as we have already identified that stress related hormones slow compounds to help the healing process which is also critical in between vigorous return to training and matches. Quite often, we see footballers sustain other injuries when returning to performance, whilst these additional injuries could be caused for a variety of reasons, one shouldn't rule out the importance of full mind to body recovery and the impact of these psychological responses during the rehabilitation process. However, upsetting and frustrating injury can be for the player at the time, these experiences and having to cope with adversity can make the player mentally stronger, especially if they are learning more about the interaction of their mind and body during rehabilitation and return to performance. By Louise Ellis (www.louiseellis.com) BASES Accredited Sports psychologist & Performance Consultant LE Performance Consulting Ltd Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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