Category Archives: Resources for Interns

Learning links and information that might help interns advance their training.

Friday Factoid Catch-Up: Teen Coping Strategies

Posted on February 27, 2017 by Susan Vaught

A recent article in the New York Times by Lisa Damour (2017) discussed coping strategies of teenagers.Ā  Along with feedback from practicing psychologists, Damour provided some interesting descriptors of coping mechanisms that may be criticized or possibly overlooked by adults.Ā  … Continue reading →

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Article Review: Marek, R. J., Heinberg, L. J., Lavery, M., Rish, J M., & Ashton, K. (2016)’s A Review of Psychological Assessment Instruments For Use in Bariatric Surgery Evaluations

Posted on February 5, 2017 by Susan Vaught

  Marek, Heinberg, Lavery, Rish, and Ashton (2016) offer a thorough review of psychological assessment instruments for bariatric surgery patients.Ā  Through their literature review, they highlight the association of pre-surgical psychological factors with weight gain post-op and recurrence of behavioral … Continue reading →

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Friday Factoids: Robots could help solve social care crisis, and evolutionarily destroy the function of our mirror neurons at the same time! (How wonderful?)

Posted on February 5, 2017 by Susan Vaught

    International teams of engineers are developing humanoid robots to deal with our ‘social care crisis’.   Tasked with the responsibility to interact with the elderly in care homes, these ‘personal social’ robots will be able to be specifically … Continue reading →

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Friday Factoids Catch-Up: If You Want To Be An Effective Therapist, You Should Learn How To Use POTT!!!

Posted on February 5, 2017 by Susan Vaught

  Research findings have finally drawn our attention to something tantalizingly useful: the benefits of POTT use among therapist. Even better news, its cost effective, sharing is encouraged and it is totally legal to use in any state at any … Continue reading →

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Friday Factoids Catch-Up: City Interns Have Higher Burnout!

Posted on January 25, 2017 by Susan Vaught

City Interns, have higher burnout rates!   Or, one current internā€™s shameful ā€“but heartfelt-plug, to incoming interns.   Going through this stressful ordeal only one year ago, I often wondered about the creators of the psychology internship process? Obviously, self-care, … Continue reading →

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Friday Factoids Catch-Up: Kids and Coping

Posted on January 25, 2017 by Susan Vaught

Coping skills are important not only because they allow children to manage their social emotional challenges, they may also contribute to their feelings of connectedness. Success for Kids (SFK) is a program that provides a curriculum for childrenā€™s social emotional … Continue reading →

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Friday Factoids Catch-Up: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Posted on January 25, 2017 by Susan Vaught

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has been a hot topic for some time now and more and more children are being diagnosed with ADHD than ever before. Lunau (2014) quoted Enrico Gnaulati by writing that an ADHD diagnosis is ā€œas … Continue reading →

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Friday Factoids Catch-Up: The Multiple Roles of a Psychologist

Posted on January 25, 2017 by Susan Vaught

The role of psychologists is changing as overall mental health service needs and service systems change. Separating medical health from mental health is not always so clear cut. With advances in the medical fields, psychologists must also embrace a new … Continue reading →

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Friday Factoids Catch-Up: Bilingualism, Biculturalism and Personality

Posted on January 25, 2017 by Susan Vaught

There is plenty of research dedicated to the topics of bilingualism and biculturalism, but they may often be lumped together and defined as one in the same. Grosjean (2015) attempts to describe how a bicultural bilingual can take on different … Continue reading →

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Article Review: Bullying, Depression, and Suicide Risk in a Pediatric Primary Care Sample (Kodish, Herres, Shearer, et al, 2016)

Posted on December 29, 2016 by Susan Vaught

Kodish, Herres, and Shearer, et al’s Bullying, Depression, and Suicide Risk in a Pediatric Primary Care Sample seeks to explore what, if any, causal relationship there may be between bullying and the prevalence of suicide among youth aged 14 to … Continue reading →

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