How Mindfulness Can Help Mental Health?

How Mindfulness Can Help Mental Health?

General

What Is Mindfulness?  So often, we move through our days in a hurry, focused on all the urgent tasks and responsibilities to fulfill. Our minds are either stuck in the past or worried about the future. As a result, we live on autopilot, disconnected from the present...
Sport psychologists and Mental Health

Sport psychologists and Mental Health

General

What is Sport Psychology? According to Irene Lopez at WebMD, in simple terms, sport psychology studies how psychological factors affect athletic performance. Sport psychologists also look at how taking part in sports, exercise, and other physical activities affects...
How Do Trauma-Based Therapies Work?

How Do Trauma-Based Therapies Work?

Depression, Postnatal Depression

Trauma-based therapy (also known as trauma-focused therapy) is an effective treatment for individuals with a history of trauma, such as those with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Trauma-focused therapies use experiential, cognitive, and behavioral techniques to...
Understanding Impulse-Control Disorders

Understanding Impulse-Control Disorders

General

Impulsivity refers to a tendency to respond hastily to internal or external cues. For instance, impulsive people tend to speak as soon as a thought occurs to them.  Or to purchase an item immediately and spontaneously, with little internal debate about the quality,...