Happy Saturday, Psych Central readers!
May is Mental Health Awareness Month (or, “Mental Health Month”), but of course you knew that, didn’t you?
Whether or not you did, Mental Health America (which started Mental Health Month way back in 1949) has provided a ton of information for individuals and organizations to help them promote mental health awareness this month. There’s even a handy dandy toolkit you can download.
Go check it out and get busy this month! But before you do, check out this week’s Psychology Around the Net which covers political correctness personalities, how Alzheimer’s patients’ caregivers can take better care of themselves, how maternal smoking does (or doesn’t?) affect a child’s mental health, and more.
The Personality of Political Correctness: Jordan Peterson and Christine Brophy of the University of Toronto’s Department of Psychology conducted a recent study that analyzed personality correctness personality. What’d they find? There are two categories: PC-Egalitarianism and PC-Authoritarianism. Among several other characteristics, PC-Egalitarians tend to reflect more “general sensitivity to offense” while PC-Authoritarians generally “have the presence of an anxiety or a mood disorder in the individual or immediate family.”
Personalized Psychiatry Matches Therapy to Specific Patients with Depression: So, so many doctors and patients are all to familiar with the “hit or miss” (then “hit or miss” again, and again, and possibly again…) way of finding the right antidepressant for a particular patient’s depression. However, there may be a more effective way to find the right medication–specifically, by using the patient’s sex, body mass index, and symptom profile.
Millennials, Here’s How Social Media Impacts Your Relationships: Lack of personal attention, jealousy, distrust, and infidelity–these are just a few ways social media could wreak havoc on your relationship.
Olympians Michael Phelps and Allison Schmitt Receive Mental Health Award: During a National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day event in Washington, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price presented Michael Phelps and Allison Schmitt with recognition awards: Phelps for his initiatives for health living through the Michael Phelps Foundation and Schmitt for her openness about her own mental health experiences at various seminars and conferences.
Smoking While Pregnant May Not Lead to Mental Illness in Kids: Study:: Well, it’s still not a good idea given the numerous physical health problems a baby born to a mother who smoked during pregnancy can have (such as being born with birth defects, prematurely, and/or with a low birth weight), a new report shows smoking while pregnant doesn’t seem to increase the changes of severe mental illness in children later in life.
Who Suffers More – People With Alzheimer’s or Their Caregivers? By keeping in mind these three following traits of people with Alzheimer’s disease, caregivers can help reduce their own stress.
from World of Psychology https://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2017/05/06/psychology-around-the-net-may-6-2017/
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