Word: psychologist
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...Among those 10 candidates is Miranda Banks, a sports psychologist who describes herself in her online profile as "dynamic and enthusiastic" and who believes "our people are our wealth." Speaking at the launch on Monday, she matched Obama for optimism, but struggled with the rhetoric. "We'll stick it out," she said of Britain's current economic difficulties, "if we have a picture that is so strong we can smell it." Mixed metaphors aside, pollsters shouldn't write her off just yet. In an age when people will pay to vote for aspiring pop stars more readily than they...
Qasab's is the classic profile of a jihadi, according to Pakistani psychologist Sohail Abbas. In 2002, Abbas interviewed 517 men who had been jailed for going to fight U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Unlike the stereotypical image of a terrorist - illiterate, fanatic and trained in madrasahs, or religious seminaries - the men had relatively high levels of literacy and were more likely to have been educated in government schools than in madrasahs. Religion wasn't necessarily the only reason they turned to jihad. A Pakistani who enrolled in a training camp in Kunar province, Afghanistan, told TIME that he went...
Schmidt, a developmental psychologist and instructor of pediatrics at the Medical School and a research associate at CMCH, added that parents should be encouraged to limit their children’s television viewing...
...control group of kids was treated for far longer than 10 weeks; in fact, they had an average of 23 weekly sessions, although those sessions were divided among physicians, physical therapists and a psychologist or psychiatrist. Each day, these kids were also given up to 100 mg of amitriptyline, a sedating drug that used to be prescribed as an antidepressant but is now used more often as a treatment for chronic pain...
...this succeeds isn't entirely clear, but the researchers used a simplified version of ACT with the kids. Typical ACT sessions with adults require difficult meditation strategies, but psychologist Rikard Wicksell, who led the Swedish team, says the researchers wanted to make sure their strategy was age-appropriate, so they didn't require meditation and instead focused on behavioral activation: getting the kids moving...