Word: psychologist
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...knew I needed help," says Fogarty, 58. "But going and sharing it all seemed too confronting," and as a pensioner, she worried what counseling would cost. Quietly desperate, she combed the Internet for help - and found ptsd-online.org, set up by psychologist Britt Klein, of Swinburne University of Technology, to trial Web-based clinical treatment for people with post-traumatic stress disorder. After a phone interview to confirm her diagnosis, Fogarty was accepted into the e-therapy program. "I had a real gut feeling, Oh, this is just the right thing," she says. "It just seemed like, here is something...
...help. As she went through the 10 weeks of lessons on techniques for tackling her fears and activities to practice what she'd learned, "I felt more confident," she says, "like there was something I could do to manage the way I was feeling." She was guided by a psychologist who emailed her once a week (e-therapy may also include text messaging and access to private online forums). "Even though I never met her," Fogarty says, "I found her very understanding, perfectly accepting of how I felt." Though she sometimes longed for more frequent emails, in her own notes...
Soto's work with Chicago's starting-pitching staff is even more impressive than his swing. It's hard enough for any catcher to play both tactician and psychologist for a pitcher. Being a rookie compounds the difficulty of the task. But Soto, 25, doesn't shy away from his elders, and he's won the pitchers over. "This is the same game I've been playing since I was 5," says Soto. "Nobody is going to come in and tell me what's going on. I've always kind of taken charge. I want to have that power...
...Montreal Neurological Institute and a dozen other institutions, most scientists believed the brain was largely a finished product by the time a child reached the age of 12. Not only is it full-grown in size, Giedd explains, but "in a lot of psychological literature, traced back to [Swiss psychologist Jean] Piaget, the highest rung in the ladder of cognitive development was about age 12 - formal operations." In the past, children entered initiation rites and started learning trades at about the onset of puberty. Some theorists concluded from this that the idea of adolescence was an artificial construct, a phenomenon...
That is especially so because the brain regions that put the brakes on risky, impulsive behavior are still under construction. "The parts of the brain responsible for things like sensation seeking are getting turned on in big ways around the time of puberty," says Temple University psychologist Laurence Steinberg. "But the parts for exercising judgment are still maturing throughout the course of adolescence. So you've got this time gap between when things impel kids toward taking risks early in adolescence, and when things that allow people to think before they act come online. It's like turning...