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...about things beyond their control, such as earthquakes, nuclear war and sars, inflating in their minds the danger to themselves and their families. Worse, sufferers feel compelled to conceal their fears from everyone and often grow into depressed teens. "Anxious children are too rarely brought to us," says clinical psychologist Dr. Paula Barrett, director of Pathways Health and Research Centre in Brisbane, "so we've started going to them...
...Barrett was drawing on work by American psychologist Phillip Kendall to design friends, researchers were fine-tuning their theories on the types of children most prone to anxiety. They now believe that 1 in 5 is born, as Barrett describes it, "physiologically sensitive to stress and certain stimuli." A test for this sees three-month-old babies held by their mothers and exposed to a sudden noise. The heart rate of the sensitive child rises higher and more quickly than the average child's, and remains elevated for longer...
Barrett first read psychologist Kendall's work while researching her Master's thesis on childhood fears in 1992. She was fascinated, and later wrote to him seeking permission to develop it. Kendall had challenged the prevailing notion that children weren't capable of thinking about how they think, and that it was therefore pointless to try to treat their anxiety with cognitive behavioral therapy; the only solution, it was believed, was to help the parents manage the child's behavior. Barrett agreed CBT directed at the child could work, and thought Kendall's "Coping Cat" program could be built...
...many singles seem to crave the human touch. "People like to think matchmakers are in it not just for money but because they have a sixth sense," says Darren Star, creator of Miss Match. "A matchmaker is part psychologist, part psychic...
...according to Neil Clark Warren, the founder of eHarmony, no human knows enough about the complexities of modern romance to handle such a task. So Warren drew upon his 37 years as a psychologist to create an intricate, 29-variable, computerized personality profile that he claims practically ensures accurate matches. Warren says his service, launched in 2000, has resulted in more than 2,000 marriages. "The task of choosing a marriage partner is so much more complex than anyone credits it with being," he says. "You need the technology...