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...This is an important part of the future of medicine," says health psychologist Ed Noffsinger, who introduced shared appointments to California's giant Kaiser Permanente system in 1996, and is now a full-time consultant in the field. "Most doctors are still using a system that was developed in an era of acute care, when we didn't even have antibiotics. It's a mistake to believe that same model is the best way of looking after people...
Depression too may respond to new, streamlined therapy techniques, especially cognitive therapy--a treatment aimed at helping patients reframe their view of the world so that setbacks and losses are put in less catastrophic perspective. "The therapist teaches relaxation skills and positive thinking," says Denise Chavira, clinical psychologist at the University of California at San Diego. "It goes beyond talk therapy." Unfortunately, medical insurance pays more readily for pills than these other treatments for adults and children...
...anted up for a seven-day ride through Bryce Canyon and the North Rim of the Grand Canyon last September. She just had one big (albeit strange) concern: weight gain. "It's hard to believe you could gain weight on a strenuous biking trip," says Summerell, a clinical psychologist from Plattsburgh, N.Y., "but the meals are so wonderful--multicourses, lots of wine, great desserts--that I actually did come home from one bike trip to Italy and couldn't get into a dress I needed to wear to a wedding...
...Psychologist Robert Sternberg's first field study in intelligence took place in grade school, when poor scores on IQ tests convinced him he was a "dum-dum." Largely thanks to an exceptional fourth-grade teacher, Sternberg managed to shed his self-doubt, improve his grades and go on to attend Yale University, but he never shook the sense that traditional tests are missing something. "You don't get to the top in life just on your IQ points or your SAT score," says Sternberg, now a professor at Yale and president of the American Psychological Association (APA). "You have...
DIED. SHIRLEY GLASS, 67, psychologist dubbed the "godmother" of research on infidelity; of breast cancer; in Owing Mills, Md. In magazine articles, TV interviews and a 2003 book, Not "Just Friends," Glass took a clinical approach to infidelity, treating it not as a moral issue but as a painful problem that could affect even successful marriages. Among her influential ideas: marriages could be threatened not only by sexual affairs but also by nonsexual relationships that were emotionally intimate...