Word: psychologists
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Determining whether a student is just having a normal overload of work or whether there is something inherently more serious bothering someone is often like splitting hairs. According to Douglas H. Powell, a psychologist at UHS, certain personality changes can indicate that a person is suffering from a real psychological problem...
...Often there is a loss of a sense of humor as your adjustment deteriorates," says Powell, who has just written a soon-to-be released book called Teenagers: When to Worry and What to Do. The psychologist-turned-author says that experiencing these kinds of changes can be very frightening. Powell suggests that a person who finds himself in this sort of situation consider talking to someone at Harvard's mental health services...
...Personality characteristics and friendship patterns that begin to develop early in childhood can strongly influence later decisions regarding drug use," said Gene M. Smith, the study's author, a psychologist at MGH and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School...
Various researchers have blamed youth suicides on such disparate causes as the Viet Nam War, television, the drug culture and stress generated by the sheer number of baby boomers. Los Angeles Clinical Psychologist Michael Peck suggests that in today's highly mobile families, the high rate of divorce and generally "less available parenting" have left adolescents with little emotional backup...
Louise Kaplan, a New York psychologist specializing in childhood and adolescence, says teenagers go through a normal period of depression and mourning for the loss of childhood attachment. The job of parents, she says, is to help youngsters remove their passions from the family and place them in the outside community. "That's one reason why so many boys seem to kill themselves after breaking up with a girlfriend," she says. "The breakup is felt as a failure to break out of the family orbit...