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...discuss deep-seated anxieties that way as well? Some 150 counselors listed on the website metanoia.org/imhs offer online therapy by videoconferencing, e-mail or live chat. Skeptics say the lack of nonverbal cues makes online therapy not only ineffective but unethical and possibly illegal. But two UCLA professors, Marion Jacobs and Andrew Christiansen, plan to publish a study in the journal Professional Psychology this fall showing that at least one kind of computerized counseling may actually work...
...series of 30-min. online questionnaires aimed at identifying and helping people cope with everything from depression to relationship problems. Nancy, executive producer of a daily cable-TV show in Los Angeles, takes the sessions during long coffee breaks to help her deal with job stress. UCLA's Jacobs and Christiansen studied this program and, surprisingly, found that it helped people nearly as much as sessions with live therapists. "It takes people systematically through problems and helps them organize their thinking," says Jacobs...
...similar system is already in use at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA.) At Harvard Business School (HBS) a "Course Platform" on the Intranet makes all course assignments and other information available to students through their computers...
...similar system is already in use at theUniversity of California Los Angeles (UCLA.) AtHarvard Business School (HBS) a "Course Platform"on the Intranet makes all course assignments andother information available to students throughtheir computers...
...taking or other pleasurable activities. Participating in the action of a game--pushing buttons to score, shoot, bomb, fight or fly--entails neuromuscular coordination. "So the brain not only is seeing the images and getting stimulated, but it's also practicing a response," says Carole Lieberman, a psychiatrist at UCLA. "When the person is exposed to these violent media stimuli and it excites the psychoneurological receptors, it causes the person to feel this excitement, to feel a kind of high--and then to become addicted to whatever was giving him the high...