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Important Literature Concerning The Aging Population

In Psychology And Aging. Addressing Mental Health Needs Of Older Adults, The American Psychological Association (2019) talked about the numerous health challenges older citizens can experience, and how current mental health professionals and those entering the discipline can reduce those problems.

 

Reference

American Psychological Association. (2019). Psychology And Aging. Addressing Mental Health Needs Of Older Adults. Retrieved From

https://www.apa.org/pi/aging/resources/guides/aging.pdf

 

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Brain Stimulation As A Form Of Pain Management, Potential For Reduction of Opioid Usage (Addiction, Early Deaths)

Ahn, Prim, Alexander, McCulloch & Frohlich (2018) talked about the future ability to reduce opioid prescriptions by utilizing a brain stimulation method in the article, Identifying And Engaging Neuronal Oscillations By Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation In Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized, Crossover, Double-Blind, Sham-Controlled Pilot Study.”

 

Reference

Ahn, S., Prim, J. H., Alexander, M. L., McCulloch, K. L., & Frohlich, F. (2018).  Identifying And Engaging Neuronal Oscillations By Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation In Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain:  A Randomized, Crossover, Double-Blind, Sham-Controlled Pilot Study. Retrieved From https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181108130546.htm The Journal of Pain, 2018; DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2018.09.004

 

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Fun, Mental Speed Exam, Cognition

The following self-test allow participants to learn how rapidly they “…can process information and make decisions based upon that information” (Psychology Today, 2018):

 

Mental Speed Test – Version 1

 

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Reference

Psychology Today (2018). Mental Speed Test – Version 1. Retrieved from https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/tests/iq/mental-speed-test-version-1

 

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Psychologists, Conservative Ideology, Bias In The Workplace

When a person studies Mental Health at university, then graduates, that individual is about helping members of society.  When that same individual becomes a therapist with strong ethics, performing assessments and administering techniques which can allow the patient to have a better quality of life, that is a professional who should be looked upon favorably.  Unfortunately, that is not true for the therapist with a Conservative mindset.

In Where Are The Conservative Psychologists Hiding? And Why? , (Herbert, 2012) indicates that being a Conservative Mental Health professional is a challenging experience, even before the hiring process begins.  In fact, the experience is opposite what the Mental Health community symbolizes and required to practice, on many levels.  Also, the experience perpetuates difficulties analogous to what the elderly, disabled, racial and ethnic, gender (male and female), and LGBT groups deal with in society.

 

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Reference

 

Herbert, W. (2012). Where Are The Conservative Psychologists Hiding?  And Why?  Huffington Post.  Retrieved from https://www.huffingtonpost.com/wray-herbert/conservative-psychologists_b_1818538.html

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Clarity, Aiming For The Highest Potential, Establishing Endurance, Becoming The Most Authentic Self Ever, Growing Healthy Self-Esteem And Emotional Maturation; The Quotables

They are wonderful!:

 

Two roads diverged in a wood

And I–I chose the one less-travelled by.

And that has made all the difference.

– Robert Frost (The Road Not Taken)

 

 

 

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

– Scott Hamilton

 

 

 

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

– Michelangelo

 

 

 

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.  Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

– General Colin Powell

 

 

 

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

– William Shakespeare

 

 

 

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

– First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt

 

 

 

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

– Clergy William Barclay

 

 

 

Reacting in anger or annoyances will not advance one’s ability to persuade.

– Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

 

 

 

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity.  The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

– Sir Winston Churchill

 

 

 

There are 2 rules in life.

Number 1 – Never quit.

Number 2 – Never forget rule number 1.

– Duke Ellington

 

 

 

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.

– Willie Nelson

 

 

 

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References

 

BrainyQuote. (2018). Famous Quotes. Retrieved from https://www.brainyquote.com/

 

Good Reads, Inc. (2018). Quote by Duke Ellington.  Retrieved from https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/241060-there-are-2-rules-in-life-number-1–never-quit