PETALING JAYA: Maids should be screened for mental health before being employed to avoid future cases of abuse, urged the Malaysian Maid Employers Association (Mama). Its president Engku Ahmad Fauzi Engku Muhsein also proposed that employers be checked for mental illnesses as well to be fair to the maid.
Date Posted: March 1, 2014
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Psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl once wrote, “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.” For most people, feeling happy and finding life meaningful are both important and related ...
Feb 28
Categories: Happiness, Life Purpose / Meaning / Inner-Guidance
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Procrastination and impulsivity are both bad habits. They cause problems in school, at work, in life. But psychologically, they would seem to have little in common. Impulsivity, after all, is all about now - wanting and needing something ...
Feb 28
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A new University of British Columbia study identifies an important molecular change that occurs in the brain when we learn and remember.
Published this month in Nature Neuroscience, the research shows that learning stimulates our brain cells in a ...
Feb 27
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SINGAPORE - To help those who have recovered from mental illness secure jobs and reintegrate into society, Kaplan Singapore has worked with the Singapore Association for Mental Health (SAMH) to introduce a series of courses designed to equip them ...
Feb 27
Categories: Mental Health in Asia, Workplace Issues
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The government is being urged to set up a mental-health commission to manage the problems of long-term patients and fill the gap left by the present lack of an overall strategy.
The call from the Hong Kong Mental Health Council said current policy ...
Feb 27
Categories: Mental Health in Asia
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A new study from Cornell University investigates the extent to which people overestimates the extent to which their actions and appearance are noted by others.
Most of us stand out in our own minds. Whether in the midst of a personal triumph or an ...
Feb 26
Categories: Self-Confidence, Self-Criticism, Self-Esteem
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In 1998, there was a groundbreaking study telling parents that their children were at risk of getting autism from vaccines. Parents everywhere collectively gasped. After all, they had been told for years vaccines were the best way to prevent any ...
Feb 26
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders
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The workplace plays a vital role in creating a suicide safe community, according to a new position statement released by Suicide Prevention Australia (SPA).
The Statement calls on organisations of all sizes to implement workplace policies and ...
Feb 26
Categories: Workplace Issues
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Though his 18-year-old patient Ida Bauer was "in the first bloom of youth," Sigmund Freud wrote in 1905, she had come to him suffering from coughing fits and episodes of speechlessness. She'd become depressed and withdrawn, even hinting at suicide. ...
Feb 25
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Victorian kids as young as eight are becoming hooked on computer games and the internet, with some refusing to go to school, suffering anxiety and depression, getting violent and withdrawing socially.
Mental health professionals say the condition, ...
Feb 25
Categories: Addictions
GOMany people encounter workplace issues in their working lives and many of them can be related to the ...
Feb 25
Categories: Workplace Issues
GOUniversity of South Australia clinical psychologist Susan Simpson says research has shown telemental health services can be just as effective as face-to-face treatment. "Some clients actually indicate that they prefer video conferencing to ...
Feb 24
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ARE marriages today better or worse than they used to be?
This vexing question is usually answered in one of two ways. According to the marital decline camp, marriage has weakened: Higher divorce rates reflect a lack of commitment and a decline of ...
Feb 24
Categories: Relationships & Marriage
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Chronic stress that produces inflammation and anxiety in mice appears to prime their immune systems for a prolonged fight, causing the animals to have an excessive reaction to a single acute stressor weeks later, new research suggests.
After the ...
Feb 24
Categories: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma / Complex PTSD, Stress ...
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