Counselling helpline successful among employees of SMEs, will be open to all firms. Since the Health Promotion Board (HPB) began its pilot phone counselling helpline six months ago, it has received about 200 calls from workers, with some saying that family problems were contributing to greater stress at work. Each call lasted between 15 and 30 ...
Date Posted: November 11, 2011
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The key to contentment and happiness is accepting life as it is. The Buddha said, "I teach two things: the presence of dukkha in our lives and the path to the end of dukkha." Dukkha refers to the dissatisfaction we experience with the circumstances ...
Nov 10
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People with birthmarks, scars and other facial disfigurements are more likely to receive poor ratings in job interviews, according to a new study by researchers at Rice University and the University of Houston.
"Discrimination Against Facially ...
Nov 10
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When it comes time to pick a group leader, who are you likely to choose? Would it be one of the people eagerly waving their hands in the air in a meeting or volunteering within seconds from an email invitation? These individuals are probably the ...
Nov 9
GOThey call it “the match.” Every year, thousands of graduate students in clinical psychology pick the hospitals and clinics where they would like to do yearlong internships. They rank their choices. The internship programs also rank the ...
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Stress was put on the map, so to speak, by a Hungarian — born Canadian endocrinologist named Hans Hugo Bruno Selye (ZEL — yeh) in 1950, when he presented his research on rats at the annual convention of the American ...
Nov 8
GOAfter men become fathers for the first time, they show significant decreases in crime, tobacco and alcohol use, according to a new, 19-year study. Researchers assessed more than 200 at-risk boys annually from the age of 12 to 31, and examined how ...
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Problems like anxiety and depression are caused by psychological and environmental factors, and are known to be influenced by genetic proclivities. However, it is still not clear how each factor affects the brain's functions to induce anxious and ...
Nov 5
GOA well-known psychologist in the Netherlands whose work has been published widely in professional journals falsified data and made up entire experiments, an investigating committee has found. Experts say the case exposes deep flaws in the way ...
Nov 5
GOHere is what happened. My 16 year old son and I were having an argument about something that seemed minor. Somehow, this escalated into a loud and emotionally charged fight after I said something about my son's best friend. As the fight continued my ...
Nov 4
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Researchers recently reported that optimism may not be as rosy as once thought. In fact, optimism may actually be due to a brain malfunction. How is that for a glass-half-empty view of the world?
Scientists at the Wellcome Trust Center for ...
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Loneliness is not only heartbreaking, it breaks up a normal night's sleep, a new study shows. Researchers say compromised sleep may be one pathway by which feelings of loneliness adversely affect our health. "It's not just a product of very lonely ...
Nov 3
GOSINGAPORE - To help parents make better decisions on which school is best for their special needs children, the Ministry of Education (MOE) has come up with a set of guidelines for professionals to provide consistent advice to them. The ...
Nov 3
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Contrary to many people's instincts, money spent on others gives more happiness than money spent on themselves.
This is not a radical idea which will blow your mind with its incredible newness. Far from it. But because it's advice that sometimes ...
Nov 2
GOIn times of stress, we're often encouraged to pause for a moment and simply be in the 'now.' This kind of mindfulness, an essential part of Buddhist and Indian Yoga traditions, has entered the mainstream as people try to find ways to combat stress ...
Nov 2
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We hear it again and again, that the best things in life aren’t things. Yet we keep buying stuff. So much stuff that to contain it all Australian homes – at typically 215 square metres – are now the biggest in the world, even bigger than the ...
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