We all have areas in which we desire to work. Sometimes you choose your career because of inspiration from role models, good returns or a passion in it. Just like other careers, sport psychology requires a person who is ready to acquire the needed skills, abilities and knowledge. Before you start your feet on this path you should be ready to interact well with athletes to help them achieve their goals.

Sports psychologist should have the needed skills that will be effective...

In many cases when a married couple decides to get divorced, the children can often be forgotten. It is not that the parents have purposely forgotten about their children, they have just become so caught up in the tension between each other that how their fighting and divorce is affecting their child can go unnoticed. A divorce does not simply mean an life altering change in the parents lives, it also means a life altering change in the child’s life, especially for children who...

A depressed person is often socially deprived due to certain misconceptions prevalent in society. Society considers a depressed person as a threat to it and avoids being victimized by the errant behavior of the patient. Even the family members and peer groups show a tendency of avoidance. They usually keep a fair distance from the patient and don’t really bother about the complexity of the situation.

This sort of social deprivation leads to the...

A new study of U. S. armed forces who served in Iraq and Afghanistan from 2000 to 2006 revealed that combat duty not surprisingly increased the incidence of depression in soldiers. The study, conducted by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, focused on subjects from all of the major military service branches.

The Wright-Patterson study found that the new diagnoses for depression among personnel deployed was 6 percent for...

Complete recovery is a 2-stage process- recovery from addictions and traumatic histories, and recovery of fulfillment, wisdom, serenity, and emotional, spiritual and sexual wholeness.

As we enter the dawn of a new millennium, traditional psychotherapy-and the therapist's role-appear caught in the sort of crisis described by Denise Breton and Christopher Largent in their book, The Paradigm Conspiracy.1 The detached, analytical approach often practiced by psychotherapists since...

When it comes to the management, we naturally look towards big management schools and end up with a man well dressed as a manager who wears a smile on face all the time and who knows all the situations and their respective handling. But this is a truth half known. Men must be taught rigorously to become a manager who after years of hard work learns new skills that they use as panacea for every problem. And the same men struggle to find their car keys and wallet at the office time back...

Bulimiais a psychological disorder that is caused by a skewed body image .Two forms of bulimia are recognized by theAmerican Psychological Association, both of which can be devastating to a person’s health and after prolonged practice, may even cause death. An alarming rate of people suffer from the disease, many of them younger than 30. Peer pressure, the media and other mental factors may have an influence on adolescents who suffer from the disease. Other factors such as family...

Four main types of dissociative disorders are currently identified and recognized by the psychiatric community. While certain symptoms are common between each type, each disorder has its own specific dissociative signs not shared with the other three. These disorders can also becomorbid with other mental illnesses and conditions, including one or more of the other dissociative disorders. Patients with any of the four types may experience loss of memory, detachment, anxiety, depression,...

Each and everyone of us have the tendency to suffer from depression, but we all have different levels of tolerance to handle it. One person's ability to handle and fight depression may not be the same as yours or mine. Now the question is, why do some people never even have to complain in having to fight depression at all, at the same time, manage to enjoy a happy and stress free life?

Although you and I just like everybody else out there hate depression, we must admit that...

I was talking to a friend, who was talking about the combination of low self esteem and egomania which he had said he was experiencing in his work as an artist who sold art work at shows and galleries.

Neither are the most desirable, any number of trips can form from the feeling of being undesirable.

Egomania or too much ego isn’t necessarily wrong but shouldn’t be automatic.

I can leave my ego intact if I’m not sailing it or putting it the...