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Animal Interaction

5 Health Benefits of Pets (Plus: What’s Your Spirit Animal?)

  Saturday is International Homeless Animals Day. We thought you should know that. We thought you’d like to be aware that the third Saturday in August is the day designated back in 1992 by the International...

American Heroin Part 3: Hope and Recovery

As perceptions among lawmakers and medical professionals shift toward seeing the current heroin epidemic as a public health crisis, policies are slowly falling into place that are aimed at saving lives. But despite these...
child anxiety

Psychological Therapy Could Help Prevent Childhood Anxiety

Anxious parents tend to raise anxious children. But it doesn’t have to be that way. According to a 2014 study published in The American Journal of Psychiatry, preventative therapy and a change in parenting can...

Get a Grip on Anxiety – 5 Ways to Relieve Test Stress

Anxiety affects us all at one point or another. While people don’t necessarily get stressed out over the same things, the effects of anxiety over time are all similar. Prolonged bouts of stress can...
American Heroin: Needles in the Haystack

American Heroin: Medicine, Crisis, Epidemic – Part 2: Needles in the Haystack

From heroin’s origins to the pathways it takes to enter the country and the effect it has on cities and states around the U.S., this map is intended to give a broad stroke...
Clinical Psychologist

Clinical Psychologist Career Profile

Clinical psychology is a branch of psychology that helps patients overcome mental, emotional and behavioral disorders. Clinical psychologists study the reasons why people make certain decisions and why they act in certain ways. They...
Strange Facts

Strange Facts – The Average Person Eats 6 Lbs of Dirt in Their Lifetime

You won’t be hard pressed to find different shows on the Discovery Channel or Food Network documenting some of the weird things people eat. Insects, rodents, you name it, someone’s eaten it. What if...

Mental Health Awareness Day

See the person not the illness, take action, take the pledge and be stigma free. Don't be afraid to talk about mental health today by sharing our awareness infographic below!
Art Therapist

How to Become an Art Therapist

An art therapist uses art to help patients discover truths about themselves and the world. The connection between art and wellness has long been understood by therapists in all disciplines. The self-expression and satisfaction that...