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Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement This open access book demonstrates the first historical overview of the autism rights branch of the neurodiversity movement, describing the activities and rationales of key leaders in their own words ...

Here’s a free book that could be helpful to therapists. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

I really recommend checking out the work of Peter Levine (the father of “Somatic Experiencing”) when it comes to stress management. His hypothesis is that unlike in the natural world, under capitalism the stress never goes “away,” so the nervous system cannot regulate/return to homeostasis.

Coping With Emotional Distress By Using the Somatic Experiencing Technique of Pendulation to Calm Yourself

Coping With Trauma By Using the Somatic Experiencing Technique of Pendulation to Calm Yourself buff.ly/3P6n6l8

#Coping #Trauma #SomaticExperiencing #Therapy #Mentalhealth #Psychotherapy #MindBodyConnection #NYC #Pendulation #TherapistSky

Pause and notice: the weight of your body resting, the temperature of the air on your skin, and the sounds around you. How does your body respond when you simply observe without judgment?

#somaticexperiencing #mentalhealth #joy #curiosity

George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) explores the thesis that poor people would support progressive policies except that they don’t like progressive advocates. I am not sure he was right or that the same diagnosis applies today, but it’s worth considering. Commentary: peterlevine.ws?p=33262

Self‐Deception in Human–AI Emotional Relations Imagine a man chatting with his AI girlfriend app. He looks at his smartphone and says, ‘Finally, I'm being understood’. Is he deceiving himself? Is there anything morally wrong with it? The human te...

#NewArticle #OpenAccess Self‐Deception in Human–AI Emotional Relations | Emilia Kaczmarek doi.org/10.1111/japp... #philsky #philosophy #appliedphil

The person behind the therapist: a recall study on significant events that contribute to therapists' personal and professional development - PubMed This study explores the interconnexion between personal and professional development in therapist growth. This research examines a self-integrated perspective on training, by looking at the equal impo...

The #person behind the #therapist: a recall study on significant events that contribute to therapists' personal and professional development | pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39221908/
#PsychSciSky #medsky #openaccess 🧪👨‍🎓👩‍🔬🤯

Facilitative interpersonal skills in benign versus challenging therapy situations in trainee therapists: a pilot study - PubMed Therapists' responses to challenging therapy situations on the Facilitative Interpersonal Skills (FIS) performance task are a significant predictor of therapists' differences in treatment outcomes. Th...

Facilitative #interpersonal #skills in benign vs. challenging #therapy situations in trainee #therapists: a pilot study | pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39221904 | #PsychSciSky #psychology #openaccess #AcademicSky 🧪🤯👨‍⚕️

Chronic suicidal ideations: a risk or a protection - PubMed Chronic suicidal ideations can be consistently present as part of the individual's sense of identity and self-regulation or as a reoccurring pattern to control intense feelings and communicate and rel...

Chronic #suicidal #ideations: a risk or a protection | pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38904642 | #PsychSciSky #psychology #openaccess 🧪👩‍🔬🤯

Literacy skills seem to fuel literacy enjoyment, rather than vice versa How much children enjoy reading and writing and how good they are at it correlates, but why? We investigated this in 3690 twins aged 12. Literacy skills seemed to impact literacy enjoyment, but not t...

#openaccess

Literacy skills seem to fuel literacy enjoyment, rather than vice versa

#scienceofreading #structuredliteracy #righttoread #OntEd #CdnEd #ElemEd #literacyisequity #untilallcanread

doi.org/10.1111/desc...

Nurturance, Eroticism, and Relationship Satisfaction Among People in Monogamous and Consensually Non-Monogamous Relationships Satisfying romantic relationships often feature high levels of nurturance and eroticism. Consensually non-monogamous (CNM) individuals may experience these with additional partners, potentially red...

Check out our NEW✨ study w/ @justinmogilski.bsky.social & Shari Blumenstock, available #OpenAccess! We investigated how nurturance and eroticism are associated with relationship satisfaction in monogamous vs. #CNM individuals from multiple countries. The results are pretty intriguing!

www.mental-wellness-journal.net/mw/article/v... | #MedSky 🧪 #openaccess #PsychSciSky #psychology

The Welfare Workforce Cambridge Core - Comparative Politics - The Welfare Workforce

"A beautifully written and insightful take on the evolution of mental healthcare in advanced democracies, and one that opens a new lens on one of the most central, and largely unexamined, parts of the modern state."

The Welfare Workforce by Isabel M. Perera

Out now in #OpenAccess cup.org/3DQJizT

Autism: Myth Busting

Amy Pearson dismantles 5 myths about autistic people
bit.ly/autism-myth-...
1. Autistic people lack empathy
2. Autism is a 'boy thing'
3. People can grow out of being autistic
4. Everyone is a little bit autistic
5. The 'spectrum' is linear.

#ACAMHlearn