Without trying to be pointlessly argumentative, I was referring to your
representation of Burns. Cognitive-behavioral therapy is one of our best
established as effective tools to treat depression. I feel describing it in
terms of depression as a choice, akin to a simple 'buck up' was the
Paul, if you don't know of or haven't read Burns, why do you feel
qualified to speak about the effectiveness of his strategies? In no way
does he encourage people in a state of depression to buck up. The
strategies he does use, based on extensive empirical research, is to help
people understand
in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Cc: Michael Palij
Subject: [tips] If You Had Lousy Grades When You Were 10 Years Old, You're
Gonna Get Alzheimer's!
Don't take my word for it, see this news article on the presentations at the
Alzheimer's Association International Conference:
http
Don't take my word for it, see this news article on the presentations
at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11751788/School-grades-aged-10-predict-risk-of-dementia.html
The Telegraph's (UK) science editor writes:
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Though I'm not speaking for Joan, I believe she was referring to cognitive
techniques such as reframing. David Burns has been around a long time and has
written some very good books. I wouldn't consider his work positivity movement
pablum.
Carol
On Jul 20, 2015, at 8:01 PM, Paul C
The correlation--remember CORRELATION--between performance in academia at
the age of 10 likely strongly influenced by the a child's sense of self
given to them by their teachers and school, including their ability to
attend college, etc. The other correlation between sitting around and
I surely hope you are joking about something as serious as depression. Sounds
like a bunch of positivity movement pablum to me.
Paul
On Jul 20, 2015, at 4:41 PM, Joan Warmbold jwarm...@oakton.edu wrote:
as we age we do have
control over, whether we are depressed or not. In fact, if one
On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 14:29:04 -0700, Jim Clark wrote:
Hi
Given IQ correlates with school performance, and early IQ is
known to correlate with dementia, hardly seems like a new finding?
http://www.apa.org/monitor/feb01/dementia.aspx
Jim, given that the link you provide is to an article
“We have a choice whether to opt for depression or not” sounds precisely like
positivity pablum, blaming the victim of disease, that all the person needs to
do is ‘buck up’.
I don’t know Burns, but I do know that acting like depression is an attitude
problem is BS.
I am going to assume that
