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Alliance and Cohesion Predicting Outcome in Group Psychotherapy: A Structural Equation Model Meta-Analysis
ABSTRACT Within group psychotherapy, previous meta-analyses have shown that the client-therapist relationship (alliance) and group relationships (cohesion) both predict client improvement. Accounting for the inherent connection between alliance and cohesion, we meta-analyzed studies (k = 14) that individually measured alliance, cohesion, and an outcome among group therapy participants.
Intelligence for Dummies: A primer
Jacob Bingham · Follow 6 min read · -- Scientists and philosophers have waxed long about intelligence since the beginning of time. Or at least since humans have been smart enough to write things down. Plato considered intuitive reasoning to be the pinnacle of human intelligence (Castan et al., 2021). Thomas Aquinas believed intellect to be the immaterial power of the human soul (Pasnau, 1998).
Money Matters: Understanding insurance: How to choose the right insurance for you
Insurance is crucial for managing financial risks and protecting yourself in the case of unexpected events. There are numerous types of insurance — from health and auto insurance to life and property coverage — with each designed to meet specific needs. Given the myriad available policy and coverage options, selecting the right insurance can be an overwhelming task.
Money Matters: Savings vs. investments: Finding the right balance for your financial goals
Fortunately, you have found yourself in a position to tuck some money away. But do you put it into your savings account in the case of rainy financial weather, or do you invest it with the hopes that it will grow? Both strategies play crucial roles in building wealth and securing one’s financial goals. Finding the right balance between savings and investments is essential to achieving your long-term financial goals.
Health & Wellness: Medication management for seniors - understanding the risks and benefits
People march on in age, and their progression in years is accompanied by a slow deterioration in their physical health. To mollify the aches and pains associated with chronic medical conditions, modern medicine has developed endless medications — albeit each with its own risks and benefits. As the elderly population continues to grow, medication management for seniors has become an increasingly important topic in healthcare.
Money Matters: The rise of digital currencies and understanding cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrency has emerged as a revolutionary form of digital currency, attracting significant attention and investment worldwide. Its rapid rise has transformed the financial landscape, challenging traditional banking systems and offering new opportunities for individuals and businesses alike. This article explores the fundamentals of cryptocurrency, its underlying technology and its implications for the future of finance.
Money Matters: Financial planning for freelancers and self-employed professionals: Managing variable income
Freelancing and self-employment offer professionals a unique level of freedom and flexibility. Unfortunately, self-employment also presents challenges, such as variable income. Unlike traditional employees who receive a fixed paycheck, freelancers and self-employed professionals often face irregular cash flows that can make financial planning more complex.
Health & Wellness: How to cultivate a healthy relationship with technology
We live in an era characterized by unprecedented connection, largely due to the rapid proliferation and progression of technology. From smartphones to social media platforms — and countless other digital tools and devices — technology has established itself as an integral part of our daily lives.
Money Matters: 6 tips for mastering time management
Effective time management is a crucial skill in today’s fast-paced world. Individuals can improve productivity, reduce stress levels and better accomplish goals by implementing wise time-management techniques. Many people, however, struggle to manage their time effectively. According to one study, only 20% of people feel they consistently have their workload under control. Furthermore, only 18% of people in the study indicated that they have a time-management system in place.
Money Matters: How psychology affects how you save
Saving money is an essential financial skill that can lead to a secure and stable future. However, many individuals struggle with saving consistently, despite having the best intentions. In fact, show that the savings rate in the United States is currently far below average. Why do so many people struggle to put money in the bank despite their intentions to save more? An often overlooked facet of financial literacy is an understanding of how psychology can impact habits around saving and spending.
Health & Wellness: How to recover from a sports-related injury: A comprehensive guide
Sustaining an injury can be a physically and emotionally challenging experience. Injured individuals often have to deal with decreased range of motion, pain and a large medical bill. More unfortunate still, a large proportion of athletes — from adolescents to professionals — will experience a sports-related injury at some point. However, a sports-related injury does not have to be the end of your athletic career.
Money Matters: Use the best apps to stretch your budget and reach your savings goals
Today’s economic landscape presents modern-day workers with a unique and paradoxical situation. Across the globe, people are working fewer hours than ever, all while taking home substantially more cash. Per-capita GDP has increased dramatically over the past 50 years worldwide, with most countries experiencing growth of more than 100% after accounting for inflation. However, despite the drastic increases in income, many people are struggling to save.
Health & Wellness: How to keep your mind sharp as you age
Our cognitive abilities continually shift throughout our lifespans. We progress rapidly during the first few years of life, acquiring skills like language and object permanence. From childhood to adolescence, we continue to develop quickly and learn new information and skills with ease. Our cognitive abilities remain sharp from early adulthood throughout our 20s and only begin to decline in our 30s. From our 30s on, we battle the creep of cognitive decline.
Money Matters: How to remain productive when working remotely - evidence-based strategies for success
The rise of remote and hybrid jobs has revolutionized the work environment, providing people with unprecedented flexibility and autonomy. However, the increase in work-from-home (WFH) arrangements also presents unique challenges, such as maintaining productivity. Fortunately, many evidence-based strategies have proven effective at helping people remain productive, regardless of their work circumstances.
Health & Wellness: How to cultivate healthy relationships and strong social connections
In today’s fast-paced and interconnected world, cultivating healthy relationships and strong social connections is more important than ever. Despite an endless proliferation of social media apps designed with social connection in mind, more and more people are reporting a lack of strong social connections and increased feelings of loneliness. Human beings are inherently social creatures, and the quality of our relationships has a profound impact on our overall well-being and happiness.
Health and Wellness: The optimal morning routine, backed by science
Everyone knows how important it is to start your day off strong and to “wake up on the right side of the bed.” A morning routine sets the tone for the entire day, impacting productivity, mood and overall well-being. In recent years, scientific research has shed light on strategies for optimizing your morning routine, providing valuable insights on how to kick-start your day for maximum efficiency.
Money Matters: How the experts build wealth
If you took a poll asking people how much money they would like to have, the most likely answer would be “more.” Despite being a goal shared by so many individuals, only a small portion of people achieve the financial success of which they dream. Achieving financial success requires a combination of knowledge, strategy and discipline. And while there is no one-size-fits-all approach to accumulating wealth, we can learn some general principles from experts in the field.
Health & Wellness: What is psychotherapy and how does it work?
Note: This article is for informational purposes only and should not replace professional advice. If you or someone you know is in need of mental health support, please seek the assistance of a qualified mental health professional. The modern world inundates us with seemingly endless pressures and stressors. These difficulties often compound, manifesting in a number of diverse and pernicious psychological struggles. Indeed, of adults in the United States are currently living with a mental illness.
Health & Wellness: Mental health and aging: Coping with depression, anxiety, cognitive decline and loneliness
As individuals age, they face unique challenges that can impact their mental well-being. Depression, anxiety and cognitive decline are common mental health concerns among the elderly population. Fortunately, there are plenty of coping strategies and interventions that older adults can employ to help promote mental health in older adults. Mental health conditions and aging Depression affects a significant number of older adults and can have a profound impact on their quality of life.
Health & Wellness: Why you should keep plants in your home
Sometimes, it can feel like an impossible task to keep the plants in your home alive. It seems inevitable that the roses in your vase and the pothos on your windowsill will eventually wilt and die. But however difficult it may feel, developing a green thumb will pay dividends toward your future health. Plants are more than just decorations for your home and offer numerous benefits to both your physical and mental health.
Health and Wellness: Stimulating research: Is caffeine a friend or foe?
America runs on caffeine. There is a Starbucks on every street corner, and every gas station in the U.S. comes stocked with seemingly infinite ways to get caffeinated. Caffeine is the ambrosia that makes today’s hustle culture possible, making it inconceivable to imagine our world without it. But is caffeine really a miracle drug that helps Americans conquer sleep, or is it a crutch that robs people of a hard-earned rest?
Money Matters: How to plan ahead for unexpected home repairs
Homeownership comes with many responsibilities, and one of the most important is maintaining the condition of your home. It takes significant time and effort to purchase a home, but the homeowning adventure only truly begins when you sign the dotted line; you then enter into the tedious and sometimes painful world of house upkeep. And while regular maintenance can help prevent many problems, unexpected repairs are an inevitable part of homeownership.
Health & Wellness: Psychology-based tips to stick to your New Year’s resolutions
Everybody knows the cycle of New Year’s resolutions. You begin the year motivated and excited. Ready to change your life for the better, you create a laundry list of all the habits you are going to build this year. You commit to start exercising again, quit drinking so much soda and read more books. The first few weeks of the year begin with herculean effort and monk-like vigilance as you faithfully carry out your resolutions.
Health and Wellness: Tune into the psychological benefits of listening to music
Very few people need additional incentives to listen to music. Music has been an integral part of society for thousands of years and continues to exert a massive influence on our modern cultures. Simply put, most people listen to music because they enjoy it. Fortunately, this popular pastime also offers many psychological benefits, including better cognitive performance, decreased stress and anxiety, and improved mood.
Health and Wellness: What is meditation, and how can you harness it to live your best life?
Like so many other pop culture buzzwords, the terms meditation and mindfulness feel like they have lost all meaning. Once favored primarily by spiritual practitioners, meditation has been co-opted by tech CEOs and productivity gurus. It’s hard to not be wary of any trend hyped up by the productivity world. But what if meditation really does have the power to change your life dramatically?
Health and Wellness: 9 ways to optimize your sleep
Sleep is a vital aspect of our lives. If we didn’t learn that from our parents growing up, then we surely learned it firsthand when we did not get enough of it as adults. But if sleep is so important, why does it seem like people are never sleeping as well or as much as they would like to? It may be the bustle of modern life, the city lights that never go out, our individual habits, or a host of other factors. It seems like the deck is stacked against us getting enough sleep.
Health & Wellness: 5 effective strategies for memory improvement
Besides the current moment, all we have is our memory. Sadly, many of us feel as if our memories never work as well as they should. To be human is to be constantly forgetting, whether that be memories of fun trips, beautiful sunsets, terrible days or the info we need to remember for our next exam. While endowing everyone with a photographic memory is unfortunately beyond the current scope of science, there are a number of great research-backed strategies to improve memory.
Gumbo is Goode: Lakota West runs over West Clermont
WEST CHESTER — Playing with a packed grandstand at home for the first time in two years, the Lakota West Firebirds rebounded from a season-opening loss with three first quarter touchdowns en route to a 45-7victory over the West Clermont Wolves. Cameron Goode scored on three first half touchdowns of 24, 20 and 7 yards to lead the Firebirds — adding another 45 yards receiving. “It really came out of the offensive line settling the ends,” Goode said.
Lakota East falls to Moeller in season opener
LIBERTY TWP. — The Lakota East High School football team dropped its season opener to the Moeller Crusaders 42-27 in front of a packed house at Lakota East. The Thunderhawks stopped Moeller on its opening drive, marched down the field in three plays and within three minutes held a 7-0 lead with Charlie Kenrich’s 1-yard touchdown plunge. Moeller answered with an 8 play 50-yard drive, including a fourth and 7 conversion that led to a 1-yard Noah Giesbrecht touchdown run.
Johnson lights it up for 34 in Lakota East’s win over Princeton
Lakota East’s Nate Johnson scored 34 points against Princeton on Friday. AJ FULLAM/6SPhoto.com LIBERTY TWP. — “I just felt good at the beginning, and I just kept going,” Lakota East junior Nate Johnson said. A career-high 34 points confirmed Johnson’s assumption, and the Thunderhawks rolled in their Greater Miami Conference opener with a 59-49 victory over the visiting Princeton Vikings on Friday.
Fairfield’s undefeated season halted in 16-10 overtime loss to Colerain
FAIRFIELD — “We’re just celebrating now,” Colerain coach Shawn Cutright said after his Cardinals defeated the previously unbeaten Fairfield Indians 16-10 for their 20th-straight Greater Miami Conference championship. “It’s about all the guys that played here before us,” Cutright added. “I just couldn’t be more proud of them. So happy. That’s a great team over there. Fairfield is a great team, great athletes and they fought.
Butler County High School Sports Report
ROSS TWP. — Ross High football coach Kenyon Commins ended his post game remarks to his players on Friday with this: “You won 41-18 and you’re upset about how you played, and I like that.” The Rams dispatched a plucky Northwest Knights team that hung around in a sloppy rain soaked game and maintained their tie atop the Southwest Ohio Conference standings with Harrison.
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