#APA Speaking of Psychology

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American Psychological Association Affirms Evidence-Based Care for Transgender, Nonbinary, and Gender Diverse Adults and Children

The American Psychological Association (APA), the leading scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States, has adopted what it calls a “groundbreaking” policy in support of evidence-based care for transgender, nonbinary, and gender diverse children, adolescents, and adults.

The policy (PDF) was approved by APA’s governing Council of Representatives at its meeting on February 24, with a vote of 153-9 with one abstention. The resolution directly counters the claim that there is no scientific consensus on gender-affirming care.

APA President Cynthia de las Fuentes, speaking of the new policy resolution, states, “It sends a clear message that state bans on gender-affirming care disregard the comprehensive body of medical and psychological research supporting the positive impact of such treatments in alleviating psychological distress and improving overall well-being for transgender, gender diverse and nonbinary individuals throughout their lives.”

The policy includes several findings and resolutions, such as:

Gender affirming medical care is medically necessary - “the APA underscores the necessity for access to comprehensive, gender-affirming healthcare for transgender, gender-diverse, and nonbinary children, adolescents, and adults”

The organization opposes bans on gender affirming care - “the APA opposes state bans on gender-affirming care, which are contrary to the principles of evidence-based healthcare, human rights, and social justice, and which should be reconsidered in favor of policies that prioritize the well-being and autonomy of transgender, gender-diverse, and nonbinary individuals”

Being trans is not “caused” by autism or post-traumatic stress - “legislative efforts to restrict access to care have involved the dissemination of misleading and unfounded narratives (e.g., mischaracterizing gender dysphoria as a manifestation of traumatic stress or neurodivergence, and equating affirming care for transgender, gender-diverse, and nonbinary youth with child abuse), creating a distorted perception of the psychological and medical support necessary for these youth and creating a hostile environment that adversely affects their mental health and wellbeing.”

False information on trans care needs to be combatted - “APA supports efforts to address and rectify the dissemination of false information to ensure the well-being and dignity of transgender, gender-diverse, and nonbinary individuals”

Discrimination, non-affirmation, and rejection risks suicide - “gender-based bias and mistreatment (e.g., discrimination, violence, non-affirmation, or rejection in response to gender diversity) pose significant harm, including risk of suicide, to the well-being of children, adolescents, adults, and families.”

The APA is only one of many professional medical, legal, and child service organizations that have issued formal statements in support of LGBTQ families and individuals based on scientific evidence. 

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I spoke about being detrans on tiktok and it went approximately like this.

Video: here are things I experienced socially and psychologically as a direct consequence of my detransition.

Commenter: you can talk about your issues, but you shouldn't like comments saying being trans is a mental disorder.

Me: one needs a F64.0 to receive transition-related treatment.

Commenter: that's transmedicalism.

Me: no, like, legally. Because you have to be diagnosed with something to have it treated.

Commenter: APA no longer considers being transgender a mental illness.

I felt kind of like speaking with a wall? I don't know, it's just, am I missing something or were they legitimately missing my point?

Anyways being trans is a mental illness, I'll be very persistent in defending that claim, there's a reason my old username is dysphoriaenthusiast.

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Komunikasi Sains

Ini adalah lanjutan (bagian ke-3) dari serial pemikiran yang ku-plot/rencanakan buat kutulis hasil dari 2 tweet-ku (YANG TIDAK BERHUBUNGAN SAMA SEKALI) yang viral.

Untuk refreshing, sekalian kalau teman-teman kelewatan, 2 postingan sebelumnya adalah:

Tentang belajar dan teaching https://www.tumblr.com/asrisgratitudejournal/740330494668029952/halo-teman-teman-tumblr-kayanya-tinggal-sisa-di?source=share – dan very interestingly, dari sini ku dapat respon dan rikues untuk bikin postingan on “how to google” dari @purplishgraypeony ! – nanti yah, ini ku-pikirin dulu mau mulai dari mana ngejelasinnya, but thank you very much for the questions HUHU (tujuan tumblr ini padahal kalau dilihat dari namanya adalah untuk ku nyampah dan journaling ngelist what I am mostly grateful for, tapi malah udah lama banget nggak bikin gratitude list??? Malah jadi opinionated gini postingannya huff. Tapi gapapa, Alhamdulillah dibaca (emoji nangis), makasih everyone for being here and reading my rubbish)

Tentang facets and dimensions https://www.tumblr.com/asrisgratitudejournal/740598756281597953/dimensions?source=share

Nah yang ketiga ini, spesifik sekali ku mau komplain tentang komunikasi sains, terutama di Indonesia.

Karena kalau masih ingat (atau baca dari tulisan di atas), hasil obrolan antara ku dan salah satu temanku adalah: kami sepakat bahwa I AM SHIT in explaining stuff in social media, especially geology-related things, to wider audience, to laypeople. Kalau di kelas dan ngejelasin ke mahasiswa s1 geologi InsyaALLAH masih ok lah ya (I got a lot of comments that I speak REALLY fast in class, though. But in my defense, that’s me being excited). Nah, dari situ ku jadi bertanya-tanya kan… “why am I shit in communicating science to people?”. Ternyata jawabannya adalah: because I was not educated in that, Duh.

Beneran sesederhana: aku gak tahu (in theory) basic communication to public itu gimana caranya. Ditambah lagi, ku gak cuma menyampaikan pesan “hari ini hari Senin loh” ke warga, tapi SAINS: “isotope, umur air tanah, siklus iklim” yang nggak dibahas di kehidupan sehari-hari dan kalau orang nggak pernah baca/dengar istilah ini sebelumnya, mereka bakal “???” (literally).

Dari situ lah muncul kesimpulan juga: “OH ya memang bukan pekerjaanku untuk cerita ke orang-orang, telling science to people. I’m not equipped with any skill to do that. Ku bahkan gapernah formally belajar psychology of people.” Aku belajar dikit-dikit sih psikologi STUDENT karena sebagai dosen juga mau nggak mau aku harus tahu aku berhadapan dengan siapa, tapi power-relation yang bermain di kelas universitas antara dosen dan mahasiswa sangat berbeda sekali dengan forum di sosial media (di mana orang gak tahu aku ini siapa, aku gak tahu mereka siapa, tujuan dari interaksi kita juga gak jelas apa).

Kalau di dunia barat, antara aku (saintis) dan publik, akan ada middleman-nya lagi, yaitu: science communicator. Orang inilah yang kerjaan utamanya men-dilute, menurunkan bahasa di konten sains yang level kesulitannya setinggi-tinggi menara Eiffel itu menjadi bahasa yang lebih familiar di skena warga kebanyakan. Sehingga konten sainsnya jadi lebih mudah dipahami. Mereka jauh lebih trained di linguistics, di psikologi publik, dan di MENULIS (Part of the reason why I suck at doing science communication in social media is also because I suck at writing). Biasanya, orang-orang science comm yang udah-udah ini datangnya dari jurnalism, walaupun ada juga yang emang saintis tapi jadi science communicator, contohnya kaya Carl Sagan dan Neil deGrasse Tyson.

My two fav pop-science writers yang backgroundnya bukan saintis itu ada Elizabeth Kolbert dan Bill Bryson. Menurutku, mereka berhasil men-translate science (yang a bit dull, very factual) menjadi sesuatu yang exciting, menarik buat dibaca. Karena, terutama buat Bryson, he put A LOT OF jokes in his writing.

Science communicator ini kalau di dunia barat akan dipekerjakan oleh

Uni, jelas, karena uni butuh orang yang bisa bikin artikel tentang publikasi apa yang baru keluar dari uni itu. Kalau bisa se-bombastis mungkin artikelnya supaya orang jadi aware dan mungkin parents juga jadi makin tertarik buat nyekolahin anaknya di situ, investor juga makin tertarik buat bikin kerja sama riset dengan uni itu, dan government juga bisa ngasih uang lebih ke uni itu karena udah nunjukkin kerja yang bagus.

Research institute, baik private atau government-affiliated: contohnya NASA kalau di US. Kebanyakan dengan tujuan yang sama seperti uni: mencari uang, dan juga semacam ngasih “LPJ (Laporang Pertanggung Jawaban)” ke warga nunjukkin “nih tax lo kita gunakan dengan baik loh”

Kadang industri juga butuh, terutama yang fokusnya di R&D. Kalau Aramco nemuin cadangan minyak/gas baru, Tesla sekarang ganti baterai, Space-X mau nerbangin roket baru. Mostly kerjaannya PR sih itu, tapi akan useful sekali kalau PR-nya juga bisa mengomunikasikan sainsnya dengan baik ke publik.

Nulis buku sendiri atau bikin program podcast/tvshow sciencepop (atau involved in a team yang kerjaannya producing science content). Biasanya nanti fundingnya cari dari mainstream media outlets semacam National Geographic, New York Times, Netflix, BBC. Akan harus pitching dulu segala macem sih, tapi pasti akan tetap butuh orang science comm di situ, terutama buat script writingnya dsb.

Kalau mau cek lebih banyak lagi bisa digoogling sendiri, contoh ini aku masukkin “science communication uk” di Linkedin:

Terus kalau googling course juga ada beberapa MSc Science Comm yang bisa dicari di UK:

Imperial https://www.imperial.ac.uk/study/courses/postgraduate-taught/science-communication/

UCL https://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/graduate/taught-degrees/science-communication-msc

Sheffield https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/courses/2024/science-communication-msc

Cambridge (tapi somehow dia bilang dicancel sih yang ini) https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/course/postgraduate-diploma-science-communication-0

Dan entah kenapa juga pas aku googling “science communication study” gaada uni US yang keluar? Apa karena geographical location-ku di UK ya? Entahlah. Tapi barusan googling dan nemu artikel ini (basically dia cerita what’s good a MSc in ScienceComm is):

Jadi, tujuan postingan ini apa Non??

Gaada. Cuma mau bilang aja seperti yang sudah kutulis di note sebelumnya: bahwa there is a crucial need for science communicator/science journalist yang bisa bridging antara scientist yang komunikasinya jongkok ini dengan khalayak banyak (terutama netizen). Can’t academics be their very own communicators? Bisa aja, ada success story-nya, tapi tidak mainstream. Makanya juga keberadaan podcast-podcast kaya Endgame-nya Pak Gita atau pop-science books itu sangat helpful untuk membuat netizen familiar dengan sains/apapun yang rakyat kebanyakan nggak familiar with.

Ku di catetan nulis: “compare Clive O. dengan Elizabeth K. for example”. Tapi jujur malas banget HUHU. Tapi mungkin kumasukkin reference for example aja yah. Selebihnya kalian rasakan sendiri bedanya. Jadi ku kemarin habis nyelesai-in The Sixth Extinction-nya Elizabeth Kolbert and it WAS FANTASTIC (tapi tentu saja aku biased karena aku educated in geology). Kolbert ini journalistnya The New Yorker, this is her latest piece of writing yang keluar HARI INI (29 Januari 2024) on wildfires on earth: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/05/the-perverse-policies-that-fuel-wildfires (harusnya sih masih pada bisa free article).

Versus

Ku lagi baca Clive Oppenheimer’s Mountains of Fire (lagi-lagi biased karena science-pop pilihanku akan masih tetap berhubungan dengan geology). Oppenheimer ini saintis totok, volcanologist-nya Cambridge, temannya supervisor-ku. Ku pertama kali ngeliat dia di Into the Inferno di Netflix. And if I tell you how hard it is reading his book?? Even for people trained in geology???

Ku mencoba mencari tulisan populer dia tapi ternyata tidak ada, jadi bisa lihat preview buku dia di googlebooks aja yah.

Dari dua example di atas semoga nangkap maksud aku. Kelihatan mana yang terbiasa nulis populer vs nulis journal paper. Ku gabilang yang satu lebih baik dari yang lain ya tapi btw.

Terusss dari menulis postingan ini ku menemukan banyak sekali new information and new cool website! (The beauty of doing “research” in writing a post). Ku menemukan website https://sciencebites.org/ yang mana tujuannya adalah menulis kembali (rewrite) academic paper in a more “pop” way. Ku tadi nemu ini gara-gara kebawa ke https://www.scicommbites.org/ , mereka juga punya versi geosciencesnya: https://geobites.org/ -- ku cukup yakin keilmuan kalian-pun akan ada di situ!

Dah deh itu dulu aja. Habis ini mau bikin postingan gratitude list dulu sepertinya. Setelah sekian lama. Byea.

Ps. Kontemplasi-ku sebelum tidur semalam ternyata banyak yang nge-like HUHU. Baru aja si akun X JATAM (Jaringan Advokasi Tambang) https://twitter.com/jatamnas ngepost orang-orang tambang yang afiliasi ke 01. Yang 02 udah dibahas abis-abisan kemarin kayanya. Tapi 03 juga ada. Intinya udah se-kotor se…intricate itu ke-kompleks-an conflict of interest antara pembuat peraturan dan pengusaha kita… Yasudah… Mau gimana lagi…

Flat 39, 29/01/2024 19:11

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ETHICAL ISSUE #4 Withholding Information

DEMARIO FINDLEY SHARMAINE TAPPER 20193284

CRIMINAL JUSTICE WITHHOLDING INFORMATION

NOTHERN CARIBBEAN UNIVERSITY

What is withholding Information?

To withhold something means to refuse to offer it or to hold it back: information or support.

Example : The prosecution was charged with hiding important information from the defense during the trial.

Example: The identity of the deceased woman is being withheld by the police until her family has been notified.

What is communication ?

The imparting or exchanging of information by speaking, writing, or using some other medium.

What is Withholding Information in Communication?

You withhold something if you keep it to yourself and don't disclose it. You have the option of withholding things like knowledge, emotion, or permission. Withholding information from your folks or the police could land you in trouble. To withhold means to take money out of a payment and keep it back.

Senders may feel pressured to omit information on purpose, such as when giving incomplete information when making a proposal or refusing to accept responsibility for errors. Due to the widespread use of social media, there is now more focus on the issue of transparency, which in this context refers to being open and allowing all discussion participants to have access to the data they require to properly process the messages they are getting.

Senders may feel pressured to omit information on purpose, such as when giving incomplete information when making a proposal or refusing to accept responsibility for errors. Due to the widespread use of social media, there is now more focus on the issue of transparency, which in this context refers to being open and allowing all discussion participants to have access to the data they require to properly process the messages they are getting.

In some studies, participants are told things that aren't real in order to get a true response from them. Deception studies offer subjects a different justification for the study's goal or mislead them regarding the study's nature. While some studies may not intentionally mislead participants, they may withhold some information, such as the criteria used to pick participants. The notion that participants should be informed about a study in order to make the best choice regarding whether they should participate conflicts with not giving them accurate information.

Therefore, additional precautions must be taken in order to conduct a study with deceptive elements. These precautions include getting the proper consent before the study and having a debriefing session with a post-debrief consent form so that the participant can give their consent once they understand the study's true purpose.

Knowledge concealing, which can occur in a variety of ways, is the act of purposefully withholding or omitting information from one another. We might present as being ignorant, give people who ask us incorrect information, make empty commitments to share information when we never will, or come up with justifications for not doing so when we are actually able to.

Reference

American Psychological Association. (1963). Ethical standards of psychologists. American Psychologist, 18, 56-60.

American Psychological Association. (1968). Ethical standards of psychologists. American Psychologist, 23, 357-361.

American Psychological Association. (1977, March). Ethical standards of psychologists. APA Monitor, 22-23.

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What Is Authoritative Parenting? Experts Explain the Solid Approach

There are plenty of parenting styles out there, and the right one for you ultimately depends on your personal preferences and your family. But there's one style that's consistently praised for its approachability and the behaviors it helps instill: authoritative parenting. What is authoritative parenting, exactly? At its core, authoritative parenting involves listening to kids while still requiring that they follow rules set by their parents. The concept of authoritative parenting has been around for decades, and even the American Psychological Association (APA) gives it props, noting that "children raised with this style tend to be friendly, energetic, cheerful, self-reliant, self-controlled, curious, cooperative and achievement-oriented." So, what does authoritative parenting involve and are there any drawbacks to the approach? Below, experts break it down. --- Experts Featured in This Article Robert Keder, MD, is a pediatrician who specializes in developmental behavior at Connecticut Children's Medical Center. Mayra Mendez, PhD, LMFT, is a licensed psychotherapist at Providence Saint John's Child and Family Development Center in Santa Monica, CA. --- What Is Authoritative Parenting? Authoritative parenting is a mix of gentleness and firmness, with parents being nurturing, responsive, and supportive, but with clear limits and rules set for kids, the APA explains. (This is quite a contrast from, say, permissive parenting.) "Authoritative parenting is where there is a high concern for the child, but the parent is trying to direct control," says pediatrician Robert Keder, MD. With authoritative parenting, parents try to shape a child's behavior by thoroughly explaining and discussing rules and boundaries in place, says psychotherapist Mayra Mendez, PhD, LMFT. "It allows for teaching, education, implementation of rules, and understanding why rules exist and why we have to be governed by them," she explains. "These parents teach the guidelines of the world to the child, but also listen to the child." Dr. Mendez says authoritative parenting hinges on communication, without parents losing their sense of authority. "There can be a lot of respect rendered to the child as well, especially as they get older," she says. Authoritative Parenting Examples Dr. Keder refers to authoritative parenting as the "Danny Tanner style of parenting," referencing the "Full House" patriarch. Authoritative parents will help kids who are facing a challenge by saying something like, "I know this is hard and you can do better. Let me give you a hug and a kiss, and let's work on this," he says. "Authoritative parents hold children to high expectations, but are reasonable about it," Dr. Keder says. "They're not giving demands that are way outside the child's skill set." Authoritative parents will also allow their kids some freedoms, like spending the night at a friend's house, but reiterate the rules in advance and make it clear that the child is expected to behave a certain way, Dr. Keder adds. "It's the sweet spot of where you're negotiating your needs and the child's needs to help them prepare for things," Dr. Keder says. This parenting style isn't free-range, where kids have a lot of freedom, or authoritarian, where parents are rigid and lay down tough rules - it's somewhere in the middle. Authoritative Parenting Pros and Cons Authoritative parenting has a lot of positive features, Dr. Mendez says. "Parents can demonstrate a sense of flexibility and, with that comes a sense of mutual respect," she says, adding that the parenting style conveys,"This is a young person growing up who still needs guidance, but we respect each other." Authoritative parenting also encourages parents to speak on a child's level when discussing important topics, so that they understand the rationale behind decisions, Dr. Mendez says. This style also makes expectations clear to children. "Rules are not random," she says.… https://www.popsugar.com/family/authoritative-parenting-49339334?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr

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James Donaldson on Mental Health - 10 Effective Ways to Manage Anxiety and Stress

10 Effective Ways to Manage Anxiety and Stress In today's fast-paced world, anxiety and stress have become common issues that many people face. According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA), anxiety disorders affect 40 million adults in the United States alone. While it's normal to experience some stress and anxiety, chronic anxiety can impact your mental and physical health. Fortunately, there are several effective ways to manage anxiety and stress that can help you lead a more balanced life. 1. Practice Mindfulness Meditation Mindfulness meditation has been shown to reduce anxiety and stress by helping you stay focused on the present moment. A study published in the Journal of Clinical Psychology found that mindfulness-based therapies significantly reduce anxiety symptoms. To get started, find a quiet place, sit comfortably, and focus on your breath. Allow your thoughts to come and go without judgment. 2. Exercise Regularly Physical activity is a powerful stress reliever. Exercise increases the production of endorphins, which are natural mood lifters. The American Psychological Association (APA) suggests that exercise can improve mental health by reducing anxiety, depression, and negative mood. Aim for at least 30 minutes of moderate exercise, such as walking, jogging, or cycling, most days of the week. 3. Maintain a Healthy Diet Your diet plays a significant role in your mental health. Consuming a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, lean proteins, and whole grains can help stabilize your mood and energy levels. Avoid excessive caffeine and sugar, which can increase anxiety. Omega-3 fatty acids, found in fish and flaxseeds, are particularly beneficial for brain health. 4. Get Enough Sleep Poor sleep can exacerbate anxiety and stress. The National Sleep Foundation recommends 7-9 hours of sleep per night for adults. Establish a relaxing bedtime routine, avoid screens before bed, and create a comfortable sleep environment to improve the quality of your sleep. 5. Practice Deep Breathing Exercises Deep breathing exercises can help calm your mind and reduce stress. The 4-7-8 technique, where you inhale for 4 seconds, hold your breath for 7 seconds, and exhale for 8 seconds, is a simple yet effective way to activate your body's relaxation response. Practice this technique for a few minutes each day to help manage anxiety. #James Donaldson notes:Welcome to the “next chapter” of my life… being a voice and an advocate for #mentalhealthawarenessandsuicideprevention, especially pertaining to our younger generation of students and student-athletes.Getting men to speak up and reach out for help and assistance is one of my passions. Us men need to not suffer in silence or drown our sorrows in alcohol, hang out at bars and strip joints, or get involved with drug use.Having gone through a recent bout of #depression and #suicidalthoughts myself, I realize now, that I can make a huge difference in the lives of so many by sharing my story, and by sharing various resources I come across as I work in this space.  #http://bit.ly/JamesMentalHealthArticleFind out more about the work I do on my 501c3 non-profit foundationwebsite www.yourgiftoflife.org Order your copy of James Donaldson's latest book,#CelebratingYourGiftofLife: From The Verge of Suicide to a Life of Purpose and Joy www.celebratingyourgiftoflife.com Link for 40 Habits Signupbit.ly/40HabitsofMentalHealth If you'd like to follow and receive my daily blog in to your inbox, just click on it with Follow It. Here's the link https://follow.it/james-donaldson-s-standing-above-the-crowd-s-blog-a-view-from-above-on-things-that-make-the-world-go-round?action=followPub 6. Connect with Others Social support is crucial for managing stress and anxiety. Spending time with friends and family can provide a sense of belonging and help you cope with challenging situations. If you're unable to meet in person, consider virtual meetings or phone calls to stay connected. 7. Limit Alcohol and Caffeine Both alcohol and caffeine can increase anxiety and interfere with your ability to relax. While it may be tempting to use alcohol as a way to unwind, it can actually make anxiety worse in the long run. Similarly, high caffeine intake can lead to jitteriness and exacerbate anxiety symptoms. Moderation is key. 8. Engage in Hobbies and Activities You Enjoy Taking time for hobbies and activities you enjoy can provide a much-needed break from stress. Whether it's reading, painting, gardening, or playing a musical instrument, engaging in enjoyable activities can help you relax and recharge. Make it a point to set aside time for these activities regularly. 9. Seek Professional Help If your anxiety and stress are overwhelming and interfere with your daily life, it may be time to seek professional help. Therapists and counselors can provide support and teach coping strategies. Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is particularly effective for treating anxiety disorders. Don't hesitate to reach out to a mental health professional if you need assistance. 10. Practice Gratitude Practicing gratitude can shift your focus from negative thoughts to positive aspects of your life. Keeping a gratitude journal, where you write down things you're thankful for each day, can help improve your mood and reduce stress. Research published in the Journal of Happiness Studies found that gratitude is associated with greater well-being and lower stress levels. Conclusion Managing anxiety and stress is essential for maintaining your overall well-being. By incorporating these 10 effective strategies into your daily routine, you can reduce anxiety and improve your quality of life. Remember, it's important to find what works best for you and to be patient with yourself as you work towards a more balanced and stress-free life. For more information please click here Read the full article

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How do future predictions exactly work? This is how it goes for me!

Future Predictions also come to you in very natural forms that you don't even notice Hello! I hope the Unity in Diversity article helped you to connect deeper with the Oneness energies! This week I am answering a question that some of you make now and then. How do future predictions work? It is not as complex as you might think, and certainly not something entirely exotic. You may have both the mental and spiritual capabilities to at least make small predictions. Hunches, for example, are a form of uncontrolled predicting, so keep reading! Of course, you have had hutches in the past, and you will certainly have more. Have you found yourself in a situation where your gut "told you something" and you were glad that you followed it? This is something normal and for everybody. The American Psychological Association is studying chronesthesia (source: APA) as a hypothetical brain/mind activity or capacity to tap into future timelines. These studies do not include spiritual capabilities such as channeling our Spirit Guides as well as other ways to tap into the future, however, it is a great start. The human consciousness is capable of much more because we can perceive things beyond linear time. As simple as living in the past, or living in the future, and from there, a lot more, such as perceiving potential outcomes from a situation, even the likely to happen. The Unconscious nature of time predictions When I talk about future predictions, I like first to share the different types of predictions. It is not the same to have a hunch versus accessing through the Spirit to future timeline as an aid to make a decision, for example. However, thanks to abilities such as intuition and empathy you are capable of picking up on things before they arrive, or your intellect can guess or foresee them. Future predictions start from a small hunch or gut feeling. I recommend you start by being more present in everything you do. For you to get as involved as you can in what interests you the most because the more you pick up consciously, the more will your subconscious. Predictions start from here, especially those that you do not control by connecting to the spirit, and they can happen at any time. These are gut feelings, hunches, claircognition, and even premonitions. I want to reinforce how powerful emotions are as well as the energy in your Heart Chakra. I always teach that to connect to the Spirit you mainly use three chakras: - The Heart Chakra: You match the vibrations of Spirit. - The Crown Chakra: You connect with the Spirit. - The Third Eye Chakra: You interpret the Spirit. This is a very basic approach, from here it goes onward, but this is a fantastic foundation. With future predictions, the Heart Chakra also plays a key role. It is true for all the future predictions that I have made, there is a powerful validation during the process. I feel a warm sensation in the middle of the chest, as well as small pressure. This pressure comes from within, it is hard to explain, but it doesn't feel physical. I use this as a validation that I am aligned with the Spirit and receiving clearing information. The intensity of this feeling changes depending on the prediction itself. For example, uncontrolled future predictions normally feel stronger than the controlled ones. Perhaps no much on gut feelings and hunches (it depends on the person), but certainly, premonitions are an extremely powerful form of uncontrolled future predictions. Here, you will feel as if your entire chest is filled up with powerful energy, and in this specific case, your consciousness will travel far. The importance of being present As with most things in life, you need to be present to see further. Certainly, when we speak of future predictions, we are talking about seeing further. You need to perceive properly the world that surrounds you and know it well. Intuition for example sharpens a lot if you are present because you will be easily able to pick up on sudden changes, or if something is out of place. It might be a subtle feeling, but you will pick up on it. If you are more observant, you can also sharpen your ability to notice these changes. So this is true for both very intuitive and very observant persons. For your more intuitive side, empathy also plays a key role here. If you are using future predictions for yourself, you can have more information to help you come up with potential results unless you can channel the answer from your Spirit Guides directly. If you are doing them for others, how they are feeling can help you as well. So, the key is to be present and to use as much of your physical and spiritual capacities. If you can connect to Spirit and get answers right away, fantastic! However, if you can't, taking everything I am sharing into consideration will help you a great deal. Controlling future predictions Think about this situation: You emphatically pick up a sudden change of emotion from another person in a professional setting that you know well.  Perhaps intellectually you calculate the potential outcomes from this situation, and what plan of action you need to take. As you ponder through this, you get a strong warm feeling in your chest about one potential situation. You decide to follow this situation to only realize you were right (and are glad) to take the actions you did. This is a form of future predictions that are almost controlled. The first step as far as controlled predictions, you need to start to learn how to channel. Once you start to connect to your Spirit Guides and Akasha, you will add a huge amount of help and support. But remember, this doesn't mean that they will live your life for you. You still need to focus on the foundation steps I shared with you. However, connecting to the Spirit will give you a great deal of support, and you certainly will cut a lot of corners. Another important point, as I shared above is to work on your Heart Chakra. You will enhance your intuition, as well as have a stronger feeling when you get a gut feeling or hunch. You need to keep in mind that when talking about future predictions, it doesn't happen all in the mind. There is an extra-sensory perception here, a skill that each person has, whether it is sharper or not. You need to connect stronger with yourself to easily pick up on it but don't forget you can do it too. For this reason, you need to work on better understanding your feelings to be able to measure the accuracy of the prediction and to narrow it down to a point of clarity. Don't worry if at first, you get mixed emotions. When you are unsure, you must always discard any information you believe you might have received and check again. You need to be 100% clear when making future predictions. If you aren't sure, but you can connect to the Spirit, you should keep asking.  For example, if you are using the Tarot as an aid for future predictions, you should draw another card, or seek for more interpretations on the ones you revealed already. You can use divination tools to help you make future predictions, however, you will still need to feel these energies within your heart chakra, because only that validates the information is accurate. Pushing away optimism to ensure accuracy I want to give a powerful advice, and you must take it. When making future predictions you need to keep in mind that you may receive an answer you do not want. You must be a clear vessel when receiving information this way, and you should never question it. You only need to question if you received properly your energy, starting from your heart as I shared above. If you know you are well-connected and you received bad news, you need to accept them. Remember that we control our destiny, and we are masters of our future. Even if the news received is bad, you can start taking action to change it. One great thing about future predictions is knowing that you still might have time to change them if necessary. Is like a view from the hill and seeing far away an army approaching with hostile intentions. The battle is imminent, but you can prepare for it or choose to flee. The important aspect here is for you to never follow your emotions other than the one that validates your connection. For this reason, it is also good that you can clear your mind, so your wishes and thoughts don't come in the way. You will be able to see how each of your thoughts feel, so you can isolate them from the information that comes to you with that "special feeling" that you will feel only when you are connected. But don't worry, as with everything else, practice makes the champion. You don't need to start predicting each step you take. You want to start with small things, for example, attempting to avoid sudden traffic jams by taking a detour. Being observant about how the road and amount of cars look in comparison to the average, as well as an empathic approach as far as the overall road's behavior during the driving. If you have a special feeling while thinking you need to exit the freeway, do it! Especially if you are working up your future predictions and intuition! You will be glad you did. So, as this one, try with more little things and work your way up from there, and remember, don't rush, and don't get anxious to progress. This only brings delays and frustrations. Checking parallel realities and comparing There is one more resource I have used and implemented since early 2022. We are multi-dimensional beings, and there is an endless amount of Universes forming the Multiverse. Because of the 7 Principles of the Universe, you can also play with these energies. You need to be able to tap the Akashic Records and Spirit Guides for this one, so with their aid, you can access information from the most immediate universes to this one. Only one tiny change may differ two entire Universes. By seeing the similarities between now, and "the now" from parallel Universe, you will have more information to come up with accurate future predictions by also understanding these Principles. Think about a house with ten rooms, all are the same, but there is only one change in each of the rooms. You can find many, many decorations as well as several pieces of furniture, carpentry, etc.  Some of these changes will be so subtle, such as a single adornment might have a different fade in the color. Take it that you know that the carpets and adornments might be slightly different, and for nine of these rooms, the only change is the color of a few drawings in the carpets. Ask yourself, if you are in the 10th room, and there will be a change. What do you think it's more likely to be? The carpet? Or not having a desk instead? You know all the other 9 rooms have the same desk, no changes. Because of the Principle of Correspondence alone, it is pretty much a done deal that it will be the carpet. You could certainly tell that future predictions with parallel realities work this way. I am finding it a bit complex to explain, but I hope the above analogy helps! I mainly want to throw you this idea for you to ponder on it. As you get better, you will keep finding ways to polish up your future predictions and improve your life, and the life of those who you help. Make sure to ponder on everything I shared, and start observing yourself more. You too have hunches and a perfectly working Third Eye to refine these. With good practice, you will get better at making future predictions at least for yourself. The more you explore, the more fascinating you will realize things are. There are many things out there at your reach, and future predictions is indeed one of them. FAQ Q: Do you need to be psychic to make future predictions? A: It depends, everybody can make future predictions without even thinking about it such as gut feelings and hunches. However, these alone are insufficient for a solid outcome prediction. For these, you will need to start connecting with the Spirit, etc. Q: Do future predictions come from the Third Eye? A: More than one chakra is involved when connecting to Spirit for a future prediction. The Heart Chakra plays a vital role, not only because of the vibrations but also to be able to know when you truly are receiving the information versus just wistfully thinking. Q: How can I refine my hunches and gut feelings? A: You need to have a clear and organized mind. The Path to Success and Channeling courses will greatly help you. From here, you need to make sure to practice and to work on feeling a great connection with yourself, and your perception. Little by little, after some time, you will see yourself improving. Q: Can we improve future predictions? A: With practice, you can improve your predictions by refining your connection with Spirit and how emphatically you connect with the situation. Everything in life requires practice, as practice is what makes the champion. I found out that over time, you learn and discover new things that will continue refining your skills as well as help you to be more accurate with greater self-trust. Q: Can you make global future predictions, or predict sports outcomes or the lottery? A: You might get hunches or feel that one sports team might do better than others. You can be extremely empathic to reading horses and even knowing how they will perform. However, you will not get guidance from Spirit about these. Regarding future events, while you will not know "everything that will happen," you can get some ideas such as in Monthly Tarot readings. You cannot certainly predict the lottery. Q: Can you predict illnesses or major problems? A: You can use future predictions to know the more immediate situations that if unattended, could yield to a bigger problem such as an illness. Sometimes, depending on your life purpose and soul agreements, you might see potential negative outcomes that you can take action and change.   Next month, it’s July's Monthly Tarot Reading time, and we will talk about the following Tarot Card: The Magician. You will also have a couple or three questions related to this card for you to reflect on. The guided meditation "The Magician" card will be available to purchase. Stay tuned for next Wednesday! So, If you do not want to miss a single update, click below to join our weekly newsletter, and you will gain access to exclusive content. Subscribe now! I invite you to check earlier posts: seventh year, sixth year, fifth year, fourth year, third year, second year, first year. Love & Light, Lots of blessings and abundance your way! (Home) Rev. Fernando Albert   Read the full article

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Dr. David R. Williams (born June 12, 1954) is the Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, as well as a professor of African and African American Studies and Sociology at Harvard University.

Born in the Caribbean Island of Aruba, he attended the University of the Southern Caribbean. He earned his MPH from Loma Linda University and his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Michigan, He joined Harvard to become a Norman Professor of Public Health. He served as a senior research advisor on the PBS documentary “Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?” He delivered a TED Talk titled “How Racism Makes Us Sick,” which has amassed over 1 million views from around the world and has been translated into 18 different languages.

He developed the Everyday Discrimination Scale. This scale has been used extensively in health studies as a measure of how perceived discrimination may affect psychological and physical distress. He contends race is not a useful genetic category but a profoundly useful social category. He believes residential segregation is one of the biggest contributors to the reduced health of Black Americans. His research has appeared in top journals in sociology, psychology, medicine, public health, and epidemiology, and he has published over 400 scholarly papers in scientific journals and edited collections.

He serves as the chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences.

He has been invited to speak at scientific conferences around the globe, presenting his ideas in Europe, Africa, and the US. A member of the American Psychology Association, he contributed to the 2017 APA report, “Stress and Health Disparities.” Due to his research, he continues to be one of the most cited Black social scientists. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Don’t worry, we won’t question your reality. There really is a new episode out today ;)

Join us as we discuss Gaslight (1944) and try to shed some light on its more well-known progeny - ‘gaslighting’💡

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What can adaptation theory tell us about how language evolves, the use of therapy speak, and the role of media in our understanding of medical terms? Let us enlighten you… 🕯️

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Episode content warnings: murder, domestic abuse and violence, emotional manipulation and gaslighting, including interpersonal, medical, political, and institutional gaslighting. Mentions of institutional racism and white supremacy. Neither of us is a mental health professional and we will be looking at these issues from a cultural perspective.

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Secondary Sources:🌐 APA Dictionary of Psychology Definition of “gaslight” (dictionary.apa.org/gaslight) 📰 “Donald Trump is Gaslighting America” (2016) (Duca, Lauren) (www.teenvogue.com/story/donald-trump-is-gaslighting-america) 📼 SciShow Psych: “Gaslighting: Abuse That Makes You Question Reality” (2017) (youtu.be/ImBEhNku_YA?si=QimAV-ZdRhigQDEO) 📚“Adaptation and Appropriation” (2005) (Sanders, Julie) 📼 The Take “Gaslighting, Explained | What Does It Meme?” (2021) (youtu.be/eN4la0xOBdM?si=Fh6tClaShAVnoE8B) 🎞️ “The Truman Show” (1998) (dir. Peter Weir, wr. Andrew Niccol) 📺 “Gaslit” (2022) (Starz) (cr. Robbie Pickering, dir. Matt Ross) 📰 “The Limits of Therapy-Speak” (Volpe, Allie 2023) (www.vox.com/even-better/23769973/limits-therapy-speak-narcissist-gaslighting-trauma-toxic) 📰“‘That’s triggering!’ Is therapy-speak changing the way we talk about ourselves?” (Morgan, Eleanor 2023) (www.theguardian.com/society/2023/aug/20/triggered-toxic-narcissist-are-you-fluent-in-therapy-speak) 📰 “What is gaslighting?” (Wilkinson, Alissa 2017) (www.vox.com/culture/2017/1/21/14315372/what-is-gaslighting-gaslight-movie-ingrid-bergman) 📰 “How to Spot 'Medical Gaslighting' and What to Do About It.” (Caron, Christina) (www.nytimes.com/2022/07/29/well/mind/medical-gaslighting.html) 📺 “Live Your Own Life” (“효심이네 각자도생”) (KBS2 2023-2024) 📰 “Time Magazine 2023 Person of the Year: Taylor Swift” (Lansky, Sam) (time.com/6342806/person-of-the-year-2023-taylor-swift/) 🎙️ “Stockholm Syndrome” (2018) (You’re Wrong About Podcast) 📰 “Bystander intervention” (Wiki) (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_intervention) 📺 “Unbelievable” (Susannah Grant, Ayelet Waldman, Michael Chabon) (2019, Netflix) 🎞️ “They Cloned Tyrone” (dir. Juel Taylor, wr. Tony Rettenmaier, Juel Taylor) 🎞️ “The Stepford Wives” (1975) (dir. Bryan Forbes, wr. William Goldman) 🎞️ “The Girl on the Train” (2016) (dir. Tate Taylor, wr. Erin Cressida Wilson) 📚 “Rosemary’s Baby” (1967) (Levin, Ira) 📚 “The Stepford Wives” (1972) (Levin, Ira)

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Our team comprises highly experienced and qualified neuropsychologists who are among the forefront experts in the field. We possess extensive experience in evaluating patients with traumatic brain injuries, concussions, and various neurological disorders. Every one of our neuropsychologists meets the rigorous criteria necessary to apply for clinical neuropsychologist certification, as recognized by the American Psychological Association (APA) and in accordance with the guidelines established by the Houston Conference on Specialty Education and Training in Clinical Neuropsychology. This includes completing doctoral education, participating in clinical neuropsychology internships, and undergoing residency education and training in clinical neuropsychology. Our staff members have received exceptional training from leaders in the field, having affiliations with esteemed institutions like Pepperdine University and the University of Southern California (USC). Our expertise extends from assessing toddlers as young as 14 months to geriatric patients, covering a wide age range. Additionally, our diverse team includes bilingual Spanish-speaking experts who are adept at conducting evaluations with Spanish-speaking individuals. With our skilled and accomplished staff, we are well-equipped to provide comprehensive neuropsychological services tailored to a diverse range of patients across the lifespan, ensuring the highest standards of care and evaluation.

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When we feel out of control, we shift down to our primitive coping mechanisms, ramping up our fear responses.

The first day I returned to work after maternity leave, I walked to the office racked with a fear I knew to be highly unlikely: that our new, and loving, caregiver would push the stroller across the street at the precise moment a reckless driver ran the light. I imagined the sound of tires screeching, the sickening crunch. I started to sweat, and my heart rate quickened. And then, when I got to the office, I took a deep breath, told myself to pull it together, and did.

What I was doing, I later learned, is common to new parents. In a heightened emotional state, you’re more prone to what psychologists call “catastrophizing”, or experiencing “intrusive thoughts” – imagining the worst-case scenario, however improbable it might be. They came at me full-throttle when I became a mother; according to studies, I’m not alone. By some estimates, more than 70% of new mothers have them. One close friend catastrophizes, but in reverse – once the danger has passed, once the baby has been released from the doctor with just a normal virus, not the dreaded MIS-C, she’ll sit with the fear of what could have happened.

In moderation, while they’re certainly not fun, these fantasies are healthy and normal. They are rooted deep in our bodies, an adaptive trait and evolutionary defense mechanism that helps us prepare for the worst and protect our most valuable possession. If I stay inside the cave and obsess about a mastodon attacking my baby while gulping back my cave wine and binge-watching cave paintings, the lower the chances I wander out on to the tundra and have a tusked encounter, in other words.

What isn’t healthy? Being bombarded with such a relentless onslaught of tragic events that the condition of simply living in today’s world makes these feelings chronic. So chronic, our brains’ ability to process uncertainty and anxiety might be diminishing – as we speak.

First, some stress stats: according to a March poll released by the American Psychological Association, inflation, supply chain problems, global uncertainty and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, on top of a two-year pandemic, have pushed America’s stress to “alarming” and “unprecedented levels” that will “challenge our ability to cope”, APA’s CEO said. And unhealthy behaviors that began in Covid’s first year – more drinking, less exercise – “became entrenched” in the second, suggesting that the path towards a collective recalibration may be a far way off. That goes for parents (“Parents Aren’t All Right,” blared a recent Axios article), and non-parents, too.

One way I was able to turn these stats into something more vivid – beyond tallying up my glass-of-wine-and-fistful-of-gummy-bear-consumption-per-week – was to speak to a neurologist who has found herself particularly concerned about what all this might be doing to our neural functions.

“The whole world – but certainly we see it very vividly in America – has had brain changes due to chronic stress, which makes us less capable of making decisions that can give us a healthy future, both at an individual and cultural level,” Dr Amy Arnsten, a professor of neuroscience and psychology at Yale medical school, told me. I’d reached out after coming across a YouTube video she posted during the first year of the pandemic that clearly delineates how the brain processes uncontrollable stress, and how that has been exacerbated during Covid.

The nuts and bolts: there are more primitive parts of the brain (like the amygdala) that control our basic functions, like our heart rate, or the immediate rush of fear we feel when a snake slithers across our path; and more evolved regions (like the prefrontal cortex) that execute top-down control, and allow us to focus, plan ahead, and inhibit bad impulses. I have my prefrontal cortex to thank for the statistical reality I was able to summon, that first day back from maternity leave, that assuaged my fear of a skipped light and a vigorously pushed stroller.

When we get stressed or feel out of control, we shift down to our primitive coping mechanisms, ramping up our fear responses and shutting off the prefrontal cortex. The higher the levels of arousal or stress, the stronger those primitive circuits get, the less affected you feel by things that might normally give you pleasure, and the more things feel threatening or sad.

As Arnsten explained to me, your brain is wired to activate its fear system if it sees someone else afraid. So when horrifying news blows up our phones, we instinctively empathize. Combine that with the new normal of living in a constant state of Covid-related uncertainty, and a political environment that can feel hopeless and intransigent, and you get a perfect neurological storm that has her worried.

“You are losing the very circuits that enable you to self-regulate, to be rational,” Arnsten told me, “and in a small-grained way not to be irritable, which is really important for family health.”

Can we get those circuits back? Research suggests yes, if we spend time in calm environments in which we feel in control. There are active ways to combat our new reality, many of which we know but don’t pursue: exercise can strengthen the prefrontal cortex, deep breathing can calm one’s arousal systems. Seeking out joy and humor, in the forms of books or music, can help. Another simple suggestion: “Do something that helps you feel more efficacious,” Arnsten said, “even if it’s very small. Often times, helping someone else can help jumpstart that.”

Before we hung up, Arnsten mentioned one large caveat. In 2011, Mount Sinai School of Medicine researchers put three cohorts of rats – young, middle-aged and aged – through stressful situations (which, for a rat, means being restrained by wire mesh), and determined that “aging modulates the capacity for experience-dependent spine plasticity in PFC neurons”. Spines, in this case, refer to “dendritic spines”, which protrude from a neuron’s dendrite, and receive input. You lose them during chronic stress exposure. In layperson’s terms, the study concluded that the older you are, the harder it is to weather the negative effects of chronic stress exposure and respond rationally – if you’re a rat.

“Now that I’m an oldish rat,” Arnsten told me with a chuckle, “I’m hoping they didn’t wait enough in the study; that connectivity did, in fact, return with time.”

For the older rats among us, here’s to hoping.

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"Speaking Of Psychology" Podcast: No Mind Games Here!

There are too many people on TV, radio, and podcasts claiming to have expertise in psychology and being a psychologist. Shows like Dr. Phil seem more exploitative than illuminating. However, they're some terrific psychology podcasts like Hidden Brain and All In The Mind.

The psychology podcast I am highlighting today can be considered the anti-Dr. Phil or the inverse-Dr. Drew. This podcast is serious and scholarly but also informative, insightful, and captivating.

Speaking of Psychology is an audio podcast series highlighting some of the latest, most important, and relevant psychological research being conducted today.

Produced by the American Psychological Association, the objective of these podcasts is to help listeners apply the science of psychology to their everyday lives.

The host of the podcast is Kim Mills, who is the senior director of strategic external communications and public affairs for the American Psychological Association (APA), where she has worked since 2007. Mills led APA’s foray into social media and envisioned and launched APA’s award-winning podcast series Speaking of Psychology in 2013. A former reporter and editor for The Associated Press, Mills has also written for publications including The Washington Post, Fast Company, American Journalism Review, Dallas Morning News, MSNBC.com, and Harvard Business Review. 

As a host, Mills is as dry as Lake Mead will be soon, with a voice I can only describe as molasses with a touch of gravel. Having made that criticism, let me say that Mills is an incredibly good host. I know what you're thinking. How can both attributes be accurate? 

Easy. Although Mill's voice and sonic demeanor may not trigger a dopamine release, her interviewing skills and her ability to ask bullseye target questions make her superb at unearthing valuable information from the guests. 

For example, the February 1 episode, How to live with bipolar disorder, not only revoked some persistent myths about the disorder via Dr. David Miklowitz but also offered listeners a stark, first-hand account from entertainment lawyer Terri Cheney, who suffers from the disorder. Mills and her guests shake us up with the knowledge that this disorder affects about four percent of the population but is mired in misunderstanding about its symptoms and treatment.

In the category of relevance, the episode called, Can a pathological liar be cured, offered listeners insight into the roots of the misinformation and disinformation that impacts social media and political dialogue. In the episode, the two guests, Dr. Drew Curtis and Dr. Christian L. Hart, explain that pathological liars often display their dishonesty with lies that are too incredible or inconsistent.

The example given is when Republican NY Congressman George Santos claimed his mother died at 9/11, but then later on, claimed she died a decade later. The guests assert that pathological lying should be classified as a mental health disorder. They also note that liars are more prevalent in professions such as sales -- timeshare, anyone? -- or politicians -- hello, my name is Donald Trump.

In the November 2, 2022, episode, Why you should apologize even when it's hard to, Mills interviews Dr. Karina Schumann, who details why apologizing is so important -- hear that, men -- and what makes a good apology. Schumann explains that offering an apology -- even a good one -- does not always mean forgiveness should be expected immediately.

Other recent topics covered include procrastination, living a single, happy life, why we care so much about fairness, and mass shootings.

What makes this podcast accessible to listeners without a psychology degree boils down to Kim Mills as the host, transforming academic blabber into understandable language, and the objective of the podcast, which seems to be using psychology as a valuable tool to interpret and manage our lives.

Check out Speaking of Psychology. You do not need a degree in psychology to listen. Just an open mind. 

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Authoritative Parenting Is Considered the Gold Standard in Child-Rearing - Experts Explain Why

There are plenty of parenting styles out there, and the right one for you ultimately depends on your personal preferences and your family. But there's one style that's consistently praised for its approachability and the behaviors it helps instill: authoritative parenting. At its core, authoritative parenting involves listening to kids while still requiring that they follow rules set by their parents. The concept of authoritative parenting has been around for decades, and even the American Psychological Association (APA) gives it props, noting that "children raised with this style tend to be friendly, energetic, cheerful, self-reliant, self-controlled, curious, cooperative and achievement-oriented." So, what does authoritative parenting involve and are there any drawbacks to the approach? Below, experts break it down. What Is Authoritative Parenting? Authoritative parenting is a mix of gentleness and firmness, with parents being nurturing, responsive, and supportive, but with clear limits and rules set for kids, the APA explains. "Authoritative parenting is where there is a high concern for the child, but the parent is trying to direct control," says Robert Keder, MD, a pediatrician who specializes in developmental behavior at Connecticut Children's Medical Center. With authoritative parenting, parents try to shape a child's behavior by thoroughly explaining and discussing rules and boundaries in place, says Mayra Mendez, PhD, LMFT, a licensed psychotherapist at Providence Saint John's Child and Family Development Center in Santa Monica, CA. "It allows for teaching, education, implementation of rules, and understanding why rules exist and why we have to be governed by them," she explains. "These parents teach the guidelines of the world to the child, but also listen to the child." Dr. Mendez says authoritative parenting hinges on communication, without parents losing their sense of authority. "There can be a lot of respect rendered to the child as well, especially as they get older," she says. What Does Authoritative Parenting Look Like? Dr. Keder refers to authoritative parenting as the "Danny Tanner style of parenting," referencing the "Full House" patriarch. Authoritative parents will help kids who are facing a challenge by saying something like, "I know this is hard and you can do better. Let me give you a hug and a kiss, and let's work on this," he says. "Authoritative parents hold children to high expectations, but are reasonable about it," Dr. Keder says. "They're not giving demands that are way outside the child's skill set." Authoritative parents will also allow their kids some freedoms, like spending the night at a friend's house, but reiterate the rules in advance and make it clear that the child is expected to behave a certain way, Dr. Keder adds. "It's the sweet spot of where you're negotiating your needs and the child's needs to help them prepare for things," Dr. Keder says. This parenting style isn't free-range, where kids have a lot of freedom, or authoritarian, where parents are rigid and lay down tough rules - it's somewhere in the middle. The Benefits and Drawbacks of Authoritative Parenting Authoritative parenting has a lot of positive features, Dr. Mendez says. "Parents can demonstrate a sense of flexibility and, with that comes a sense of mutual respect," she says, adding that the parenting style conveys,"This is a young person growing up who still needs guidance, but we respect each other." Authoritative parenting also encourages parents to speak on a child's level when discussing important topics, so that they understand the rationale behind decisions, Dr. Mendez says. This style also makes expectations clear to children. "Rules are not random," she says. "There are no secrets and you don't deliver rules to the child out of nowhere." Dr. Keder also praises this parenting style for being sympathetic to where kids are at in life, while still holding them… https://www.popsugar.com/family/authoritative-parenting-49339334?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr

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A Professor Emeritus at California State University who has given academic talks on “expanding the transgender umbrella” has for over two decades participated in a fetish forum that hosts and produces extreme sadomasochistic written pornography involving the castration and torture of children.

Thomas W. Johnson, a retired Professor at California State University in Chico (CSUC), is a formative member of the body modification fetish site The Eunuch Archives, which was the subject of a months-long investigation by Reduxx released on May 17. At the time, Johnson’s identity had not yet been confirmed as an anonymous user who goes by the handle “Jesus.”

But according to posts made to the forum in March and April, Johnson let his identity slip and invited site members to partake in an academic survey on “childhood experiences, castration desire and sexual history,” as well as watch him give a talk at CSUC via Zoom.

Johnson has published research based on surveys he has personally conducted with other members of the Archives. His academic interests advocate for expanding the concept of ‘gender identity’ to include men with sadomasochistic and even pedophilic castration fantasies — something that has now been included as a Male-to-Eunuch identity in the draft Standards of Care for the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH), an international medical body that sets guidelines including those related to the transitioning of children.

As previously reported by Reduxx, the Eunuch Archives hosts over 3,000 pieces of fictional child pornography that detail the rape, torture, and killing of children. In some narratives, children with stunted puberty are raped by doctors. In others, children are castrated by force as part of a sadistic sexual torture ritual.

According to Johnson’s own research, the majority of site members who participated in a survey cited sexual fantasy as their main reason for interest in castration. Some survery participants asserted that they became sexually aroused when witnessing animal castration.

Additionally, group members have used the forum to request information regarding doctors willing to perform orchiectomies without a psychiatric evaluation. There are also personal ads where participants request partners for BDSM acts. “Seeking total body modification… Slave in search of Master that would like to take a boy and transform it into an exotic fetish toy,” wrote one site member.

In addition to Johnson, the identities of two other leading site members have also been determined by Reduxx as similarly prominent academics.

Richard J. Wassersug has for over 20 years used the alias “Eunuchunique” on the forum, while Krister H. Willette, who has been active in the community since 1998, uses the screen name “Kristoff.” Both men, along with Johnson, presented research they co-authored together at a 2009 conference in Oslo held by WPATH. Wassersug was an Honorary professor in the Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences at the University of British Columbia, but has also been affiliated with Dalhousie and La Trobe Universities.

In May 2010, the contents of the Oslo presentation were published in The International Journal of Transgenderism, an academic journal issued by WPATH.

Wassersug, Willette, and Johnson were again invited to speak at a 2011 WPATH conference in Atlanta, Georgia. It was during this conference that the decision was made to de-classify Gender Identity Disorder as a psychological condition. In its place, Gender Dysphoria would become the recommended terminology.

Johnson claims to have been influential in editing the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistic Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM), which is published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA). The DSM is regarded as the authoritative guide to the diagnosis of mental disorders in the United States, but is also referenced internationally.

“The draft for the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (the DSM-5) suggests ‘Gender Incongruence,’ which I much prefer,” Johnson wrote in 2010. “The body and mind are out of sync, with no mental illness implied!”

Johnson later added, “I was one of the many who were asked to draft position papers for the committee to read as they prepared their draft. I also wrote a long commentary on the draft, which the committee will use during the revision process.”

When the DSM-5 was released in 2013, a term for a pathological and sexualized fixation on genital mutilation was removed. Previously, Skoptic syndrome had been listed as a gender identity disorder in the DSM-4.

In 2016, Johnson claimed to have been specifically chosen to rewrite a portion of the Standards of Care by former WPATH president Eli Coleman, who “pointed at me and announced that I was expected to provide input on eunuchs for the revision. Now is our opportunity to help devise the standards of care that will be most helpful.”

For nearly two decades, the Eunuch Archive has hosted an annual “Meeting of Members.” The event is held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Willette’s area of residence, and is co-hosted by Willette and Johnson. Minneapolis is also where former WPATH president Eli Coleman currently lives and works.

Johnson and Wassersug have previously released academic research justifying the pedophilic fantasies amongst castration fetishists. In a 2015 paper titled “The Sexual Side of Castration Narratives,” fictional child sexual abuse material was called “therapeutic” and helpful for those with eunuch ideations.

On May 13, research by Johnson and Wassersug titled “Castration for Pleasure: Exploring Extreme Castration Ideations in Fiction” was published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior.

“The most popular [Eunuch Archive] stories link sexual gratification and romantic partnership with genital abuse. They are characterized by the absence of consent for genital ablations and multiple [sadomasochism]-related paraphilias,” note Johnson and Wassersug. “Many stories feature attraction to, and ablation of, the genitals of pubescent or adolescent males.”

According to a 2007 CSUC newsletter issued by the Anthropology Department, Johnson was noted as being the long-time president of the Children’s Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society.

Reduxx reached out to the Anthropology Department at CSUC for comment on Johnson’s association with a forum hosting child sexual abuse fantasies, but did not receive a response in time for publication. This article may be updated in the event they respond.

(read the article on the original website to access all the sources)

[daydreamers-sys]

Genuine question, and I'm so sorry if this comes off wrong, but I'm part of a system myself and I'll I've ever heard is that you have to have trauma for a system to form. I'm not trying to say it's not a thing or anything like that, I was just curious how that worked and how a system can form without trauma? Again feel free to ignore me if this is a weird question or if I'm overstepping anything, I really just wanted to ask /gen

From one trauma system to another, this is something we had to relearn, ourselves.

Trauma is a huge factor in whether someone becomes plural. This plurality would be specifically to protect whoever is affected by the trauma.

[ID: a screenshot from the APA website’s entry on the diagnostic criteria for DID.]

Dissociative Identity Disorder

Dissociative identity disorder is associated with overwhelming experiences, traumatic events and/or abuse that occurred in childhood. Dissociative identity disorder was previously referred to as multiple personality disorder.

Symptoms of dissociative identity disorder (criteria for diagnosis) include:

The existence of two or more distinct identities (or “personality states”). The distinct identities are accompanied by changes in behavior, memory and thinking. The signs and symptoms may be observed by others or reported by the individual.

Ongoing gaps in memory about everyday events, personal information and/or past traumatic events.

The symptoms cause significant distress or problems in social, occupational or other areas of functioning.

[source]

Childhood trauma isn’t on the list of symptoms for DID and the beginning before the list says that trauma is “associated” with the disorder. These disorders are next to the trauma disorder section because of their relation to trauma and the fact that DID/OSDD can, and more often than not, does develop from trauma. However, according to the APA, trauma is not needed in order to be diagnosed with DID.

This next source is from 1991 and uses some outdated terminology but it’s still something we use today:

“‘multiplicity exists in a non-pathological endogenous form in the general population. About 2% of people may be natural multiples who do not have dysfunctional posttraumatic MPD. They may simply have a highly dissociative psychic organization’ (Ross, 1991, p. 510).”

[Source]

Endogenic systems can also have trauma. The difference is that their trauma didn’t cause their plurality, and they have every right to believe and know that. We’re not in their minds, nor are we their doctors! /lh

Moving the focus off of disordered plurality, there are ways to be plural without even having DID, OSDD, UDD, etc.

Willogens, tulpas, parogens, and thoughtforms are purposely created members of systems that gain their own sense of will and self through different forms of manifestation or psychological focus. Some of these, like willogens and tulpas, can even be spiritual in nature. Other spiritual origins include metagenic and aethergenic.

If one experiences paracosm, a paragen could form! This would be one of the characters in your paracosm becoming self aware, specifically to the fact that they’re in a paracosm or system. They may or may not be able to front.

There are also systems who can recall having been around for as long as they can remember, effectively since birth. These systems are called protogenic, and our partner system (diagnosed DID) is questioning being proto!

Spontaneous development is also a thing. (Link is Pluralpedia entry)

TLDR: There’s just… many ways a system can develop. Not all plurality is disordered, and not even all disordered plurality is formed from trauma. Spiritual systems, purposely created, systems who have existed since birth, and spontaneous systems exist. To deny this is to deny genuine systems their personal experience and it’s absolutely no one’s place to say a system is faking (not to say you are, Anon! Just speaking in general).

Really hope this helps!