Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life

A new book challenges the idea that women earn less than men primarily as a result of discrimination in the workplace. Rather, argues Warren Farrell, women earn less because of the career decisions they make; moreover, he suggests that when pay is compared for the same actual amount of productivity, women actually make as much or slightly more than men. Maybe both genders can learn something worthwhile from this book about career choices and their impact on quality of life.

If your community has been hit by a natural disaster, you’re probably trying to make sense of what happened and deal with the stress of the situation. These events create a tremendous amount of stress and anxiety for those directly and indirectly affected. In the days and weeks following the disaster, you may begin to have some of these common reactions.

As part of our ongoing international efforts to coordinate volunteer mental health professionals willing to offer counselling, therapy, and other mental health support services to those affected by the tsunami, we are now providing our database to the British Red Cross for supporting those affected in the United Kindom.

Following readers’ positive response to our addition of a drug research abstracts library to our Medications Centre, we have now expanded the library to cover even more of the latest research, including clinical trials, outcome research, drug safety and more.

This companion to our larger general mental health glossary covers terms commonly used in mental health in the context of children and adolescents.