Our new resident Consulting Psychologist now has his own regular column: Ask the Psychologist. If you’re looking for feedback on a relationship, worried about a friend or family member, or just curious about something you’ve always wanted to ask a psychologist, Dr Carver is here to listen and offer you some thoughts.

We’d like to extend a very warm welcome to Dr Joseph M Carver, who joins us as the site’s Consulting Clinical Psychologist and author of his own regular feature. Many readers will know Dr Carver from his popular articles on relationships, as well as from his frequent contributions in the blog section of the site. Now we’ve decided the time has come for Dr Carver to have a section of his own, a dedicated section where you can…Ask the Psychologist!

It’s pretty easy, if you use the new blogging service at our sister site BlogsInMind.com! As part of a revamp of our discussion forum, we’ve launched a new free platform for publishing blogs, including a revenue sharing system that lets you get paid for blogging.

If you’ve searched our database of clinical trials research exploring drug safety and efficacy, you’ll know the search facility can quickly zero in on relevant drug research. But what if you’d just like to browse through trials by condition or by sponsor, or just find out about trials with a particular status?

Good news for practitioners looking for an easy way to log clinical contact hours: our simple clinical logbooks have been updated for the 2007-08 calendar, academic, and financial years. For the first time, we also have a special version for online practitioners eager to escape the ethical quicksand of reporting online clinical experience in misleading calendar time.

A new project will be occupying Managing Editor Greg Mulhauser for the foreseeable future — and will definitely have the bulk of his attention for 3 months starting 15 December. What could divert so much of his effort from CounsellingResource.com for such awhile?

Are you concerned about symptoms that seem like they could indicate ADHD? You’re not alone, as diagnoses of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in adults and children alike continue to increase at a surprisingly high rate. Our section on psychological tests and quizzes has added a short, 6-question Adult ADHD screening quiz based on work by the World Health Organization.