Do you enjoy blasting aliens, or chopping up the undead? A study in a US psychology journal claims to show, for the first time, that playing violent video games can desensitize us to violence in real life, numbing the physiological responses associated with exposure to real violence.
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.
This year, we marked the summer solstice with a direct lightning strike on the data centre which houses our server. Fortunately, all data stayed safe, but network connectivity was absent for about an hour and remained dicey for a few hours after that. So, if you happen to have tried getting in touch with us on the 21st of June, and received an error or an email bounce, that will be why. And if you haven’t been doing it regularly yet, we highly recommend our articles on the importance of backups, backups, backups!
Meet the parents of your next web site building environment: the industry’s two leading software packages, Adobe GoLive CS2 and Macromedia Dreamweaver 8, have recently been brought under one roof by the acquisition of Macromedia by Adobe. We take a look at how the two packages measure up and offer suggestions about upgrading or waiting for the products’ futures to become clearer.
No doubt you will have noticed there’s a wide world beyond CounsellingResource.com; try as we might, we just can’t seem to cover it all! So we’re now working with the great open source content collection assembled at Wikipedia to bring you an extensive encyclopedia supplement right from this site. Read on for full details of the content and its slick search interface.
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