February 26, 2016 Terry Stawar, EdD
Personally I’ve been very disappointed with the industry, figuring that by now EHR systems would be tremendously more functional and reliable than they are. I seriously thought we would be closer to “Star Trek” performance.
December 18, 2015 Terry Stawar
Training might help in resolving cultural issues among primary care and behavioral health clinicians who work in integrated environments, although it is not clear that educational alone is sufficient.
October 26, 2015 Terry Stawar
As new federal policy aims to increase medication assisted treatment, one wonders what solutions are needed in rural areas.
October 22, 2015 Terry Stawar
In historic witch trials, some of the persecuted were obviously people with mental illness. Today, the icon might serve as a proxy for undesirable aspects of people or personalities.
September 30, 2015 Terry Stawar
Psychology is experiencing one of its worst periods in 140 years, thanks to a scandal involving ethical standards and questions about research validity.
April 28, 2015 Terry Stawar
The challenge for behavioral healthcare providers is in developing trust for engagement, providing realistic options, and developing aftercare services in the HIV outbreak epicenter.
April 8, 2015 Terry L. Stawar, Ed.D. LMHC, LCAC
Glaser attacks Alcoholics Anonymous as an ineffectual, nonscientific, outdated approach to alcohol treatment that has never-the-less managed to dominate the field.
April 3, 2015 Terry L. Stawar, Ed.D.
Always one to blame the patient, Freud believed premature termination of psychoanalysis was generally related to being unsuitable for therapy, due to insufficient intelligence or early dramatic manifestation of resistance that could not be overcome or worked through.
March 27, 2015 Terry Stawar
According to Boston College’s Peter Gray, back in the 1950s, children had two educations. One was traditional school and the other was a hunter-gather education.
December 15, 2014 Terry Stawar
As a psychologist I‘m afraid that that there may be more than a little antipathy between my discipline and the Christmas season in general and Santa Claus in particular. Gary Kustis, an Ohio-based organizational psychologist, says that many people’s introduction to psychology as a profession is the movie, A Miracle on 34th Street.
