Garth Kroeker

 Jay Van Bavel and Dominic Packer are social psychologists whose recent book, The Power of Us, is a nice review of basic social psychology w...

Paul Bloom, in his recent book called Against Empathy,  challenges us to question the role of empathy as a vital ingredient of goodness or m...

In my last post, I was discussing a technique of practicing exposure to recordings of upsetting thoughts. This same idea can be applied to...

Worries, ruminations, intrusive thoughts, and obsessional thoughts can be a terrible source of suffering.  If they are mild or infrequent, t...

I originally published this post in March, 2009.  I was just looking at it again today, while browsing through my blog...I thought I would r...

It is usually taught, in "therapy school," that clients or patients should not be seeing more than one therapist at the same time....

There are many books out there about how to be a better parent.  The fact that this genre is popular is, in my opinion, a good sign of soci...

Questionnaires are certainly in vogue in mental health research.  Often they are referred to in technical-sounding jargon, for example it is...

Many studies have shown that CBT is effective for treating depression and anxiety disorders.  The studies are convincing, and the effect siz...

There are various research articles done in the past which describe rates of change in psychotherapy patients, some studies for example desc...

It requires a great deal of work to bring about psychological change. The brain is a dynamic organ, its development influenced by genetic ...