LIfe: just a thought

If you want to get somewhere in life, no one is going to do the pushing for you. You have to push yourself.

Anonymous.

The end of sleep?

Following other posts (here and here) about sleep and all that it entails, here's an excellent article on the illusion and trendable movement towards living without sleeping, kind of.

The end of sleep?: New technologies are emerging that could radically reduce our need to sleep - if we can bear to use them

Kids who bully have greater tendency to show sleep problems

"Our schools do push the importance of healthy eating and exercise, but this study highlights that good sleep is just as essential to a healthy lifestyle."

Sleep is always considered the weakest link when we think about kids' health. Most of the times kids have this bad habit and attitude of thinking about few hours of sleep as something cool and that one must be proud of. On the contrary, good sleep is mandatory.

I found that sleep (or the lack of sleep) is a very important issue among the kids that have behavioral problems here at the school where I work. Most of them have a terrible sleep hygiene, with few hours sleep, long hours of TV before going to sleep, etc.

Interesting piece. Here.

Violence and abuse: electronic library

The mission of the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse (MINCAVA) is to support research, education, and access to violence related resources.

Collaboration in Schools for best Mental Health Programs

Schools Need Collaboration, Not Packaged Solutions, for Best Mental Health Programs

Some highlights:

many schools lack the capacity to access and fully adopt (...) programs.


the gap between research and practice in school mental health remains the primary barrier to helping schools meet the growing mental health needs of their students.


researchers have not given enough consideration to the unique context of schools, leaving many schools unable to capitalize on new ideas and scientific evidence


Too often researchers are ready with the solution before they really know what the problem is. What schools really need is help sorting through everything they're already doing to figure out what's working and what's not, and that can be difficult.


We need to start by asking schools and communities what they need from science and then partner with them to help them evaluate their innovative home-grown solutions and identify, implement, and sustain new programs

Here.

Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder brain maturation

See it here.

One word: Wow!

That's a pretty substantial difference in brain maturation!

Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders

The Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders contains medical articles on mental disorders, conditions and chemical elements. Over 150 mental disorders are organized alphabetically.

You can find, for example, information about Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder or Denial, which has been widely observed in Portugal's Prime Minister behaviors. :P

Life tips, by man who lived to 114

They are:

- embrace change; eat two meals a day; work as long as you can; help others, and don't fear death "because you're born to die".

Inspiring.

Here.

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Self Help Resources

I don't need to say more.

Enjoy!

Working in the health sector in Norway

To all my colleagues that are struggling to get a job in the health sector in Portugal, read below.

What is the demand for workers in the health sector?

In recent years the demand for health personnel has increased. Especially for dentists, specialists in urology,gastroenterology, anaesthesiology, psychiatry and many other areas.
There is a demand for various kinds of health workers in Norway, often in the outlying districts and coastal regions of the country. The lack of nurses and auxiliary nurses to work in the municipal health services is particularly significant at the moment.

WORKING IN THE HEALTH
SECTOR IN NORWAY
(Updated February 2011)

Additional information can be provided.

To be is to communicate

As Bakhtin said, "to be is to communicate". :)

Enuresis

Soon after I arrived at St Cyprian's (not immediately, but after a week or two, just when I seemed to be settling into the routine of school life) I began wetting my bed. I was now aged eight, so that this was a reversion to a habit which I must have grown out of at least four years earlier. Nowadays, I believe, bed-wetting in such circumstances is taken for granted. It is normal reaction in children who have been removed from their homes to a strange place. In those days, however, it was looked on as a disgusting crime which the child committed on purpose and for which the proper cure was a beating. For my part I did not need to be told it was a crime. Night after night I prayed, with a fervour never previously attained in my prayers, ‘Please God, do not let me wet my bed! Oh, please God, do not let me wet my bed!’, but it made remarkably little difference. Some nights the thing happened, others not. There was no volition about it, no consciousness. You did not properly speaking do the deed: you merely woke up in the morning and found that the sheets were wringing wet.

George Orwell . Such, such were the joys.

Aditi Shankardass: A second opinion on learning disorders

Just listen and think.