This week’s Psychology Around the Net explains the difference between emotional baggage and emotional success, dives into stereotypes and how to combat them, discusses mental health services for police officers amid today’s climate, and more.
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Mental-Health Advocates Push for More Services for Officers Amid Protests Over Policing: Law enforcement and mental health experts agree that mental health support programs for police officers are especially important now, during the nationwide protests over police brutality and racism. According to Dr. Michael Bizzarro, the director of clinical services for first responders at New Jersey’s Penn Medicine Princeton House Behavioral Health, the protests over policing are extremely challenging for law enforcement right now because it wasn’t so long ago police officers were being praised for their work during the coronavirus pandemic. Says Dr. Bizzarro: “In March, April, and May, they were heroes. Now they are being seen as villains.”
Emotional Success Versus Emotional Baggage: You’re probably familiar with emotional baggage, but how about emotional success? What’s that? Well, it’s not that you are happy all the time with no problems and just a rosy outlook, but it does mean you know how to deal with those problems and charge on.
Stereotypes Harm Black Lives and Livelihoods, But Research Suggests Ways to Improve Things: [EDITED INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT] Katy Milkman, a professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, talks with Modupe Akinola, an associate professor at Columbia Business School who also studies stress, racial bias, and workplace diversity on how stereotypes are formed, how stereotypes affect decisions, and what we can do to combat negative stereotypes.
Is There a Connection Between Sibling and Workplace Bullying? Linda Crockett, an internationally recognized expert on workplace bullying and survivor of sibling scapegoating, intimate partner abuse, and workplace bullying, addresses the connection between sibling bullying and workplace/adult bullying.
Outdoor Light Linked With Teens’ Sleep and Mental Health: Recent National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)-funded research shows that teens who live in places that have significant levels of artificial light at night usually get less sleep and are more likely to develop a mood disorder than adolescents who live in places with low levels of light at night. study author Diana Paksarian, Ph.D., a postdoctoral research fellow at NIMH and the study’s author, says: “These findings illustrate the importance of joint consideration of both broader environmental-level and individual-level exposures in mental health and sleep research.”
Sean Astin Says Mom Patty Duke’s Mental Illness Led Him to Advocate: ‘There’s No Judgment’: You probably know Sean Astin as the talented actor from iconic movies like The Goonies and Lord of the Rings, but did you also know he’s active in the mental health community? Astin’s late mother, Oscar-winning actress Patty Duke, was one of the first in her field to go public with her mental illness; she shared her bipolar diagnosis in her memoir and worked to raise mental health awareness until her death. Astin will be participating in the Well Beings virtual town hall hosted by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and WETA, Washington, D.C.’s PBS station, aimed at launching a campaign targeting the youth mental health crisis. “I’m not speaking as an expert; I’m speaking from personal experience,” Astin says. The town hall will be live-streamed on Tuesday, July 14 at 11 a.m. ET.
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