Real Health Podcast: How to beat social anxiety and build better relationships with Dr Harry Barry
Here in Ireland, we like to think we’re great at having a chat, the ‘gift of the gab’ as they say.
Anxiety Self-Help
All About Imposter Syndrome: Definition, Health Effects, and Coping
Source: APA PsycPORT™: Psychology Newswire In 1978, two psychologists defined something called “impostor phenomenon” as an experience of feeling like an intellectual phony. The phenomenon is marked by persistent self-doubt and, often, a fear of being exposed as a fraud or imposter—even though, in reality, you’ve been successful in the very field where you feel
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Lessons in Stress Reduction
A new free online course has been launched to try and reduce the stress of the nation during the Covid-19 pandemic. Members of the Irish Society of Alexander Technique Teachers (ISATT) are to offer hundreds of hours of free training online to help people deal with the tidal wave of stress caused by Covid. ISATT […]
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Take it from the experts, a pet can change your life
Some people should not have pets. They’re expensive and can make you sneeze. They require time, attention, and stability. If you have allergies, don’t make yourself suffer. If you travel frequently, think twice. If you simply can’t warm to the idea of an animal companion, then by all means, forget the pet. Otherwise, there are
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Health Anxiety and Beliefs About Being Weak and Vulnerable
Do you believe your survival is “barely hanging on by a thread”? You can improve health anxiety by reshaping dysfunctional beliefs.
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How Storytelling Can Enhance Therapy for OCD
Telling your story can be a powerful way for you and your family to respond to OCD.
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How to Help Children Cope with Anxiety
How to help your child relax and manage their anxiety.
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Climate anxiety linked to lack of access to green space
Survey shows being around nature has a positive effect on mental health.
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Rick Hanson: Compassion is a kind of superpower. Here’s what research says it can do.
Compassion makes us more resilient and less anxious or depressed, and it increases self-worth and happiness, research tells us.
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The influences of mindfulness on high-stakes mathematics test achievement of middle school students
Research has shown that mindfulness can reduce students’ negative emotions associated with high-stakes tests and thereby improve test performance. This study explored the association between mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) and high-risk math test scores of middle school students, which is noticeably slim in the domain of mathematics education, through a mediating process involving math-specific test anxiety and math self-efficacy. Using data from a sample of 45 students, age 12–13, we found empirical support for a significant positive correlation between mindfulness and middle school students’ math achievement. Participants listened to a mindfulness audio every other week before a mathematics test. Weekly mathematics test scores, student group discussion data, and in-depth interview data were analyzed to explore how mindfulness affected students’ mathematics test performance, which showed a statistically significant improvement after mindfulness compared to mathematics achievement without the intervention. Our results indicate that mindfulness can relieve mathematics anxiety symptoms, including physiological manifestations, test-unrelated thinking and worries, and problem-solving obstacles caused by mathematics anxiety. Also, mindfulness, especially its non-judgmental attitude, positively affects students’ mathematical self-efficacy. The current research provides evidence of the mindfulness intervention’s efficacy for improving middle school mathematics test performance but also identifies the complexities of implementing it with large numbers of students.