Posts tagged with 'hope'
The building up specific strengths exercise: a personal & practical exploration
22nd August 2016
"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man" Polonius in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" I have been writing a series of blog posts about character strengths - most recently "Twelve practical suggestions for exploring our character …
Recent research: eating disorders & PTSD, relationships & libido, and IBS
26th June 2008
Holzer, S. R., S. Uppala, et al. (2008). "Mediational significance of PTSD in the relationship of sexual trauma and eating disorders." Child Abuse Negl 32(5): 561-6. [PubMed] Mediational analysis suggests that sexual trauma often links to subsequent eating disorder via posttraumatic stress symptoms - particularly physiological arousal and avoidance. Therapeutically …