- 11Feb2016
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Workplace Well-Being: a practical guide
- By Ian Bradley
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The stats are grim: 70% of working Americans cited work as a significant source of stress (American Psychological Association, 2012a) 41% of employees reported that they typically feel tense or stressed during the workday (American Psychological Association, 2012b) The contributing factors are many but those most often cited include: Low salaries, lack of opportunities for
- 03Feb2016
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Medical Leaves and Mustard Plasters (con’t)
- By Ian Bradley
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In my previous post, I made the point that although the family physician provides the official “time-off-work-for stress” letter, the principal decision-maker is the patient. I argued that most workers under stress debate the pro’s and con’s of setting the medical leave in motion very much like we all did as children when awakening with
- 14Dec2015
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Medical Leaves and Muster Plasters
- By Ian Bradley
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It’s 7 am on a rainy February day in the middle of week when I’m 10 years old and just waking up with a detectable, and if amplified, quite apparent scratchy throat. As a university professor with a private practice in workplace psychology, that specific day is very much in the past. However, I
- 25Nov2015
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The Angst of Graduate School Applications
- By Ian Bradley
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In my undergraduate McGill class of very bright psychology majors, we were pleasantly diverted from the regular cognitive behavior therapy topic of the day to talk about undergraduate education in Psychology. My own career experience rests much more with internship training of doctoral-level students in clinical psychology, however I was eager to hear what the
- 22Nov2015
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College Rankings
- By Ian Bradley
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The Economist magazine has a great calculator to estimate the added economic value of attending a particular university. By developing a regression equation that uses a range of student, college and geographical data to predict the subsequent earnings of each graduate, one can easily search the table to find whether a particular institution is above or
- 18Nov2015
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Personality, Big Data and Marketing
- By Ian Bradley
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Can the mining of big date effectively tailor political or advertising communication to match basic personality dimensions in a target audience. In other words, if you’re a voter, who is extraverted and therefore someone who values assertiveness and positive emotions, can the product or political message be tailored to your own personality. A pioneering company
- 13Sep2015
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Undergraduate CBT Course Syllabus 2015
- By Ian Bradley
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Course Outline Principles of CBT Fall 2015 McGill University Psych 408 Dr Ian Bradley (ian.bradley@mcgill.ca)
- 22Sep2014
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Beware of psychological advice
- By Ian Bradley
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There’s an old joke applied to many disciplines, certainly to my field of psychology: Why does the university routinely amputate the right hand of each newly graduated doctoral student? -Because then the newly minted psychologist will never be able to say: “on the one hand and on the other…” I was reminded of some
- 07Sep2014
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McGill Psychology 408 Syllabus 2014
- By Ian Bradley
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Course Outline Principles of CBTFall 2014 Psych 408 Dr Ian Bradley (ian.bradley@mcgill.ca) Time and Location: FridaysLeacock 1098:30 – 11:30 Textbook: Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Core Principles for Practice by William T. O’Donohue (Editor), Jane E. Fisher (Editor) July 2012, Hardcover (E-book also available) Introduction: My goal is to introduce the student to the
- 25Aug2014
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Ethics ( cont ); Lessons in Management, Part VIII
- By Ian Bradley
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In my previous post, I described the organizational structure that allowed our hospital’s department of psychology to develop and manage mental health programs that directly served the public. These were delivered directly by psychologists working in the Department of Psychology and not on multidisciplinary team. I also outlined the threats to the maintenance of this