Posted on 11/02/2018 by Bethany L. Brand, Hugo J. Schielke, Paul Frewen, Ruth Lanius and Richard J. Loewenstein
Dissociative disorders (DDs) are not rare. The lifetime prevalence of DDs ranges from approximately 9 to 18 percent, with the most severe DD, dissociative identity disorder (DID), occurring in at least 1 percent of the general population (Sar, 2011). Despite this, DDs are underdiagnosed and undertreated.
Posted on 11/01/2018 by Ashlee Warnecke, PhD
Recent research indicates that up to 85 percent of open job positions are filled through networking, and up to 70 percent of job positions are filled before ever being posted (Adler, 2016; Belli, 2017). Although much of this information is derived from the business profession, researchers across professions are increasingly using websites such as LinkedIn to survey and track information regarding networking, expanding the applicability of these striking statistics to fields outside of business such as psychology.
Posted on 11/01/2018 by Josianne Lamothe
Client violence poses a significant challenge to professionals in the fields of health care and social services. According to two systematic reviews, anywhere from 2 to 32 percent of healthcare workers and 2 to 34 percent of child protection workers will be physically assaulted by a patient/client at least once over the course of one year (Pompeii, Dement, Schoenfisch, Lavery, Souder, Smith, & Lipscomb, 2013; Robson, Cossar, & Quayle, 2014).