This week Ralph and Jim have two guests – Mia Dante and Kristin Cooper - neuropsychology students from Central Michigan University. They help us to understand the function of these cells that for 100 years have just been thought of as “glue’ to hold neurons in place.

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From Science Friday:

https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/glial-cells-important-as-neurons/

Pictures of Glia cells:

https://www.shutterstock.com/search/glia

Continuing Education for Health Providers

Implicit Bias Training

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Ralph and Jim are expanding into YouTube

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Here is our first video:

https://editor.flixier.com/home/exports/89c1c2e7-52e3-4df6-9dd8-9df9f4b37fa9

Continuing Education for Health Providers

Implicit Bias Training

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• And click on Continuing Education: Clinicians. That takes you to the page where you will see: Continuing Education and Outreach Services by Jim Carroll, EDD and Ralph Baber, MA. Call 989-779-8999 for classes or visit https://ronan-ce-academy.getlearnworlds.com

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Ralph takes a ‘generosity’ test. He scores in a similar manner to most people who have taken the test. The results suggest that he is generous, but not at his own expense. Note too, the self-serving aspects of some scenarios.

Jim and Ralph discuss various factors related to generosity.

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This podcast was based on “Infectious Generosity” by TED leader Chris Anderson. On pages 200 – 203 he presents a Long-view Philanthropy plan for curing many of the world’s greatest challenges over the next ten years. The book is a good read and it is available on Amazon.

 Continuing Education for Health Providers

Human trafficking, or trafficking in persons, is modern-day slavery It is a crime that involves the unwilling exploitation of people for labor or sex.

Ralph and Jim have created a continuing education course which addresses the four guidelines for professional listening health and mental health care providers, namely:

The course features

For more information and registration go to: https://www.ronanpsych.com/

• And click on Continuing Education: Clinicians. That takes you to the page where you will see: Continuing Education and Outreach Services by Jim Carroll, EDD and Ralph Baber, MA. Call 989-779-8999 for classes or visit https://ronan-ce-academy.getlearnworlds.com

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Jim and Ralph are joined by memory expert Hajami Otani to look at this strange and fascinating aspect of human memory.

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How does memory work?

https://youtu.be/4tfh7vs0MIc?feature=shared

 Continuing Education for Health Providers

Human trafficking, or trafficking in persons, is modern-day slavery It is a crime that involves the unwilling exploitation of people for labor or sex.

Ralph and Jim have created a continuing education course which addresses the four guidelines for professional listening health and mental health care providers, namely:

The course features

For more information and registration go to: https://www.ronanpsych.com/

• And click on Continuing Education: Clinicians. That takes you to the page where you will see: Continuing Education and Outreach Services by Jim Carroll, EDD and Ralph Baber, MA. Call 989-779-8999 for classes or visit https://ronan-ce-academy.getlearnworlds.com

This will get you to the page where you can see the available courses and sign –up.

We hope you enjoyed the audio and we invite you to take this and other courses that we offer!!!

n this podcast Ralph makes the case for the importance of happiness. But what is happiness. Martin Seligman would say that it is enjoyment, involvement or flow and meaning. As you listen, think about the things in your world, whether that is your job, family or social network that creates happiness for you.

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This article in Psychology Today investigates the various dimensions of happiness: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/happiness

In this Ted Talk Canadian, Tia Graham, tells how she and her family healed from the trauma of divorce and she shares “the simple secret of being happier: https://youtu.be/gYeHV_nA36c?feature=shared

Human trafficking, or trafficking in persons, is modern-day slavery It is a crime that involves the unwilling exploitation of people for labor or sex.

Ralph and Jim have created a continuing education course which addresses the four guidelines for professional listening health and mental health care providers, namely:

The course features

For more information and registration go to: https://www.ronanpsych.com/

• And click on Continuing Education: Clinicians. That takes you to the page where you will see: Continuing Education and Outreach Services by Jim Carroll, EDD and Ralph Baber, MA. Call 989-779-8999 for classes or visit https://ronan-ce-academy.getlearnworlds.com

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We hope you enjoyed the audio and we invite you to take this and other courses that we offer!!!

One of the most difficult categories of emotional disturbance to successfully treat. It ranks right up there with major depression and PTSD. Recent research findings disused by Jim and Ralph give hope for sufferers’.

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Cameron’s Ted Talk stresses ”being yourself”; https://youtu.be/KM4Xe6Dlp0Y?si=ZJTh0C4GfFsSi-pl

For more on The Hero’s Journey, watch: https://youtu.be/d1Zxt28ff-E?si=dcqBG_qcc7BRq4Xr

You Tube Ted Talks Eating Disorders with Dr. Hill: https://youtu.be/UEysOExcwrE?si=7m0RhTBvEQeobe1T

Continuing Education for Health Providers

Human trafficking, or trafficking in persons, is modern-day slavery It is a crime that involves the unwilling exploitation of people for labor or sex.

Ralph and Jim have created a continuing education course which addresses the four guidelines for professional listening health and mental health care providers, namely:

1. Understanding the types and venues of human trafficking in the United States.

The course features

For more information and registration go to: https://www.ronanpsych.com/

• And click on Continuing Education: Clinicians. That takes you to the page where you will see: Continuing Education and Outreach Services by Jim Carroll, EDD and Ralph Baber, MA. Call 989-779-8999 for classes or visit https://ronan-ce-academy.getlearnworlds.com

This will get you to the page where you can see the available courses and sign –up.

We hope you enjoyed the audio and we invite you to take this and other courses that we offer!!!

New treatments for anxiety, depression and PTSD – first in a series

Jim and Ralph look at the ground swell of data emerging on the benefits of psychedelics for mental health treatment. In the sixties we were told that drugs like LSD or “magic mushrooms” would lead to nightmarish hallucination with recurring flash backs. The War on Drugs certainly put research on hold. But 50 years later psychedelics are getting looked at anew.

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Therapeutic Uses of Psychedelic doses

https://youtu.be/abr6CqbNdM4?si=0dd0hhFtoJbPZj6e

How Psychedelics Change the Brain

https://youtu.be/pKR-jvGlkNg?si=In4O8-SQ3I2TFN-Q

https://youtu.be/KkIXevEsupQ?si=oOcNJcDLI_IRxyL-

Announcing

Continuing Education opportunities for health care professional: Record Keeping

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Legal and Ethical Obligations in Record Keeping

Documentation Standards

Avoiding Bias in Record Keeping

Responding to Subpoenas and Legal Requests 

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Well, now that winter seems to past over the middle part of our state people are emerging from hibernation.

Children who have been glued to their electronic devices for the last 6 months running, jumping and kicking balls.

Ralph is on assignment this week, but SPECIAL GUEST, Sheila Carroll, discusses the behavioral, emotional and cognitive effects of getting out the house and interacting with each other in the great out-of-doors.

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Why children need to play in nature: https://youtu.be/Os0fJhHHHiA?feature=shared

Quotes from Last Child in the Woods: https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3210060-last-child-in-the-woods-saving-our-children-from-nature-deficit-disorde

Today Ralph and Jim again talk with I/O psychologist Cassie Stockner about workplace issues. They look at the work of Hackman and Oldham's (1974) whose  job characteristics model suggested that five core job dimensions affect certain personal and work related outcomes, including job satisfaction. The five core job dimensions identified are autonomy, feedback, skill variety, task identity, and task significance.

We look at the Volvo model of job design; 85% of employees would recommend working at Volvo Group to a friend and 77% have a positive outlook for the business. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months. That did not sound like Johnny Paycheck to us.

Seligman’s work with the three types of happiness was reviewed.

We are sorry for the couple of technical glitches in the last podcast. Jim and Ralph got their broadcasting start on live radio in Canada and they have no editing skills!!!

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This is what Martin Seligman said about psychology in general and happiness in particular in his Ted Talk: https://youtu.be/9FBxfd7DL3E?feature=shared

How to think clearly the thoughts of Marcus Aralias https://youtu.be/HekZLSZ2mpU?si=LdbZTcYUEAWD1EIY

Don’t be lazy: https://youtu.be/bsH6BaXkwn8?si=ZMaV7VPRrh8V8LTf

Announcing

Continuing Education opportunities for health care professional: Record Keeping

Topics include:

Legal and Ethical Obligations in Record Keeping

Documentation Standards

Avoiding Bias in Record Keeping

Responding to Subpoenas and Legal Requests

For more information and registration go to: https://www.ronanpsych.com/

• And click on Continuing Education: Clinicians. That takes you to the page where you will see: Continuing Education and Outreach Services by Jim Carroll, EDD and Ralph Baber, MA. Call 989-779-8999 for classes or visit https://ronan-ce-academy.getlearnworlds.com

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Ralph and Jim are joined by psychologist Cassie Stockner as they explore dimensions of job conflict. But is conflict all bad? Walter Lipman said “Where all think alike, no one thinks very much." So it might have a positive side!!!

When it comes to team work, it has been said, "The better able team members are to engage, speak, listen, hear, interpret, and respond constructively, the more likely their teams are to leverage conflict rather than be leveled by it." Runde and Flanagan

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Two songs were mentioned in the podcast, Take This Job and Shove it, by Johnny Paycheck: https://youtu.be/gj2iGAifSNI?si=uOqXrd23YlQQUXkR

and It’s five o’clock Somewhere, by Allen Jackson: https://youtu.be/BPCjC543llU?si=3yHXNTxebizqCXZc  Enjoy!!!

Short video on Employee conflict resolution: https://youtu.be/LR_DLCYqGnA?si=3Q9M9O_abY7VUlFQ

Announcing

Continuing Education opportunities for health care professional: Record Keeping

Topics include:

Legal and Ethical Obligations in Record Keeping

Documentation Standards

Avoiding Bias in Record Keeping

Responding to Subpoenas and Legal Requests

For more information and registration go to: https://www.ronanpsych.com/

• And click on Continuing Education: Clinicians. That takes you to the page where you will see: Continuing Education and Outreach Services by Jim Carroll, EDD and Ralph Baber, MA. Call 989-779-8999 for classes or visit https://ronan-ce-academy.getlearnworlds.com

This will get you to the page where you can see the available courses and sign –up.

We hope you enjoyed the audio and we invite you to take this and other courses that we offer!!