Abandonment
Why is the word “abandonment” so charged with meaning?
Abandonment is one of the most intense and complex human experiences, capable of activating deep and long-lasting...
Glossary Term: Mental health
Addiction
Why Are Substance Use Disorders a Global Health Challenge?
Substance use disorders are not simply personal “vices,” but chronic brain and behavioral conditions that intertwine...
Anxiety
INDEX
A Neuroscientific and Psychopedagogical Definition
What Are the Symptoms of Anxiety?
What Causes Anxiety?
A Neuroscientific and Psychopedagogical Definition
Anxiety is...
Bereavement
INDEX
How can we define grief?
What are the reaction patterns to a traumatic loss?
Why is it important to raise awareness about grief
What can be done to support those...
Burnout
INDEX
What is Burnout (syndrome)?
How does it manifest and what are the possible consequences?
What are the causes?
Which professions are most affected?
How to recover from...
Competition
Evolutionary engine or wellbeing trap?
Competition is one of the most pervasive attitudes in human life. We encounter it in sports, work, school, social relationships, and even...
Coping
INDEX
What coping is Coping strategies
What coping is
Coping is the ability to face and manage stress, challenges, and life difficulties by implementing a series of...
Depression
INDEX
What are the symptoms of depression?
Depression in Italy
The World Health Organization (WHO), on the occasion of World Health Day 2017 dedicated to the topic of...
Focused Attention Meditation (FAM)
INDEX
What is Focused Attention Meditation?
Neuroscientific research on Focused Attention Meditation: electrophysiological correlates
Benefits
What is Focused Attention...
Friendship
The centrality of friendship in adolescence
Adolescence is a stage of life characterized by tumultuous changes, both physical and emotional. In this complex scenario,...
Mental health
What is meant by mental health?
According to the World Health Organization, mental health can be defined as:
…a state of psychological well-being that allows people to...
Motivation
Motivation: a scientific perspective
Motivation is a fundamental aspect of psychology and human behavior. It represents the drive that guides us to perform specific actions,...
Narcissism
What is Narcissism?
“Narcissism” is a term derived from the Greek myth of Narcissus, a remarkably handsome young man who fell hopelessly in love with his own reflection in a...
Organizational well-being
INDEX
What is meant by Organizational Well-being? Organizational Well-being and Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
What is meant by Organizational Well-being?
...
Overthinking
INDEX
What do we mean by overthinking? What are its symptoms? What are the possible causes? How can we tell if we suffer from overthinking? How to stop this type of mental...
Panic attacks
INDEX
When Fear Takes Over
What Are Panic Attacks?
What Are the Symptoms of a Panic Attack?
What Are Its Possible Causes?
How to Stop a Panic Attack?
How Are Panic Attacks...
Parental burnout
INDEX
What Parental Burnout Is
Symptoms of Parental Burnout
Spread of the Phenomenon
Learning and Preventing Parental Burnout
What Parental Burnout Is
The term...
Psychological discomfort
INDEX
What is meant by psychological distress?
The main types of psychological distress
What causes psychological distress?
How to tell if we have psychological distress?
Some...
Psychosocial well-being
“Health is not a feeling, but a being there, a being in the world, a being with other people and being actively and positively engaged in the particular tasks of life.” (H.G....
Resilience
What is meant by resilience?
According to the American Psychological Association, resilience is: “the process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging...
Self-awareness
INDEX
What is meant by self-awareness?
The perspective of Pedagogy for the Third Millennium
How can self-awareness be developed?
What is meant by self-awareness?
The term...
Solastalgia
A new form of psychological distress: what is solastalgia
‘Solastalgia’ is a relatively new term in the field of psychology and mental health, coined to describe a form of...
Stigma
How can we define stigma?
Stigma toward mental health can be defined as prejudice and arbitrary evaluation of an individual characteristic in a demeaning way, with the more...
Stress
What is stress?
From a clinical perspective, stress is a physiological and psychological reaction of our body to a situation that puts it under pressure. It is a natural...
Suicide
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