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Dismissing the “Human Experience”: College Students Feel Unseen by the Medical Model of Mental Health

Mad in America

Students are increasingly encouraged to interpret themselves through a medical lens, defining their problems as symptoms of official diagnoses while treating them with psychotropic medication or therapy. Actually, there are real, material reasons why things are bad in the world, and that really contributes to mental health problems.”

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How to Launch (and Maintain) a Successful E-Commerce Business

Success

When I read it in 2015, I was working both a full-time government job and launching a side business that would eventually eat up 80 hours of my week. A value proposition clearly tells someone who visits your website or gets stuck in an elevator with you: How you will solve their problem. No problem. Watch anywhere.

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my boss keeps pretending to punch me in the groin, my reference got a weird phone call, and more

Ask a Manager

” If that doesn’t solve it or if you want to skip that step, go over his head. The company hasn’t contacted me again since, so this may not even be a dilemma that needs solving. I currently work as a government grants administrator, and am leisurely searching for another position. If you have corporate HR, go there.

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Science Alone Is Not Enough

WELCOA

Yes, we need science to inform, to diagnose and to problem solve, but we need art to move people. And, as every advertiser knows, it’s emotions that sell products and build tribes. We could positively change the health and well-being for people in every nation, in every community, in every workplace, and in every team.

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Unlocking the digital frontier: hiring the next generation of tech talent

Workplace Insight

At the same time, when you engage digital natives you are likely to be adding significant problem-solving skills to your team, as well as genuine passion for their chosen field. They will also likely be intensely interested in issues surrounding environmental sustainability, and have an enthusiasm for engaging with other cultures.

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how to disinvite an intern from our trivia team, I was told to take a week off unpaid due to someone else’s health, and more

Ask a Manager

Can you be straightforward with him about the problems? For over a decade now, I’ve worked in payroll in HR departments across the Canadian federal government. But your employer could have solved the whole thing by covering your pay that second week, and they should have. If I don’t reply for 2.5

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Ask a Manager speed round

Ask a Manager

I’ve always felt that it’s a problem if a manager doesn’t feel bad about it. Any tips on how I can be a helpful and supportive parent as he seeks an internship in his degree field and later a post-college job, rather than “that problem parent” we are all so familiar with from past letters?