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Ready for a Flexible Work Arrangement as a Parent? Here’s How to Negotiate Better Hours

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Jones had to adapt, negotiating flexibility into her role to survive and thrive. In a recent survey of 1,700 workplace parents conducted by Werklabs and The Mom Project, researchers wrote, “There are few words in our contemporary workplace lexicon that are more divisive than ‘flexible.’ Then, she had her child. But what does this mean?

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6 women on what they learned about starting a business in midlife

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Finding free time and freedom in midlife Judy Schoenberg and Linda Lautenberg started Evolve.Me—a career consultancy that works with midlife women seeking career pivots and reinvention—when Schoenberg was in her 40s and Lautenberg was in her 50s.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Six)

Mad in America

Nemeroff and Schatzberg declared 17 industry ties each: Dr. Nemeroff has been a consultant to or received honoraria from Abbott, AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Forest Laboratories, Janssen, Eli Lilly, Merck, Mitsubishi, Neurocrine Biosciences, Organon, Otsuka, Pfizer, Pharmacia–Upjohn, Sanofi, SmithKline Beecham, Solvay, and Wyeth–Ayerst.

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

Mad in America

In these interviews, I have talked about the components of the psychiatric-pharmaceutical-industrial complex, along with how psychiatry meets the political needs of the ruling class and dysfunctional families. million in consulting fees from drug makers from 2000 to 2007. Evolutionary geneticist R.C.

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Therapy by App: A Clinical Psychologist Tries BetterHelp

Mad in America

The first therapist I consulted, a gray-haired woman I’ll call Margaret, seemed ill at ease and unsure how to proceed from the outset. Like all three therapists I ultimately consulted, she held a master’s degree in social work. You really need support, help, consultation, peer consultation; these things are all important.”

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Why Japan wants its citizens to try a 4-day workweek

Work Life

Hoping to produce more takers, especially among small and medium-sized businesses, the government launched a “work style reform” campaign that promotes shorter hours and other flexible arrangements along with overtime limits and paid annual leave. Fast Retailing Co., and electronics companies Ricoh Co.

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Survivors and Families Working Together For Change: A New Project 

Mad in America

Typically, when consulting a medical professional, families are advised to accept a hopeless diagnosis that primarily attributes biological causes to the confounding behavior. To accomplish our goal of empowering families, we propose : To develop a flexible curriculum to be used in training facilitators in conducting no-cost family groups.