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What makes for a ‘good’ severance package?

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Fu points out that folks who have healthcare secured after getting laid off, like through an employed family member, can ask their employer to pay them the equivalent of their COBRA benefits directly in cash. In addition to medical benefits, employees can also ask for a continuation of certain bonuses.

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A Simple Workaround to Overcome the Bureaucratic Mindset

Tanveer Naseer

Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas. Playing the national security card didn’t help either.

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

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The concept has been slow to catch on, however; about 8% of companies in Japan allow employees to take three or more days off per week, while 7% give their workers the legally mandated one day off, according to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. Brokerage SMBC Nikko Securities Inc. Long hours are the norm. Fast Retailing Co.,

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Therapy by App: A Clinical Psychologist Tries BetterHelp

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I came away with serious concerns about BetterHelp’s ability to provide quality, secure treatment and, perhaps more troubling, its potential to destabilize the therapy profession. Two of the largest organizations representing therapists, the American Psychological Association and the National Association of Social Workers, took legal action.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 15: Withdrawal of Psychiatric Drugs

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135 One should never start psychiatric drug treatment without having a tapering plan, but no one taught doctors how to stop the drugs, whereas they have learned from their professors and the pharmaceutical industry when to start them and always to blame the disease for untoward symptoms, ignoring the troubles they have caused.

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Part 4: Neurodiversity: New Paradigm, or Trojan Horse?

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As we have seen, many people who identify as neurodivergent want a formal diagnosis in order to secure adjustments (at school, at college, in work). Its mischaracterisations of the work of the UK critics were so pronounced, and the personal slurs so extreme, that some were forced to seek legal advice.

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Over-stressing Stress: American Psychological Association Report Omits Oppression

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A recent example is the work of the medical anthropologist , James Davies, who details how medicalization, the ever-expanding use of pharmaceuticals, and a consumerist philosophy based in modern capitalism has depoliticized our mental distress while driving higher levels of suffering.

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