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The Utility of Mindfulness
A summary of what mindfulness is, how it is fostered in oneself, and why endeavoring to do so is worth the effort.
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Psychometric Testing in Mental Health Counseling
Psychometric Tests can measure many constructs, aptitudes, and levels of achievement. Within the Mental Health paradigm occupational assessments and personality assessments can be most useful.
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A Brief Comparison Between Theories of Intelligence
The Psychology that is used to buttress various theories of intelligence have a long and divergent history. Constructs can only be measured indirectly and debate on how to validly do so abounds.
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Mean, median, and Mode; Measuring Central Tendency and Skew in Bell Curves
When measuring a number of pieces of data, the numeric central tendency, can be expressed in one of three ways. The relationship of these three tendency's depends on the distribution of data.
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Bowen's Family Systems; A Primer on Family Counseling
Bowenian Family Systems therapy focuses around the early experiences within one's family of origin and how problems with present family dynamics stem from complications with personal differentiation.
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How to Use PEMA to Guide Order of Operations in Arithmetic Problems
When solving complex arithmetic expressions, the order in which you perform which functions is crucial in getting the correct answer. The acronym PEMA is a good mnemonic tool for these problems.
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How to Solve Word Problems Using , "Let Statements"
This is the second installment in my series of math problems that tend to trip people up. This time we will be using let statements and algebraic expressions to solve word problems.
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The Difference Between Objective and Subjective Data
Both social and physical sciences researchers distinguish between objective and subjective date this is a primer on the two types of evidence and the differences between them.
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Review of Human Development Themes Within Frank McCourt's "'Tis" Part 2
This is the second part to my review of Frank McCourt's, "'Tis" focusing on the Human Development themes pertaining to his early career and first marriage. Please see Part 1 if you have not already.
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Piaget and Child Cognitive Development
Though criticized as somewhat reductionist and overly codified, Piaget was the first developmental psychologist to postulate a series of cognitive stages through which children grow and develop.
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Communism Vs. Socialism; A Slippery Slope of Good Intentions?
A lucid argument can be made that we have never seen a truly Communist State as Marx envisioned it. What we see instead are Communist parties slipping into Socialism, Fascism, and despotism.
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Plato's Hostility Toward The Arts
Despite the Aesthetic sensibilities within his own writing style, Plato saw the Arts as potentially dangerous deformers of character. He proposes draconian means of controlling them in his Republic.
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Is The United States A Secular Democracy?
The U.S. was crafted to be the First Secular Democracy. It is arguably still the only Federalist Secular Democracy, at least in name and theory, but are these tenets honored in Washington, D.C.?
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Freud's Psychosexual Development and Erickson's Psychosocial Development
Erickson's expansion on Freudian development into his 8 stages of Psychosocial development expanded the theory of developmental stages from a process finished by adolescence to a lifelong process.
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The Socratic Method and Inductive vs. Deductive Reasoning
The Socratic Method (or the Elenctic method) refers to the dialectical method of questioning and analytical probing used by the Athenian Philosopher Socrates (469-399B.C.E.).
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Amphetamine Use in The Treatment of ADHD
Amphetamine use in the treatment of ADHA is controversial. This article explores the history and uses of Amphetamines. It probes the Biochemistry, side-effects, and alternatives to Amphetamines.
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Is The Concept of Sin Useful in Secular Morality?
Is sin a useful concept in a modern discussion of Ethics and Morality. Do we derive our sense of right and wrong from religion or does religion highjack it from our innate humanity.
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Hello,
My name is Adam Schwartz, I'd like to use this hubpage as a forum to examine political, social, and religious issues through the Philosophical lenses of logic and empiricism. I earned my Bachelor's degree in Philosophy from SUNY Stonybrook and obtained a Master's degree in Philosophy from the University of London where my concentrations were Political Philsophy, Philosophy of Religion, and Aesthetics. I'm currently pursuing a second graduate degree in Mental Health Therapy. Feel free to leave comments on anything I write, whether you agree or disagree, as long as your comment is phrased with relative amicability, I will approve it. I think such an exchange and interplay of ideas and perspectives is the highest ultility that the internet offers. Thanks for stopping by.