History of Mental Illness Treatment: An Infographic

I receive a daily infographic from http://dailyinfographic.com/. Some offerings I skip over since the content is outside my interests. Yesterday, however, I found this little beauty entitled, Electroshock Therapy and Other Ways We Treat Mental Illness [infographic]."It includes trepanning, phrenology, repression, asylums, lobotomies, bloodletting and more.

I will definitely be using this graphic as an intro and context setting for when I teach disorders and treatment next. There is excellent overview with details that can be filled in by the researcher or the experienced psych teacher. It does get larger with re-sizing your browser settings.

The direct link to the post is here: http://dailyinfographic.com/electroshock-therapy-and-the-other-ways-we-treat-mental-illness-infographic
-- posted by Chuck Schallhorn

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Infographic on Hearing and Decibels

Was doing some other research/demo for students and discovered this little gem.

The actual infographic can be found at this link:
http://dailyinfographic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/hearing-loss-infographic1.jpg

The entire article from DailyInfographic can be found here:
http://dailyinfographic.com/hearing-loss-infographic-2/hearing-loss-infographic-3



posted by Chuck Schallhorn

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Depression: An Amazing Infographic

I was doing some reading on Twitter last night and found this excellent infographic at this site: http://www.gmeded.com/gme-info-graphics/major-depression.  Its size is quite large so you may need to open the image in a new tab to view it correctly.
Original image is here: http://www.gmeded.com/files/styles/infographic/public/major-depression.jpg 

posted by Chuck Schallhorn

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A Headache Infographic

It seems that every semester, students assume that since I know about the mind and brain, I also know about headaches.  I do--I have a great poster I pull out and share.  But today I ran across this infographic that was pretty cool.  The Mount Sinai Hospital put this together back in 2011, but it contains some great info.  Enjoy.

Link for the graphic iteself:  http://dailyinfographic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/HEADACHE.Infographic704.jpg

Link for the post on DailyInfographic
http://dailyinfographic.com/headaches-infographic/headache-infographic704

 Posted by Chuck Schallhorn

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Infographic: Brain Injury Explained

From our friends over at DailyInfographic,  we have an overview of brain injuries in the U.K.  Their original post can be found at this link: http://dailyinfographic.com/brain-injury-explained-infographic

Infographics can be a great way to share information with students or have them create the infographic themselves.

Open the graphic in a new window or download to see all the details.

 posted by Chuck Schallhorn

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Bipolar Disorder: An Amazing Infographic

I was doing some reading on Twitter last night and found this excellent infographic at this site: http://www.gmeded.com/gme-info-graphics/bipolar-disorder.  Its size is quite large so you may need to open the image in a new tab to view it correctly.

Original image is here: http://www.gmeded.com/files/styles/infographic/public/V.3.Bipolar.jpg 

posted by Chuck Schallhorn

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Infographics: Critical thinking opportunity!

I love good data representation, and some infographics are good examples of data represented well. On the other hand, some infographics I run across worry me - I'm often uncertain about whether the research findings being presented include enough information for people to be able to understand/think about those research findings.

Which makes me think: maybe a good use of infographics in a psych classroom is actually as the basis of a critical thinking exercise!

Some potential examples:

• a person named Nora McAdams sent me an example via email called "Is the Future of Counseling and Therapy Online?" http://www.bestcounselingdegrees.net/online/ . An impressive infographic, I was looking for information from outcome studies about relative effectiveness of online therapy and didn't find it here. Maybe students could research that!
• if you search for psychology infographics online you'll find a LOT of long lists of them, and any of these might be great opportunities for students to "fact check" and think critically http://infographiclist.com/tag/psychology/
• we've posted many psychology infographics on the blog before http://teachinghighschoolpsychology.blogspot.com/search?q=infographic
• Some of them are just funny/cute - this one about the (somewhat discredited?) MBPI personality test and Hogwarts cracked me up http://teachinghighschoolpsychology.blogspot.com/2013/09/harry-potter-and-myers-briggs.html

Last note: if you haven't heard of Edward Tufte, he's an amazing designer who thinks deeply about ways to present data in elegant and compelling ways. Definitely worth a look. http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/







posted by Rob McEntarffer

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Music, the Brain, and Learning: An Infographic

DailyInfographic does it again.  This psych-related graphic is about music and learning.  Here is the link to the original post: http://dailyinfographic.com/how-to-control-your-dreams-infographic.  I am curious about the science behind the conclusions--perhaps students could research what data is out there.

posted by Chuck Schallhorn

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Celebrities and Personality Types

More Infographics--what can I say?  I get these emails and many connect to psych.  Here is one that uses the Myers-Briggs Jungian personality types (16 of them), and matches them up with various famous people.  As I've mentioned before, I am very wary of the MBTI and its validity, but this could be used for a fun activity.

The original post is here:
http://dailyinfographic.com/famous-personality-types-infographic?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DailyInfographic+%28Daily+Infographic%29

Apologies if this does not fit in your browser properly.

posted by Chuck

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Lucid Dreaming: An Infographic

Another psych find from our friends at http://dailyinfographic.com/.  Their original post can be found here:
http://dailyinfographic.com/how-to-control-your-dreams-infographic

Download or open the graphic in a new window to view it in detail.  This one has a nice sleep stage diagram.  One question I would have is not about lucid dreaming, but about the foods and implications of lucid dreaming.  I have had them on occasion, but have not made a habit of it.  I suspect that this would be a great attention grabber for students.

posted by Chuck Schallhorn

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Online Counseling Infographic

This infographic was shared with me.  With the rise of online sources of psychological assistance, it may be helpful to keep up with the trend.
http://www.topcounselingschools.org/online-counseling/

posted by Chuck Schallhorn

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Grammar and Its Impact

For those who know me, I am a bit of a grammarian.  I can be annoying with all my pointing out of, what to me, are obvious errors.  I emphasize grammar and writing in my classes, much to the consternation of my students.  I endeavor to write posts free from mistakes.  On this note, a wonderful site called Grammarly was shared with me by Nikolas Baron.

Psychologically, the way we write matters to our respective audiences, whether they are friends, family, teachers, or employers.  So imagine my happiness when I read this infographic.  I was very pleased to see it.  The data in the infographic comes from research conducted with over 400 freelance writers.  Of course, have the patience and perseverance to do grammar and writing checks means that these folks are likely higher in the conscientiousness scale of the OCEAN (Big Five) personality test.

To that end, Grammerly also has a grammar checker online.  Check it out. I ran this post through the service after a brief log in.  It is available as a Chrome plugin.  Very cool.

posted by Chuck Schallhorn

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Harry Potter and the Myers-Briggs???

Yup.  Someone went and did that and turned it into an infographic.  Check it out at this link:
http://dailyinfographic.com/harry-potter-myers-briggs-chart-infographic.  While I am not a fan of the MBTI, it is very well-known and can be a nice intro into testing and the 16 types that were created.  Have fun all you Potter fans!

posted by Chuck Schallhorn

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The Secret to Better Sleep: An Infographic

As I get older, my sleep patterns keep changing and I am finding that a complete night's sleep is very elusive.  Sometimes I have early sleep, some time awake and some late sleep.  Napping is always a welcome part of my day.  I receive a daily email about infographics.  A recent one is below (http://dailyinfographic.com/the-secret-to-better-sleep-infographic).  You can find/subscribe to them here:  http://dailyinfographic.com/.  In an upcoming post, I will share some online tools to creating your own infographics.

posted by Chuck Schallhorn

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Hidden Within Symbols

Quick post on a repeat topic, but here are many logos all in one place from our friends at Daily Infographic:

You can find their post here: http://dailyinfographic.com/40-brand-logos-with-hidden-messages-infographic

I could not embed the picture, so do take a look at it from their site.


posted by Chuck Schallhorn

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Color, Advertising and Psychology

I've always had students question me about the psychology of color, but I've never had any resources.  Today, while reading tweets, I ran across this article (which I retweeted, of course):  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brian-honigman/psychology-color-design-infographic_b_2516608.html

It's an infographic that illustrates and describes the meanings of colors and how they are used with particular products.  If this is accurate, it is very cool.  If anyone has other resources, please share in the comments section.

posted by Chuck Schallhorn
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Infographic on Trends in Psychology

Link for .pdf file of this poster

posted by Chuck Schallhorn

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Mental Health and the Internet

Quick post with an infographic. The chart is so large, there is no way to display it properly here, but here is a small version. Click the link above for a great shot of the details.

posted by Chuck Schallhorn

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The Psychology of Fight Club: An inforgraphic

Most of us cannot show R-rated movies to our students, but will occasionally recommend them.  Fight Club is one such example. Lots of psychology and social commentary, but also lots of language, violence, and sexuality.  While the movie is not showable in class, this graphic is.  Here is an infographic taking us through the movie that was shared with me recently. I love the way it takes us through the movie and book and describes the steps of the various changes.

http://www.topcounselingschools.org/the-psychology-of-fight-club/

The sizing of the graphic does not work on this blog--no worries--click the link above or this link to see it properly.
http://www.topcounselingschools.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/fight-club.jpg

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Speaking of Infographics--Mental Illness

I found this one on Tumblr recently.  Yesterday's post by Rob reminded me to post this one as well.  It's not the greatest infographic, but it has some key information about mental illness that will be good for the high school teacher.  What are below are four separate images dealing with the science of mental illness.

The post was from an account called Neuromorphogenesis.  The poster has some fascinating links and photos.  As of this date, there are some cool pictures of subdural hematomas and the arachnoid layer being lifted off the brain.  The link for the post on the graphics below is here.
http://neuromorphogenesis.tumblr.com/post/81141031221/the-science-of-mental-illness?utm_medium=email&utm_source=html&utm_campaign=weekly_top_posts_subject_2&utm_term=post_81141031221

posted by Chuck Schallhorn

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