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Glamour – Anxiety Can Seriously Mess With Your Judgment

Alicia H. Clark, PsyD — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 02:43:21 +0000

New research published by Cell Press suggests that anxiety can seriously mess with your judgment. The study found that people who suffer from anxiety disorders are less able to distinguish actual threat from situations that are uncomfortable or ambiguous. Instead, anxious people demonstrated overgeneralization, a tendency to think that once one bad thing happens, it will…

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Afraid of Change? 6 Ways to Embrace It

Alicia H. Clark, PsyD — Sat, 30 May 2015 19:25:25 +0000

We are afraid of change. It doesn’t matter if it is our neighbor’s house going on the market, an unknown event forced into our calendar, or the simple change of season requiring the perennial change of wardrobe and routine. Most of us don’t like change, and we seldom foresee its good side, even as it appears…

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Cited in Yahoo Health – Why Do So Many College Students Have Anxiety?

Alicia H. Clark, PsyD — Fri, 29 May 2015 15:07:59 +0000

I was pleased to help out on this great article addressing the increase of anxiety in college students. Why Do So Many College Students Have Anxiety by Korin Miller. Anxiety is that familiar sense of physical tension and worry that arises when we anticipate uncomfortable future circumstances that we believe are outside of our control. It can happen in…

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Bridging the Confidence Gap, Why Anxiety and Courage Matter by Dr. Alicia H. Clark – FindAPsychologist.org

Alicia H. Clark, PsyD — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 19:19:30 +0000

The Confidence Gap for women is gaining recognition in the media, and I believe has everything to do with women’s experience of anxiety and our practice of courage. I was honored to have had this article highlighted in the Psychologist Spotlight, which, “features stories, written by psychologists and psychologists-in-training, that reflect their outstanding research…

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Starting a New Job: Top Three Ways to Feel Confident – FindaPsychologist.org

Alicia H. Clark, PsyD — Thu, 15 May 2014 21:49:36 +0000

Starting a New Job: Top Three Ways to Feel Confident – Alicia H. Clark, PsyD …Along with the satisfaction and excitement of starting a new job comes the other side of the coin: The hesitations, the fears, and that uninvited – yet ever-present and overriding – feeling of anxiety. Everything’s going to be new –…

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Cited In Shape.com – Are You Suffering from Second Hand Stress?

Alicia H. Clark, PsyD — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 23:30:37 +0000

Stress can be contagious, and secondhand stress is the kind of stress that builds up when you spend time around others that are stressed. And it’s real. I was quoted in this fantastic piece by Cindy Kuzma about the phenomena of secondhand stress, and what we can do about it. Here are a few excerpts:…

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#BanBossy Too Narrow: Let’s Lean In to Help Girls Learn Courage

Alicia H. Clark, PsyD — Sat, 15 Mar 2014 14:45:46 +0000

Earlier this week, Sheryl Sandberg’s nonprofit, Lean In, together with the Girl Scouts of USA launched a public service campaign called #BanBossy. Celebrities and CEOs are joining the campaign vowing to ban use of the word “bossy,” a label believed to be so painful that fear of receiving it is at the root of girls’…

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Bouncing Back and Moving On

Alicia H. Clark, PsyD — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 23:20:12 +0000

Bouncing Back and Moving On Moderated Panel International Conference, Buenaventura, Panama. January 22, 2014. Highlights: Don’t we all hope, and even expect, that if we study hard at school, work hard in the career we’ve chosen, and trust our choices, success will follow success in a linear fashion; that these efforts and decisions will insulate us from…

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Cited in CFA Institute Magazine – The Inefficient Frontier: Work Life Balance

Alicia H. Clark, PsyD — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 21:20:31 +0000

The Inefficient Frontier: Work Life Balance. How can busy professional manage the competing priorities of a full life? By Lori Pizzani. I was asked about keys to achieving better Work Life Balance for The CFA Institute Magazine, an institute dedicated to serving all finance professionals seeking education, knowledge, professional development, connection, or inspiration. As busy professionals,…

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The Final Holiday Stretch

Alicia H. Clark, PsyD — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 01:00:46 +0000

The week leading up to Christmas and New Years is the final stretch of busy holiday planning that remains before we can begin celebrating. In her post, How to Stay Productive During the Holidays, Patricia Rivera sums up a few key strategies to optimize productivity at work when we are surrounded by so many distractions. “Harnessing…

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