Search results for : Psychologists

Showing 121 to 130 of 352 results

News Article
October 04, 2018
Fourteen Percent of the Global Burden of Disease Attributed to Mental, Neurological and Substance Abuse Disorders

Minister of Health Dr. the Hon. Duane Sands said according to the World Health Organization, 14 per cent of the global burden of disease is attributed to mental, neurological and substance abuse disorders...

read more »


News Article
October 03, 2018
Teens Feel the Pressure

Psychologist brings important, overlooked mental health issue to the fore...A growing number of teens are suffering in silence having come to believe that stress and high-risk behaviors are normal, according to Dr Valerie Knowles...

read more »


News Article
Restore Store Hope
News Article
August 29, 2018
Restore Store Hope

?Camp Hope? summer camp was founded this year for children and teenagers known to have suffered mentally from some form of life trauma...

read more »


News Article
May 28, 2018
Duho Launches Spring Collection

Duho Books, the boutique press founded by Bahamian writer Wendy Coakley-Thompson has launched its Spring collection.Three new titles are now available on Amazon.com. They include: The Left-Over Daughters by Grand Bahamian writer S. L. Sheppard; My Name Is Karma: Journey to the Truth by psychologist turned author, N.A. Cash; and the re-release of Coakley-Thompson?s acclaimed 2005 novel What You Wo...

read more »


News Article
April 10, 2018
Dr. David Allen Delivers Guest Lecturers at Hong Kong University, Takes Message of Connection between Shame, Anger, Violence Halfway Round the Globe

Dr. David Allen was just a young boy when he first heard about messages from The Bahamas. In those days, the message came by way of a post card with a picture of a beach under shining sun...

read more »


News Article
March 02, 2018
Atlantis Casino "Change for Change" for Charity Programme donates to The Bahamas Crisis Center

The Casino division at Atlantis, Paradise Island recently presented a cheque donation to The Bahamas Crisis Center as part of the division?s ?Change for Change? charity programme. The initiative gives casino patrons the option to donate their TITO slot tickets to a designated charity...

read more »


News Article
February 06, 2018
National Security Partners with Community Organizations and UB, as well as other Government Agencies

Minister of National Security the Hon. Marvin Dames, said as it related to gangs and gang violence, his Ministry has partnered with Dr. David Allen and his team of experts of the ?People Helping People? programme...

read more »


News Article
February 05, 2018
AG addresses panel discussion on the Marital Rape Bill

Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Senator the Hon. Carl Bethel was the key speaker in a panel discussion on ?Marital Rape ? Is It a Blow to Family Life,? Tuesday evening at Bahamas Press Club?s Speaker?s Corner at JCN Studios...

read more »


News Article
January 29, 2018
Press Club Speaker's Corner on Marital Rape

The Bahamas Press Club is staging its first Speaker?s Corner event on Tuesday, January 30, 2018, at JCN Studios on Thompson Boulevard at 6:30pm...

read more »


News Article
November 27, 2017
Workshop Explores Ways to Improve Children's Learning and Behavior

The importance of executive function skills for children was recently highlighted in a workshop hosted by Family Medicine Center. Sarah Ward, a renowned expert on the topic of executive functioning, provided simple, practical strategies and tools for teaching children how to develop independent executive function skills...

read more »