Episodes
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Practicing Gratitude
Gratitude: It can make you happier, healthier and improve your relationships. Dr. Shilagh Mirgain, a psychologist from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, shares with us how to maintain a successful gratitude practice and how science demonstrates its benefits....
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Examining Income Inequality in the U.S.
Why is it getting greater? How serious is this problem? What can be done to close the income gap and reduce poverty? Dick’s guest, Dr. Tim Smeeding, a distinguished Professor of Economics & Public Policy and Director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,...
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Sports Psychology
What makes us choke, be it in golf, tennis or whatever sport is yours? How can we use our mind to optimize our sport and rid ourselves of performance anxiety? Dick’s guest, Dr. Kris Eiring, is a former college track star who now specializes in sports psychology in her private practice as well as...
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Cross-Cultural Conversations
Two University of Wisconsin-Madison therapists and teachers of multiculturalism help us learn how to be sensitive and more skilled when talking to people of different cultures, color or ethnicity. Psychologist Monika Gutkowska and social worker Amanda Ngola are Dick’s guests.
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Learning Disabilities 101
What are learning disabilities? How common are they? How do they affect lives? Can they be successfully treated? Dick’s guests, psychologists Dr. Nira Scherz-Busch and Dr. Dennis Christoffersen, have more than 50 years of combined experience helping their clients with learning disabilities…
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Impaired Physicians
About 10% of doctors struggle with addiction to alcohol and drugs at some point in their career. How does this affect their skills and their patients? What are the protocols to force them to get help? How likely are doctors to recover when they enter treatment? Dick’s guest, Dr. Michael Miller…
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Dealing with Difficult People
Learn who the most challenging types of people are, methods that apply in dealing with them and how to avoid making bad situations worse. Dick’s guest, Dr. Beth Jennings, helps us with the non-stop talker, the mean boss, the person always in a dither and many others. Her classifications for...
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What's Wrong with Jails in America?
Why are jails overcrowded? Who are these inmates? What are the new promising alternatives to incarceration? Dick's guest is Dane County Sheriff Dave Mahoney, who for the past seven years among other duties, presided over a reduction of jail population from 1,300 down to 800. He serves on more…
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The School Shooter
Is there a specific profile? Why do they do it? What can be done to diminish the likelihood of these school shooting massacres in the future? Dick's guest, forensic psychologist, prolific author on predators and sex offenders and consultant to the Wisconsin Department of Corrections Dr. Anna...
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