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Children’s Play
What is the purpose of play for children?
Why is it not always productive for a parent to push their children to talk?
What is meant by a teachable moment? How can a parent identify these moments?
What is the appropriate way to react to a child in a teachable moment? These questions answered by Dr Barry Ginsberg - A child and family psychologist. He is also the founder and director of Center of Relationship Enhancement
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Coordination in a Couple Relationship
Why is a couple relationship unique?
How can a couple’s relationship be compared to a dance?
Why is a couple relationship the most vulnerable to facing instability?
What is the primary goal of couple relationship enhancement therapy? These questions answered by Dr Barry Ginsberg - A child and family psychologist. He is also the founder and director of Center of Relationship Enhancement
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Men in Therapy
What is significant about the relationship between a father and son?
Why is this relationship often a source of dissatisfaction for men in therapy?
Why is adolescence a crucial time to enhance the relationship between a father and son?
What benefits have been seen from combining generations of fathers and sons in group therapy sessions? These questions answered by Dr Barry Ginsberg - A child and family psychologist. He is also the founder and director of Center of Relationship Enhancement
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Relationship Enhancement Therapy
What is Relationship Enhancement Therapy?
How is RE both an intervention and prevention approach to therapy?
In what way is RE based on important values?
What kinds of relationships are best suited to RE Therapy? These questions answered by Dr Barry Ginsberg - A child and family psychologist. He is also the founder and director of Center of Relationship Enhancement
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Filial Therapy
What is Filial Therapy?
What are the objectives of Filial Therapy?
What are the values of Filial therapy that make it a unique form of therapy?
What is the role of the therapist in Filial Therapy? These questions answered by Dr Barry Ginsberg - A child and family psychologist. He is also the founder and director of Center of Relationship Enhancement
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How to Score Nutrients
What is the Overall Nutritional Quality Index and why was it developed?
What is the guidance system that is suitable for people who wish to nutrient profile?
How does this guidance system influence purchase patterns?
Can this scoring system be used in place of a diet?
These questions answered by: Dr. David L. Katz: Founding director of Yale University’s Research Prevention Center and is board certified in Preventive Medicine and Public Health.
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Nutrient Profiling
What is nutrient profiling?
What is the purpose of profiling nutrients?
Who can most benefit from employing a nutrient profiling system in their diets?
These questions answered by: Dr. David L. Katz: Founding director of Yale University’s Research Prevention Center and is board certified in Preventive Medicine and Public Health.
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The Benefit of Phone Counselling
How does phone counselling work?
What kind of people with thrive from this process and who would benefit from face to face counselling? Is it age or gender specific?
In todays world of technology will online video counseling replace phone counselling?
What are the benefits of phone counselling as opposed to face to face counselling and what are the limitations?
Can phone counselling only be done one to one or can it be done in groups?
As with in person counselling are there requirements for the setting of the call?
These questions answered by: Kim Illig, Personal Spiritual director & certified as an intuitive counselor. She works with women & men who want to heal their lives, bodies, emotions & spirit & hopefully together learn, explore & head in a safe & sacred container.
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Working with Spiritual Advisors
What is a spiritual advisor?
What kind of people generally approach a spiritual advisor?
When someone works with a spiritual advisor long is it expected for the to stay with them?
What in your experience are the most common symptoms a client will approach you with?
What is the difference between the mind and the spirit?
These questions answered by: Kim Illig, Personal Spiritual director & certified as an intuitive counselor. She works with women & men who want to heal their lives, bodies, emotions & spirit & hopefully together learn, explore & head in a safe & sacred container.
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Courageous Decision Making
What does it mean for someone to be really courageous and does it mean more than its simple definition?
What kind of issues really require courageous decision making?
Could you describe the process one must take from beginning to end to make a courageous decision?
What are the attributes you would associate with a leader who makes tough decisions at difficult times?
These questions answered by: Kim Illig, Personal Spiritual director & certified as an intuitive counselor. She works with women & men who want to heal their lives, bodies, emotions & spirit & hopefully together learn, explore & head in a safe & sacred container.
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Conscious Relationship
What exactly is a conscious relationship and who are the type of people that this practice is aimed at?
Does a conscious relationship only revolve around couples or can this practice help friendships?
You speak about conscious parenting on your website, how does that work?
What is the first step couples would take in starting a conscious relationship?
Is it possible to conduct a conscious relationship from the get go , where a couple is open and honest from the start of their relationship?
Can any couple work on making a conscious relationship and are some more drawn to it than others?
These questions answered by: Kim Illig, Personal Spiritual director & certified as an intuitive counselor. She works with women & men who want to heal their lives, bodies, emotions & spirit & hopefully together learn, explore & head in a safe & sacred container.
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Self Acceptance
You speak about accepting things that you most likely cannot change, as it is a waste of energy. How does this differ from complacency or apathy? And why is this positive when the other two terms are negative?
Why is acceptance such an important tool?
What are some tools we can use to start self accepting?
Why does one have to have self acceptance before they can have a good relationship with others?
What is radical self acceptance vs self accepting?
These questions answered by: Kim Illig, Personal Spiritual director & certified as an intuitive counselor. She works with women & men who want to heal their lives, bodies, emotions & spirit & hopefully together learn, explore & head in a safe & sacred container.
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Free Healthcare Marketing Techniques
What is the key to a successful medical center with good patient productivity? Why should a heartfelt greeting start with the directors? In what way will it filter down the system? How can the waiting room be used as a free marketing tactic? In a world where patients are becoming more learned, how can Indian physicians keep up with the Western world in promoting their practice and talents?
Questions answered by Dr. Akash Rajpal - Founder and CEO of Ekohealth
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SETI and Perspective
“Perspective is a very powerful thing.” Can you please discuss this in regards to earth in a vast universe?
How can finding alien intelligence help to trivialize the differences among human beings?
How does SETI reinforce what makes us human?
In regards to SETI, are the questions more important than the answers?
These questions answered by:
Dr. Jill Tarter, is an American astronomer and the outgoing director of the Center for SETI Research. Dr. Tarter’s work in astrobiology and her success as a female scientist have garnered achievement awards from several scientific organizations including two public service medals from NASA and a Lifetime Achievement Award by Women in Aerospace in 1989
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The Argument For SETI
How does our own existence on this planet give reason to intelligent life on other planets? And what is the suggestive evidence that life may have once existed on Mars?
What is the Drake Equation?
How have technological techniques used for SETI been applied to other areas?
How meaningful is the Allen Telescope Array to SETI? What does SETI hope to achieve with this technology?
These questions answered by:
Dr. Jill Tarter, is an American astronomer and the outgoing director of the Center for SETI Research. Dr. Tarter’s work in astrobiology and her success as a female scientist have garnered achievement awards from several scientific organizations including two public service medals from NASA and a Lifetime Achievement Award by Women in Aerospace in 1989
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Interstellar Signals
How significant are unexplained signals?
Is Earth sending signals? And if there is alien intelligence, would they catch it?
Will signal senders have any way of knowing that their signal has been received?
What happens if we do detect a signal? What is the next step?
These questions answered by:
Dr. Jill Tarter, is an American astronomer and the outgoing director of the Center for SETI Research. Dr. Tarter’s work in astrobiology and her success as a female scientist have garnered achievement awards from several scientific organizations including two public service medals from NASA and a Lifetime Achievement Award by Women in Aerospace in 1989
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Planet Earth And SETI
How quickly did life emerge on this planet in relation to how old Earth is? And what does this mean about the possibility of life on other planets?
How do extremophiles on earth lend the possibility to life on other planets?
How long has earth had the technology to receive signals from possible alien intelligence in space? What will be the implications once technology can measure modulation?
What is the greatest technological limitation facing SETI today? And how does it plan to overcome these limitations?
These questions answered by:
Dr. Jill Tarter, is an American astronomer and the outgoing director of the Center for SETI Research. Dr. Tarter’s work in astrobiology and her success as a female scientist have garnered achievement awards from several scientific organizations including two public service medals from NASA and a Lifetime Achievement Award by Women in Aerospace in 1989
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The SETI Institute
What is the SETI institute and what is its mission?
What was Project Phoenix? How big an area of space did it target and what were the lessons learned by the experiment?
What are narrow-band signals and why would these emissions signify E.T?
What was the “wow” signal that was picked up? Do we know of its origins?
These questions answered by:
Dr. Jill Tarter, is an American astronomer and the outgoing director of the Center for SETI Research. Dr. Tarter’s work in astrobiology and her success as a female scientist have garnered achievement awards from several scientific organizations including two public service medals from NASA and a Lifetime Achievement Award by Women in Aerospace in 1989
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The Argument Against SETI
What is the most widely used argument against SETI. How do your views differ?
How would you respond to Hawking’s comment: "If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans."
Has there ever been an argument against SETI that made you rethink your views?
Do skeptics of SETI generally come from a pious background?
These questions answered by:
Dr. Jill Tarter, is an American astronomer and the outgoing director of the Center for SETI Research. Dr. Tarter’s work in astrobiology and her success as a female scientist have garnered achievement awards from several scientific organizations including two public service medals from NASA and a Lifetime Achievement Award by Women in Aerospace in 1989
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Synthetic Populations
Dr. Irene Eckstrand is a program director in the Division of Genetics and Developmental Biology at the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of General Medical Sciences. She is an expert in evolutionary biology and infectious disease modeling and answers these questions:
1.Can you explain what is meant by a synthetic population?
2.How is the data compiled in order to compose this population?
3.What is Agent Based Modeling and how does it stand out from traditional epidemiological modeling methods?
4.How can a synthetic population influence strategies and government decision making?
5.What, if any, are the limitations to synthesizing populations?
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Epidemic Model
Dr. Irene Eckstrand is a program director in the Division of Genetics and Developmental Biology at the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of General Medical Sciences. She is an expert in evolutionary biology and infectious disease modeling and answers these questions:
1.What is the Global Epidemic Model? How is the data for this collected?
2.What is the meaning of ‘SEIR’ with regard to a person’s disease state?
3.What factor do airports play in the Global Epidemic Model?
4.Are diseases only carried by people? What are other factors that have the potential to spread infectious disease and how are they assessed or tracked in a Global Epidemic Model?
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Influenza
Dr. Irene Eckstrand is a program director in the Division of Genetics and Developmental Biology at the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of General Medical Sciences. She is an expert in evolutionary biology and infectious disease modeling and answers these questions:
1.What is H1N1? How did it become an epidemic in 2009?
2.Did computational modeling of Influenza predict the arrival of this epidemic?
3.How was the modeling put to use in 2009 with regard to the spread of Swine Flu, be it vaccinations or antiviral medications etc?
4.How did this outbreak in 2009 affect the epidemiological modeling research that is conducted today regarding influenza?
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Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study
Dr. Irene Eckstrand is a program director in the Division of Genetics and Developmental Biology at the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of General Medical Sciences. She is an expert in evolutionary biology and infectious disease modeling and answers these questions:
1.What is the Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS)?
2.What is an epidemiological model? How can be used for past, future and present issues?
3.What are some of the limitations of an epidemiological model in predicting and understanding infectious disease?
4.How have genetics become a causative factor in the development of infectious diseases?
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Computational Modeling
Dr. Irene Eckstrand is a program director in the Division of Genetics and Developmental Biology at the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of General Medical Sciences. She is an expert in evolutionary biology and infectious disease modeling and answers these questions:
1.What is the meaning of computations modeling?
2.What are the main uses of computations modeling in evolutionary biology?
3.What is the difference between the outbreak of an infectious disease that occurs deliberately versus naturally?
4.What are the effects of an infectious disease on a societal level, and what is the importance of being prepared for an outbreak?