Wanderlust is defined as the strong desire to roam around or travel. This is more commonly seen in people who love to travel. You’ll notice people with wanderlust as those who go on more than two flights in a year, … Read more
Autism and Play
Autism is a wide spectrum and the common symptoms are difficulties in social skills and communications skills which can be developed through play time. Play is an essential part of a child’s development. Through play children will develop their gross … Read more
Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder is commonly known as PTSD. What is PTSD? According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5 (DSM 5), PTSD involves a specific set of characteristics.
As the name suggests, people who experience themselves a traumatic experience or … Read more
Meeting the Genderbread Person!
In the last blog we discussed a bit about what biological sex is, including the lesser known intersex. This time we’ll be focusing more on gender. Gender is commonly confused with sex, in the sense that, if someone is born … Read more
Binge watching
Binge watching as defined by a Netflix survey means that a person watches between two to six episodes of a show in one sitting.
Even if, when asked viewers seem to be positive about binge watching studies found some correlations … Read more
Health behaviour and health promotion – Part 2 of 2
As stated in my previous blog, I will now look into different models of how healthy behaviours can be promoted. These models mainly include; The health belief model, the theory of planned behaviour and the transtheoretical model of behaviour change.… Read more
Health behaviour and health promotion – Part 1 of 2
“Eat this because it’s healthy”, “drink that because it’s healthy”, “exercise like that because it’s healthy”. These are some common phrases that most of us have probably heard in our life. Behaviours undertaken by people to enhance their health are … Read more
Intersex-ing Sex and Gender
We have been socialised to believe that people can only have 2 biological sexes – namely male (XY) and female (XX). This is generally the norm, except in certain situations – in which someone is born intersex.
“Intersex” is a … Read more
I have a Fetish
Having a fetish means that a person experiences a form of sexual desire which is linked to an abnormal degree to an object, body part or even material.
Even if the main causes of fetishes have never been established some … Read more
Childhood Cancers in Malta
What are childhood cancers?
Locally, we have some statistics and data about childhood cancers. Although they are not the latest statistics, it can help us generate a picture of the incidence of childhood cancers. Childhood cancers, are cancers in children … Read more