Jan 05, 2017
What does Compulsive Shopping have to do with a trip to Africa to help teens prevent HIV? Quite a bit, as you’ll hear. In this show, Dr. Benson, nationally known expert in the study and treatment of compulsive buying disorder, first helps us recognize and address the compulsive shopping patterns that persist long after holiday shopping is finished. She describes the rationalizations to buy, the warning signs, as well as strategies and treatment programs for change. Dr. Benson then invites us into her experience while working as a counselor at Camp Sizanani in the countryside around Johannesburg, South Africa. Camp Sizanani provides a hundred and thirty teens a week-long camp experience that teaches them critical life skills like information about the changes of puberty and HIV/AIDS prevention with traditional camp activities. In the final segment of the show, April Benson shares not only the reactions of the teens but the personal meaning it offered to her, as well as the shopping challenges she experienced while in Africa.
Psych Up Live turns up your psychological perspective on life issues. With a wide variety of guests, Host Suzanne Phillips passes forward the latest in books, findings, and information relevant to your life and the world you live in. She explores topics as varied as family relationships, binge eating and violence on campus. In a conversational style, Suzanne and her guests translate the latest in psychology to exemplify ways of coping with child rearing, divorce, medical diagnosis, campus violence and social anxiety. She engages her guests with questions, often voicing her own thoughts or sharing related stories. What is particularly exciting about Psych Up Live is the opportunity for you to call in with your own stories, questions and opinions. Psych Up Live captures your attention as it considers life issues that will intrigue and inform you each Thursday at 11 AM Pacific Time, 2PM Eastern Time on the VoiceAmerica Variety Channel.