Posted: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 12:00 am

Therapist agrees to surrender license

An area mental health counselor has agreed to surrender her license to settle a case with the Iowa Board of Behavioral Science.

According to a settlement agreement released Thursday, Amy Jo Murphy of Omaha, owner of AJ Counseling Services, admitted engaging in sexual activities with a client, engaging in unethical conduct and engaging in practice harmful or detrimental to the public. She also admitted failing to disclose an investigation into her conduct by the State of Nebraska but said this was accidental. She denied failing to release records subpoenaed by the board. The board agreed to dismiss that count.

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Therapist agrees to surrender license

Management and Behavioral Science
Dr. S Jayaweera 6th February 2015.

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For the sake of gay people, let's all put an end to this nonsense about their abnormality

Sometimes, public health education becomes wearisome for the health professional. Because, as any person working on behavioral and attitude change will tell you, the information has to be repeated in novel ways until it becomes common knowledge.

As a mental health professional, I'd always thought that information that has been in the scientific mainstream for 40 years and relates to something as common as homosexuality would be common sense by now.

I refer of course to the scientific consensus that being lesbian or gay or bisexual is a normal human variation. For the sake of completion, I shall say that there is an emerging consensus that being transgender is also a normal human variation. But I will not discuss issues of transgender people here, having written on this already. Instead, I shall focus on lesbian, gay and bisexual people.

So this is the mental health information that people really need to understand: being gay is normal.

Some people are heterosexual and some are gay or lesbian or bisexual. Some people are short and some are tall. Some people are plump and some thin. In other words human beings vary in many ways both physically and psychologically. One of the ways they vary is to whom they are sexually attracted.

Therefore there is no such thing as "too gay."

Paint their hands back

I refer, of course, to the billboards of a local fashion company which show different loving duos: a grandmother and her grandson, a heterosexual couple, a lesbian couple and a gay couple. It seems someone (initially announced as members of the Ads Standards Council but later denied by them) thought that a billboard of two men, fully clothed and very subtly holding hands, was "too gay." The billboards had to be revised, defaced actually, because the hands were very badly painted over in black.

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Love all kinds of love: Paint the science back

GTEBORG, Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--What are the factors that influence us in choosing the mode of transport to take in our everyday lives? The Hkan Frisinger Foundation for Transportation Research has awarded its 2014 scholarship to Professor Margareta Friman at Karlstad University. Margareta Friman will receive the scholarship of SEK 250,000 for combining behavioral science with transportation research, and thus has increased understanding of the factors that influence the decisions and choices of transport people make.

Part of the Foundation Boards citation was as follows: Margareta Frimans research, which primarily focuses on consumer and transportation psychology, has generated extensive national and international attention. She has been widely published in scientific journals and is often invited to speak at conferences.

Alongside her high publishing rate, Margareta Friman is engaged as an expert both within and outside academia, and has been highly praised by external evaluators for her work as a director and manager of the Service and Market Oriented Transport Research Group (SAMOT) at Karlstad University.

The scholarship will be awarded by the Hkan Frisinger Foundation at a seminar held on April 1 in the Palmstedt hall of Chalmers University of Technology. Volvo Research & Educational Foundations (VREF), the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers will organize a seminar in connection with the award ceremony.

The seminar will be in Swedish.

Program and Registration on page http://korta.nu/Kd4

For questions, contact Ulf Andersson, ulf.andersson@chalmers.se, phone: +46 (0) 736 545402.

Volvo Research and Educational Foundations: http://www.vref.se/

Picture of Margareta Friman: http://images.volvogroup.com/latelogin.jspx?recordsWithCatalogName=ab+volvo:3604

For more stories from the Volvo Group, please visit http://www.volvogroup.com/globalnews.

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Volvo Scholarship for Research on Why We Travel the Way We Do