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3. What services are available from Selfhelp Magazine
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FREE SERVICES INCLUDE: articles in topic areas such as sports psychology, health, sexuality, parenting & family life, men's issues, gay/lesbian/bisexual issues, alcohol, tobacco & other drug use. These are all available for downloading to your printer.
Other services include Discussion Zone Forums where you can chat 24/7 with other SelfhelpMagazine users about your personal and emotional circumstances to get feedback and support; our Resources Zone with links to over a 1000 related websites, or offline agencies, hospitals, and organizations. We also offer a free postcard service so you can send a meaningful message to a loved one; PsychToons to brighten your day with some humor; and a Medication Zone to help you relax with relating nature scenes and optional music that help you get away from your immediate environment for a few minutes with just a few clicks of your mouse.
References are usually offered at the end of our articles for those of you who want to find more information about the content offered in any specific article. Our SelfhelpMagazine Newsletter is sent through e-mail to individuals requesting to be placed on our mailing list. Free newsletters contain our featured article for the month, several Questions and Answers that are of interest to general readership; online resources and offline resources for you to contact in specialized topic areas, bookstore specials of the month, our volunteer job listings, and other related information. To subscribe, please send a post with the following message in the body of the post: *subscribe SHPM yourname* to *listserv@icors.com* without the (*). If you have difficulty, please send a note to Newsletter@SelfhelpMagazine.com.
4. How do I obtain more specific information about the magazine?
Letters to the Editor-in-Chief may be e-mailed to Marlene M. Maheu, Ph.D.
5. Who writes articles for SelfhelpMagazine?
Professionals or graduate students in one of the mental health or health disciplines are encouraged to submit articles. Our readership is also encouraged to submit opinion pieces and they are to be found in the Reader's Article Department.
If you are a professional or student of psychotherapy attending a graduate program, and interested in submitting an article, please see our submission guidelines. We'd love to have you contribute!
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7. More Information about Contacting our Authors
Readers often ask if their own personal psychological questions can be answered by article authors, or if they can hire our authors to give them direct advice. Our staff signs a comprehensive agreement with us waranteeing that they will not make contact with our readership, and if our readership contacts them, they are not to represent any association with our Company, Pioneer Development Resources or our publications, of which SelfhelpMagazine is only one. Our use of the term "Staff" is a loose one, and not to imply that we know anything about these authors beyond what they have represented to us and the articles they have submitted. We do not track them down or verify their stated credentials.
Communicating without the benefit of face-to-face contact, that is, by telephone or by email is often fraught with mis-interpretation and errors, especially with regard to emotionally-related material. This is especially true of people you do not know in real life.
Our Contributors are strongly discouraged from answering questions from readers to minimize liability regarding the answers they may give. Similarly, our readers are discouraged from asking authors to give them specific responses to questions. Rather, readers are encouraged to use this magazine as they would any print magazine, that is, to print our articles and bring them to local professionals for face-to-face discussion of questions related to how the article may be relevant to their personal situations.
It is our policy that the Staff of SelfhelpMagazine does not offer direct response to email questions. If one of our Authors violates our policy, and their written agreement with us regarding this matter, you and they are soley responsible for your collective actions. Readers making direct contact with authors are advised to proceed at their own risk. We DO NOT indemnify or attest to the ability of any author to respond appropriately or at all to you.
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