Top 5 Mindfulness-Based Apps for Kids
A new study reviews and ranks the best of 36 mindfulness apps for children.
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Service Dogs May Improve Your Mental Health
A new study finds that service dogs may provide not only concrete help but also improve the social/psychological health of people with chronic conditions and disabilities.
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How Girls and Boys Differ in the Development of Depression
A recent study examines depressive symptom trajectories in males and females, from late childhood to young adulthood.
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When Do People Commit Suicide?
A new study of over 100,000 suicides in 18 US states examines the seasonal, monthly, weekly, and daily time patterns of suicide.
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15 Reasons Why People with Depression Don’t Get Treatment
Why do some people who acknowledge needing treatment for depression do not obtain it? A new research study examines 15 potential reasons.
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Do Not Spank Your Children
A new review of research on spanking finds that even occasional spanking is ineffective, and more importantly, harmful.
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What Factors Are Associated with Positive Parenting?
What results in good parenting? Parental characteristics? Children’s? A study of nearly 1,000 twins points to a few different factors.
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To Be Resilient: To Rise Above, to Bounce Back, or…?
What does it mean to be resilient? To rise above? To adapt? To bounce back? I discuss five perspectives on the meaning of resilience.
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