How to Deal With PTSD from Childhood Trauma in Your Mid-40s

By acknowledging and addressing the effects of past experiences, individuals can move forward with a healthier and happier life.

How to Deal With PTSD from Childhood Trauma in Your Mid-40s

How Mindfulness Is Shaping The Growing Minds

How does it impact children? How should it be used with children?

How Mindfulness Is Shaping The Growing Minds

How to Approach the Subject of Death with Your Children

Benjamin Franklin once said that nothing in life is certain but death and taxes. While this is very true, the former is often much scarier to children than the latter. Talking about death and what this means has often been a taboo subject in families as the discomfort of the subject seems to be better left unspoken about. Unfortunately, death is a part of life, and it is better to prepare children for this eventuality rather than to ignore it.

How to Approach the Subject of Death with Your Children

Children and Parents' Antisocial Behavior

Recent research from the University of Chicago found that a mother's parenting style and a baby's temperament in the first year of life can reliably predict subsequent behavioral problems.

Children and Parents' Antisocial Behavior

Lifestyle Habits

Child health psychologists should play a greater role in development of positive
lifestyles thus contributing to adult disease prevention.

Lifestyle Habits

Two Studies On Autism

Characteristic and sometimes severe symptoms of autism such as repetitive motions, problems interacting with others and impaired communication can improve with age.

Two New Studies On Autism

Childhood Violence Perpetuates Into Adulthood

Victims of violence in childhood are more likely to continue the pattern in adulthood, either as victims or perpetrators.

Childhood Violence Perpetuates Into Adulthood

How Children Relate To Storybook Characters

A new study from University of Waterloo researchers Daniela O'Neill and Rebecca Shultis published in Developmental Psychology used an innovative approach to evaluate young children's storytelling ability and found that they are able to immerse themselves in the thoughts and feelings of fictional characters.

How Children Relate To Storybook Characters

Evening-preference and Adolescent Problems

New research suggests that early adolescents who prefer evening to morning activities are more likely to exhibit antisocial behavior. Previous studies focusing on older adolescents showed a similar link with psychological problems.

Evening-preference and Adolescent Problems

Adolescent Anger Management - Some Practical Texts

Anger Management - an overused phrase that often provokes more anger than management. Anyone working with angry adolescents rapidly realizes that while attention may be on the consequences - damage, disruption, violence to self and others - anger won't be resolved unless underlying issues are listened to and addressed if possible.

Adolescent Anger Management

Parents Fail to Recognise Children's Excess Weight

A survey by researchers at Deakin's Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition in Australia has found that the majority of parents with obese children lack awareness or concern about their children's weight.

Parents Fail to Recognise Children's Excess Weight