A relatively short intervention program recently developed by researchers at the University at Buffalo can lead to significant reductions in some of these behaviors.
Date Posted: March 15, 2016
Categories: Bullying, Child and/or Adolescent Issues
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High video game usage was associated with a 1.75 times the odds of high intellectual functioning and 1.88 times the odds of high overall school competence.
Mar 10
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Parenting
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Some parents always try to hide their negative emotions and amplify their positive emotions.
Feb 29
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development, Parenting
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A new study, believed to be the first to look at the mental health of transgender children who have “socially transitioned,” finds that they had rates of depression and anxiety no higher than two control groups of children.
Feb 29
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & ...
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A study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP) reports that adolescents with major depression who performed a computer-based task designed to shift attention from sad to neutral to positive ...
Feb 26
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Depression, Teenage Issues
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On the outside, when a child with ADHD is having an outburst, it might look like they’re misbehaving on purpose. They’re kicking, screaming, crying and throwing their toys. Or maybe it’s the opposite: They’ve completely shut down.
Jan 13
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues
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Santa Claus performers struggle with fulfilling the role of old St Nic due to an acute awareness of the sensitivities around interactions with children.
Dec 19
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues
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Violence is more harmful to people than sex. Parents universally hope their kids will never have to be violent or even experience violence. Sex, on the other hand, is a part of life that everybody wants their offspring to enjoy eventually. So why ...
Dec 5
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Parenting
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One way to look at this is that stressful conditions don’t lessen you so much as condition you.
Oct 15
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development
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Children at risk of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are being enrolled in a pioneering “babylab” that aims to detect the condition years earlier than is currently possible.
Sep 22
Categories: Adult ADHD, Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development, ...
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Sami Timimi sees ADHD as a “cultural barometer” of society’s attitudes towards children. We think of ourselves as being increasingly tolerant towards children, but the rise in medication for the young is an indication of the opposite trend.
Sep 22
Categories: Adult ADHD, Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development, ...
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Watching toddlers pinch, hit and bite each other doesn't fill you with confidence about human nature. But there's no need to be down about it – the little devils don't yet have the self-control to manage their anger and frustration, that's all. ...
Sep 10
Categories: Aggression & Violence, Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child ...
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Repeated exposure to anesthesia early in life causes alterations in emotional behavior that may persist long-term, according to a study.
Sep 9
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development, Emotional ...
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On the morning of August 12, 2013, nearly eight months after 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., and killed 26 people, Michael Mudry, an investigator with the Connecticut State Police, drove to ...
Jun 20
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development
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Teenagers who are incarcerated tend to have substantially worse outcomes later in life than those who avoid serving time for similar offenses, according to a distinctive new study co-authored by an MIT scholar.
Jun 17
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues
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Sometimes it's cute when kids act self-centered. Yet parenting styles can make the difference between a confident child and a narcissistic nightmare, psychologists at the University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University in the Netherlands concluded ...
Jun 11
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development
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