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 from the first longitudinal study on the origins of intense feelings of superiority in children.
Date Posted: June 11, 2015
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development
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Our lives are full of decisions, and sometimes they include risky ones. People's risky behaviours are often dependent on their beliefs about the potential benefit and failure of the action. For some actions, the beliefs about potential risks can be ...
Jun 2
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues
GO"Inside Out" tells the story of Joy, Fear, Disgust, Anger and Sadness. They run a girl named Riley from a control center ...
May 30
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues
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A major issue is that a self-report or a parent’s report on our personality might not be biased by an individual’s expectation of how one should behave.
Apr 24
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development
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Typical ADHD interventions target at reducing hyperactivity which is different from what we want to do for majority of ADHD children.
Their movements need to be facilitated and maintain at a level of alertness for cognitive activities.
Apr 24
Categories: Adult ADHD, Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Oppositional & ...
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Binge-drinking during adolescence may perturb brain development at a critical time and leave lasting effects on genes and behavior that persist into adulthood.
Apr 7
Categories: Addictions, Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development
GODepression is a major health problem for which most patients are not effectively treated. In particular, depression is an increasing problem in children and teenagers. The most commonly prescribed antidepressants are selective serotonin reuptake ...
Apr 1
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Depression
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We are constantly bombarded with images of thin people on billboards, on magazines and what not. The study looks at the ideals that children have. And how young girls are showing a preference for thin girls by allocating more "positive" adjectives ...
Mar 7
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development
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The effects of a stressful early childhood on critical biological processes.
Jan 26
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development
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Neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) are zeroing in on brain factors and behaviors that put teens at risk of alcohol use and abuse even before they start drinking.
Nov 18
Categories: Addictions, Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development
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There's plenty of evidence that spanking, paddling or hitting children doesn't improve their behavior in the long run and actually makes it worse.
But the science never trumps emotion, according to Alan Kazdin, head of the Yale Parenting Center and ...
Sep 27
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Parenting
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Combative parents may impair a child’s ability to recognize and control emotions. Aggression between parents powerfully shape children's emotional adjustment and long-term childhood poverty was also found to negatively influence child emotional ...
Sep 24
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development, Parenting
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Previous research has revealed that mothers who respond quickly and warmly to their babies' cries have infants with better emotional development, compared with mothers who are less sensitive. Now, a new study suggests that moms with positive ...
Sep 11
Categories: Caregiver Issues / Stress, Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child ...
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Children show stronger food craving than adolescents and adults, but they are also able to use a cognitive strategy that reduces craving, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological ...
Sep 10
Categories: Addictions, Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development
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Tests and assessments carried out at school are often seen as a way of predicting how well a child will do later on in life. However, new research from Professor Richard Cowan, Institute of Education (IOE), suggests that how well a child is doing at ...
Sep 8
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development, Teenage Issues
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In these times of busy and fast-paced lifestyles, sitting down to a family meal can be a rare luxury. But a new study suggests that for teenagers, regular family meals could protect them against the negative implications of cyberbullying.
Sep 4
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues
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