There are two new studies from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) that indicate that practicing mindfulness from a young age, in particular, in middle schoolers, helps their mental health and academics. The research shows that mindfulness is related directly to reduced stress, better ...
Date Posted: August 28, 2019
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues
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Children who are consistently rated highly on interpersonal callousness through childhood might be more likely to show aggression and behave violently as they enter adolescence and adulthood.
Aug 23
Categories: Aggression & Violence, Child and/or Adolescent Issues
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By helping parents learn to talk about certain topics such as sex and alcohol with their children, the awareness that adolescents have towards these issues will improve. This enables them to make wiser choices and engage in healthy behaviors which ...
Aug 20
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Parenting
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Lack of sleep and excessive screen-time can cause children and adolescents to make poor decisions and act recklessly, which might lead to the worsening of their mental health and development of addictions in the future.
Aug 15
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development
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Children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are often less ready for school than their peers, due to impairment in various areas such as social development and learning approaches. As such, there is a need to identify children who ...
Aug 2
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development
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We are often advised by health professionals to use smaller plates to serve our food on so as to get ourselves to consume smaller, healthier portions of food. However, a recent study has suggested that it might be more advisable to cut back on ...
Jul 20
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Parenting
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Alcoholism is more common in adolescents who have a greater amount of grey matter in certain brain regions, according to results from brain imaging. Such findings might be helpful in providing youths at risk with more help, as it allows us to ...
Jul 5
Categories: Addictions, Child and/or Adolescent Issues
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Researchers have compared between 38 pregnant women, currently well with history of depression and bipolar disorder against 28 other healthy pregnant women. They also tested 18 non-pregnant women, as controls. Between the 27th and 39th weeks of ...
Jun 15
Categories: Bipolar, Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development, Depression
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A new study has found that parents' attitudes towards mathematics can predict the learning outcomes of their children.
Dec 6
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Learning Difficulties, Parenting
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This article explores the different reasons family estrangement can occur and how a child copes with their decision to distant themselves from their family.
Oct 26
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Child and/or Adolescent ...
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This article talks about how parents should act when their child lies. Parents are encouraged to first understand their child’s reason behind telling the lie before proceeding to discuss the consequences.
Oct 16
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development, Parenting
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There is often a misconception between the term ‘Self-esteem’ and ‘Narcissism’. Many often think that having high self-esteem makes one narcissistic or rather, having high self-esteem means being narcissistic. The truth is from as young as a ...
Sep 28
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development, Parenting, ...
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Ambivalence can affect a teen’s state of mind during growth process. Ambivalence is having a mixed feeling and being inconsistent in behavior and decisions, it can cause conflict and confusion in the mind. This article explains how Ambivalence can ...
Sep 6
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Child and/or Adolescent ...
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This article explores the new associations found between the brain, individual resilience and anxiety.
Sep 3
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Adult psychological ...
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This article talks about how parents can help their children or even themselves eliminate the toxic feeling of needing to compare themselves to others.
Aug 30
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Child and/or Adolescent ...
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How do you know when your child is displaying symptoms of psychological distress, and when is it just simply "growing pains"?
Aug 15
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Child and/or Adolescent ...
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