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I always find it amusing when people talk nostalgically about “the good old days” when arguing that today’s generation is “out of control.” ”Today’s kids are so violent… When I was a kid I would have never gotten away with that!,” I hear often. The argument is that today’s youth are out of control because parents [...]
Continue Reading →Today I read one of the most interesting studies I’ve read in a while. It included an examination of the long term health effects of having a number of childhood adversities, such as divorce, abuse, or experiencing childhood depression or anxiety. Are stressful events and mental health problems in childhood associated with medical problems as [...]
Continue Reading →Historically, most academic and philosophical thinking about depression has been focused on sadness. For example, most interventions for depression attempt to reduce the thoughts and behaviors that make us sad. Likewise, many researchers are interested in examining the factors that make people feel sad or “dysphoric”. Yet, research studies from many laboratories, including my own [...]
Continue Reading →Hello everyone! It has been a while since my last posts and I have a few updates before I share with you some thoughts on a recent study on parental emotions and teen depression.
I wanted to start by thanking Dr. Anita Schimizzi, who has done an incredible job keeping child-psych running throughout the summer. [...]
Continue Reading →We all know how subjective most aspects of life are. One’s perceptions carry an immeasurable amount of weight as we work to understand and interact with this world around us. A recent study in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry demonstrated the importance of perceptions in looking at how kids view their parents.
Young [...]
Continue Reading →While many of us are fortunate enough to have healthy children, not all families are so lucky. They must confront the chronic illness of a child on a daily basis. What are some key factors that can help them do this successfully? Read on about an article that I came across.
March’s APA Monitor included an [...]
Continue Reading →There has been a lot of research done on maternal depression and we know that it can have a big impact on children. We don’t know as much about paternal depression because, quite frankly, there just hasn’t been the same focus on this issue. I was excited to come across an article by Davis and [...]
Continue Reading →The New York Times recently published an article about Junior Kumon, a Japanese developed tutoring program brought to the U.S. The author sets the scene with a three year-old that is practicing writing double-digit numbers for which she gets a sticker when completed correctly. Most students attend the program a couple of times a week [...]
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