Child Psychology
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Solutions for Depressed or Anxious Teens
Teenagers struggling with depression or anxiety can't always ask their parents for help. Here are other solutions for depressed or anxious teens.
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Help for Depressed Teenagers
Struggling alone is not a good way for teenagers and adolescents to deal with feelings of depression and sadness! Here are tips to help depressed teens find ways to cope.
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Treating Phobias in Children
Many children who struggle with phobias and anxiety attacks benefit from one-session therapy treatment sessions. This new research reveals how to reduce anxious behavior.
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Praying for Healing From Illness
Praying with your doctor for a child struggling with cancer may not be the first thing you consider, but research shows that prayer helps fight disease.
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How Religion Increases Depression in Teens
New research in adolescent psychology reveals a fascinating link between religion and a teen's mood. Going to church may be a cause of childhood depression.
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Therapeutic Clowns for Sick Kids
Therapeutic clowning is more than entertaining sick kids. Clowns in hospitals reduce stress for parents of children with cancer & even help solve medical mysteries.
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School Bullying Is Learned at Home
Though school bullying is not the parent's "fault", new research shows that parenting styles affect students' behavior at school.
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Childhood Depression
Childhood depression is more than having "the blues" or being sad about losing a friend or getting poor grades. Childhood depression is a serious mental health condition.
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Child Development and Emotions in Play Therapy
Stressed children may exhibit aggressive behavior, bed-wetting, or anxiety. Here's how family and play therapy can help kids cope with negative emotions.
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Vintage Toys for Healthy Play
When it comes to enhancing imagination & developing creativity in children, retro play outweighs modern electronic toys. Vintage toys are eco-friendly & inexpensive, too.
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Why Stars Struggle with Addictions
Actor Heath Ledger was famous, handsome, wealthy, & talented. On January 22, 2008, he was found dead of a possible overdose in his apartment in Manhattan. Ledger was 28.
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Extroverts at Work
Extroverts at work are a prime example of one of the Big Five Personality Traits - which is the exact opposite of introverts at work.
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Introverts' Holiday Stress
Introverted personalities may feel more anxious over the holidays (Thanksgiving stress, Christmas tension, Easter anxiety). Here are 3 ways to cope with holiday stress.
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Defining Fear of Intimacy
Fear of intimacy is more than a commitment phobia, a dating famine, or fear of women. It's a fear of losing yourself that suffocates your ability to love.
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The Key to Archetypes
Carol Pearson and Hugh Marr's guidebook interprets the results of the Pearson-Marr Archetype Indicator test. It brings Jung's archetypes and psychological types to life!
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Protecting Personal Boundaries
Personal boundaries are key to healthy relationships. Here, learn about unhealthy versus healthy boundaries, and how to establish your personal boundaries.
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Setting Healthy Boundaries
She sued her boyfriend for $4,000 on The People's Court; Judge Milian ruled that she had no self-respect and unhealthy boundaries. Here's why Milian was outraged.
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Coping with Stress and Anxiety
Stress relief and anxiety management includes listening to music, visualization, and distinguishing between reality and fantasy.
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Treatments for Depressed Teenagers or Children
An effective treatment for depressed teenagers or children is combination therapy, which blends of antidepressants and cognitive-behavioral talk therapy.
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Surviving an Extramarital Affair
Adultery is a heart-breaking betrayal, whether it's emotional cheating or physical intimacy with another person. Here are five steps to surviving an extramarital affair.
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Avoiding Emotional Infidelity
Emotional cheating involves personal intimacy with someone other than your spouse or partner. Emotional infidelity can be harder on a marriage than adultery.
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Mental Health of College Students
College students are living away from home and learning new routines. Depressed moods, alcohol abuse and gambling addictions are signs of discontent
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Find PMS Relief With Chocolate
Natural remedies for PMS include gourmet chocolate, chasteberry extract & natural health supplements. Here's some natural cures for those nasty symptoms of PMS.
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New Ways to Quit Smoking
If you want help to quit smoking, you could try lung cancer screening or the nicotine patch - but it may be easiest to just look at 'quit smoking aids' advertisements.
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Introverts Aren't Highly Sensitive
Though introverted personalities & highly sensitive people seem similar, they're actually quite different. In fact, highly sensitive people can be extraverts.
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Contributing Articles in Child Psychology
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Signs of ADD or ADHD
For parents who recognize many signs of ADD or ADHD in their children, it's best to seek a professional opinion in order to start treating the symptoms.
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What is Childhood Schizophrenia?
Schizophrenia symptoms are often very difficult to deal with. It's a mental illness that can sometimes start out as childhood schizophrenia.
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Anxiety Symptoms in Children
When a child has an anxiety disorder, it may be overlooked or misdiagnosed. This article talks about how to recognize and help a child with anxiety symptoms.
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Anxiety in Children
Anxiety in children can be very difficult to diagnose. When children show anxiety symptoms, it's important to address the issue as soon as possible.
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Vygotsky's Theory of Child Development
Vygotsky was an influential educational theorist. This article discusses his contribution to the understanding of child development.
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Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development
Jean Piaget's work continues to guide contemporary understanding of child development, particularly in the domain of education. This article reviews his theory.
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Bilingual Children Learn Better
Think that introducing another language will confuse your growing child? Not so, according to researchers. It may even help your child academically.
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An Overview of the Oedipus and Electra Complexes
Sigmund Freud argued that adult characteristics were caused by childhood development, especially those in the Phallic stage, namely, the Oedipus and Electra complexes.
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Children of the Screen are Losing Their Identity
A look at scientist Susan Greenfield's analysis of screen culture and how it will affect the new generations' identity formation, as reviewed from her new book.
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Conjoint Family Therapy
Psychologist explains the benefits to treating children with psychological, emotional, and behavioral problems by involving the whole family.
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Effective Child Management
Psychologist explains key aspects of becoming an effective efficient parent who is in control of the family and home.
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Forced Apologies
Psychologist explains the possible consequences and alternatives to forcing apologies out of children.
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School Psychologists and Related Personnel
Psychologist explains what psychological resources and student services parents can typically expect to find in their child's school.
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Dealing with a Nagging Child
Psychologist guides parents through the more versus less effective options for handling a nagging child.
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Managing Separation Anxiety
Psychologist helps parents understand separation anxiety, clinging behavior, and how they can be alleviated.
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The Value of Playgroups
Family psychologist discusses the potential social and emotional advantages to both mother and child of participating in a playgroup.
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Setting Limits for Kids
Family psychologist discusses reasons behind parents' difficulty setting limits and saying the word no along with the positive functions such limits provide.
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Kindergarten Derogations in Quebec
Montreal psychologist shares information and insights for Quebec parents considering derogating a child who misses the academic cut-off date for kindergarten.
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Video Game Addiction
This new digital drug works on the brain similarly to street drugs. Knowing the warning signs of addiction as well as the means of prevention and treatment are important.
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Play Therapy
Therapy is expensive and many parents have concerns about paying for a child to play. Still, decades of research have demonstrated many benefits to skilled Play Therapy.
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Psychology Therapies for Children
Psychologist guides parents on effective therapies commonly used with children experiencing emotional issues or behavioral problems.
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Children and Behavioral Problems
Psychologist suggests ways parents can help psychologists, psychiatrists & educators better evaluate & treat children's emotional or behavioral problems.
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New York Psychotherapist Murdered
Details the murder scene of the respected New York psychotherapist and explains the philosophy of her treatment of patients throughout her 20-year career.
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Does Music Affect Teens?
Music is often blamed for influencing particular behaviors, but does it really do so? Why is music sometimes associated with negative behavior and actions?
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The Biology of Naps
Your circadian rhythms may be to blame for your urge to sleep in the afternoon, but high-carb diets don't help.
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