Child Psychology
School Avoidance: Why You Can’t Ignore It
In the current issue of Deutsches Ärzteblatt International, child and adolescent psychiatrist Martin Knollmann and colleagues describe school avoidance due to emotional issues and compare ...
Heroin Abuse and Students
Last month I ventured into the non-clinical realm and discussed sports psychology and the, if you will, lighter side of the profession. This month I ...
Sports Psychology 101
Since so many of our articles and blogs are devoted to childrens’ problems and pathologies, I thought I would range outside of that territory to ...
Attention and Concentration Problems
Attention and Concentration Problems: Biofeedback and Neurofeedback as Alternative Therapies for Helping Your Kids Perform Better in School, Sports, and Life Few of us have ...
Autism
A recent report from the CDC indicates that the prevalence of autism has increased by 78% since 2002. It is unclear what has caused this ...
Making Boys Better Men
If men are simple and easily understood, then boys, who are arguably younger and smaller, should be even simpler and easier to understand. However, numerous ...
Top Tips for Helping Your Preschooler Make New Friends
Preschoolers may not make friends naturally or easily. Depending on your preschooler’s temperament, making friends may be easy or challenging. Generally speaking, preschoolers do not ...
Learning Disabilities and Extreme Patterns of Thinking
In addition to classroom challenges, one of the challenges facing students with learning disabilities or challenges is learning to curtail extreme thinking patterns. Child Psychologist, Dr ...
When Does Worry Become Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder? Part 1
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH 2009) has produced a 15-point scale that defines various levels of the continuum of normal worrying to clinical ...
Adolescent Boys Who Practice Mindfulness Meditation Show Improved Mood and Contentment
Mindfulness refers to being completely in touch with and aware of the present moment, as well as taking a non-evaluative and non-judgmental approach to your ...
One in Five Adolescents Have Psychiatric Disorder
Researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health have reported on the prevalence data on a broad range of mental disorders in a nationally representative ...
Therapy Dogs Reduce Stress in Autistic Children
A new study by researchers at the Universite of Montreal published in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology reveals that Autistic children who are exposed to the presence ...
Childhood ADHD May Predict Depression and Suicidality
A recent study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry showed that children diagnosed with ADHD between 4 to 6 years old were at higher ...
Two and Three-Year-Old Children are Excellent Negotiators
Torgeir Alvestad, a researcher from the University of Gothenberg in Sweden, has written a fascinating thesis paper based on studying the play of two and ...
New Study Find Signs of Schizophrenia in Babies
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Columbia University have found that signs of schizophrenia can be detected in babies as ...
Binge Eating Severity Found to be Directly Related to Severity of Childhood Sexual or Emotional Abuse
Binge Eating Disorder (BED) is an eating disorder in which an individual eats large quantities of food, usually very quickly. However, unlike Bulimia, the person ...
