By Isabel Fattal — 2018
A new research center at Columbia University is committed to figuring out how to turn failure into success.
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All kids feel anxious or stressed sometimes, like when they’re getting ready for a big test. But kids who learn and think differently may feel stress more often or more intensely. Self-soothing techniques can help them relax and regain their sense of control.
Maintaining your authority is important to your child’s well-being—and it’s important for your own emotional health too.
There are various developmental theories that go into the tool kit that parents and educators utilize to help mold caring and ethically intact people, including those of Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget and American psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg.
Nudge kids to be their best selves by encouraging them to consume positive, inspiring media and online content.
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Brain differences such as autism, ADHD, and dyslexia are not something to be cured, but something to be embraced as part of human diversity.
The transition from high school to college is not always an easy one.
Every generation, sometimes building on and sometimes rejecting what came before, develops its own ideas about parenting. For many millennials, the clinical psychologist Becky Kennedy, a.k.a. Dr. Becky, is the person whom they trust to deliver those ideas.
When a medication is being evaluated to modify the behavior of a person with autism, one must assess the risks versus the benefits.
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Because developing brains are prone to erratic, even dramatic behavior, parents can struggle to find the line between "normal" and "concerning."
In my more than two decades of treating children with mental health problems like ADHD, anxiety, childhood depression, oppositional defiant disorder, ASD, and many other conditions, I have found that making changes in the parenting environment can usually resolve the child’s problem.