bringing data from psychological research to those caring for people in the real world
In this video, we review a comprehensive study looking at the link between young people's understanding of psychological functioning and their actual mental health. The main concepts used in the study are those of Dr. Carol Dweck. You can learn more about her and her very useful and important work here. She also has a TED talk, which you can access here .
In this video we review a study that looks at various positive and negative parenting behaviors and how well they predict internalizing symptoms (or lack thereof) in elementary-aged children.
Here we review a meta-analysis addressing the question of gender differences in emotional expression across childhood and adolescence. Several of the findings, especially regarding girls, have implications for parenting and clinical work.
In this video, we review a meta-analysis that identified several aspects of interventions that show promise for preventing disorganized attachment in children. Those factors include, among other things, a focus on training the parents to be sensitive to their children's cues and to respond appropriately.
Dr. Martin Pinquart and colleagues provide evidence that one's attachment style is moderately stable over time, but that this stability depends on certain factors.
This meta-analysis demonstrates that kids and teens who are depressed have a variety of cognitive deficits. In this video, we review specifically which skills are deficient and what this might mean for working with kids.
This 2013 meta-analysis looks at worldwide data on how parents' use of manipulation with their children relates to children's own use of manipulation (relational aggression) in peer relationships. The relationship is higher for teens than for younger children.
This meta-analysis demonstrates that thoughts about (moreso than feelings, behaviors, or physiological reactions to) parents fighting predict children's psychological problems, and that internalizing problems (sadness, anxiety, low self-esteem) are more closely related to their ways of coping with parental conflict than are externalizing problems (acting out, etc.).
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