What’s New in Psychology?

Talk about Behaviors and Feelings – Not Weight or Size

What’s New in Psychology?

How Parents Can Help Kids Struggling with the Current Mental Health Crisis

 Jim Windell

What’s New in Psychology?

Do People Outgrow ADHD?   

What’s New in Psychology?

Teens, Technology and Coping

What’s New in Psychology?

Air Pollution and Children’s Learning Problems

What’s New in Psychology?

The Effects of Bullying in Adulthood

What New in Psychology?

Long-term Effects of Concussion on Kids

The Facts About Alcohol and Young People

Jim Windell

Sugar and Spice and Everything Not So Nice?

 Jim Windell

The Loneliness of the Adolescent

 By Jim Windell

            Which teenagers are most likely to become addicted to the internet?

Can Kids Benefit from Mindfulness Training?

By Jim Windell

How Important is Self-Control?

By Jim Windell

What’s so Bad about Teenage Depression?

 By Jim Windell

What to get That Older Child on Your Holiday Shopping List

By Jim Windell

            We all have them on our shopping list. Those sons, daughters, nieces, nephews or grandchildren -- older kids who are no longer children and much too old for Legos, dolls or stuffed animals.  There lies the dilemma -- what to to get them.

Low Levels of Chemicals in Mothers may cause ADHD

By Jim Windell

            Does the thyroid health of pregnant women play a role in the brain development of their fetus?
           

Does Writing by Hand Make You Smarter?

By Jim Windell

Recognizing Emotional and Psychological Symptoms in Children and Teens Following a Concussion

 By Jim Windell

Almost 15 years ago, Kevin O’Shea, a stay-at-home dad with three children, and I wrote the book “The Father-Style Advantage.” A main theme of the book was that dads have a much different parenting style than moms and this difference is very beneficial to children. One of the distinctions between mothers and fathers, we noted, was in the way that dads play with their children. We wrote that the rough and tumble style of play actually helps children, particularly boys, learn emotional control.

It turns out that an article in Developmental Review coming out in September, 2020, confirms what Kevin and I wrote all those years ago. The article, entitled “Father-Child play: A Systematic Review of its Frequency, Characteristics and Potential Impact on Children’s Development," is a meta-analysis of nearly 80 articles that look at what the research says about the frequency and characteristics of father-child play and the influence of play with dads on children’s development.

We know from previous research that white police officers (and other white adults) tend to view Black adolescents and adults as more dangerous and threatening than white teens and adults. Now, there is new research that suggests that prospective teachers may also misperceive Black children.

The findings of a new study was published online in Emotion, an American Psychological Association journal.

It’s inevitable, isn’t it? You will have conflict with your adolescent at some time or another.

After all, they are becoming autonomous and independent; they won’t always agree with you or want to do things your way.