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Elevated Rates of Mental Health Problems Among Survivors of Tsunami
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Adult and children in the tsunami-affected areas in Thailand have elevated rates of mental health problems such as symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder and depression up to 9 months after the disaster, according to two studies in the August 2 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on violence and human r...
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Physiological Markers for Cutting, Other Self Harming Behaviors by Teenage Girls Found
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Non-fatal, self-inflicted injuries by adolescent and young adult females are major public health problems and researchers have found physiological evidence that this behavior may lead to a more serious psychological condition called borderline personality disorder.
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Helping Children Handle Stress, Emotions May Help Stuttering
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Children who stutter often face greater challenges managing their behavior and emotions than other children, researchers have found, offering new insight into how to help these children in a more holistic way.
“Our findings indicate that young children who stutter are more apt to be emotion...
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Are American Students Ready for the Global Age?
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On the heels of the publication of Dr. J. Michael Adams’ new book, Coming of Age in a Globalized World: The Next Generation, three recent reports confirm his findings that colleges are not adequately preparing their students for the demands of a global economy or the challenges of an interconnected...
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Memory as Motivator
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What do we do with our memories when we don’t have closure? In research conducted at the University of Arkansas, participants with still-open autobiographical memories were significantly more likely to meet assigned goals than those who had found closure.
“Memory is extremely powerful,” s...
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Study Tells Parents How to Get on the Same Page with Their Teens
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A new study out of Brigham Young University sought to understand what teens think about the appropriateness of their parents’ reactions to their behaviors. The upshot: whether parents are perceived negatively by their adolescents or not depends on the situation.
The research, published in...
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Increasingly Forgetful? There Are Benefits to Finding Out Why
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What you don’t know about Alzheimer’s disease could hurt you, according to the July issue of Mayo Clinic Women’s HealthSource. That’s why it’s important to seek medical attention if you experience warning signs of Alzheimer’s disease:
Increasing and persistent forgetfulness
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Adding Weight to Toys May Help Improve Children’s Fitness
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Adding weight to toys may serve as a way to improve children’s fitness, according to research at Indiana State University.
Professor John Ozmun and graduate student Lee Robbins conducted the study with 7- and 8-year-old children, who carried 3-pound weighted and unweighted cardboard block...
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Young Are Most Socially Minded Among UK Entrepreneurs
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The largest, annual survey of social entrepreneurial activity (SEA) in the United Kingdom shows that young people are more likely to be social entrepreneurs than any other age grouping: 3.9% of those in the 18 – 24 year-old category would pursue a socially minded enterprise, compared to only 2.75 o...
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Movies in the Classroom: Time-Filler Or Teaching Tool?
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School’s out now, but the past few weeks have seen the usual ritual of end-of-year activities, like exams, field trips, ice cream parties and — watching movies in school.
New research shows that American teachers commonly use film, television and videotape materials for reasons that are not d...
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