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Preventing Violence Among Adolescents and Young Adults

• By Robert Kinscherff, PhD, JD, Associate Vice President for Community Engagement
• October 5, 2015

Violent acts committed by youth are complex and often misunderstood phenomena. For example, many believe that rates of violent crime committed by youth

Spirituality in Daily Living

• By Bob Childs, PsyD, Core Faculty in the Clinical Psychology Department
• October 5, 2015

It is not uncommon for people to feel a lack of meaning in their lives, whether following a difficult life event, reaching middle age or just plain too

Healthy Eating

• By Allyson Cherkasky
• October 5, 2015

Eating is an essential and everyday human function. Everyone knows how to eat; but not everyone knows how to eat well, that is, in a way that promotes health. Healthy eating requires taking into account not only on what we eat, but also on how we eat it - and why.

Positive Psychology: Cultivating Strengths

• By Claire Fialkov
• October 5, 2015

Positive Psychology is the scientific study of what makes life worth living by exploring the positive emotions, thought, behavior patterns, and relationships that contribute to human flourishing. Positive psychology is not about being happy all of the time, but rather about valuing positive emotions,...

Welcoming Our Vets Home

• By Robert Dingman, EdD, Director of the Concentration on Military and Veterans Psychology; Core Faculty in the Clinical Psychology Department
• October 5, 2015

Many veterans returning from Afghanistan, like those who served in Iraq and other wars, come home with invisible wounds. They often look the same, but

How Great Companies Innovate

• By Staff Report
• October 5, 2015

Surf Your Anxiety

• By Brian Ott, PhD, Core Faculty in the Clinical Psychology Department
• October 5, 2015

Our bodies have an emergency system that does a wonderful job helping us survive life- threatening situations. It works automatically and involves the

Technology, Children, and the Internet

• By Nadja Lopez, PhD, Associate Director of the Richard I. and Joan L. Freedman Center for Child and Family Development
• October 5, 2015

A recent national survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 8-18 year-olds spend an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes using media across a typical

Successful Aging

• By Erlene Rosowsky, PsyD, Director of the Center for Mental Health and Aging; Core Faculty in the Clinical Psychology Department
• October 5, 2015

Getting older has its challenges. The iconic bumper sticker “Old age is not for sissies” had it right. It’s not. The good news is that older adults are

Helping Children Cope with Stress

• By Bruce Ecker
• October 5, 2015

Today’s children are growing up in an increasingly complex world. They routinely encounter multiple sources of adversity and stress in their homes, schools, peer groups, communities, and the media. Despite this, however, children can be highly resilient, and there is much we can do to help them cope...