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From Newton to San Juan: Lucero Latino Mental Health Program Scholars Shine on a National Stage
In mid-October, when the annual conference of the National Latinx Psychological Association (NLPA) commenced in San Juan, Puerto Rico, William James College was well represented. In total, eleven current students and one recent graduate made the 1,600-mile trip due south to present slivers of their scholarly work via five poster presentations accepted from a pool of juried submissions. Following the group’s return to New England, a pair of conference participants shone a spotlight on the unique mental health needs of the Latino community and how William James College is working to meet them.
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Helping Children Cope with Stress
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...
Managing Anxiety
Anxiety is a common experience. Mild amounts are adaptive in that anxiety is the body’s way of alerting us to possible environmental danger. Anxiety can motivate positive action such as preparing for a presentation or even avoiding spiders. It only becomes problematic when experienced in excess, such...
Healthy Children, Healthy Families
In today’s fast-paced and information-saturated culture, parents often juggle multiple responsibilities and demands on their time. One of the best gifts we can give our children is to spend quality time with them; this is more meaningful than the actual quantity of time we are able to spend together....
Positive Psychology: Cultivating Strengths
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,...
Parenting Advice and Support
Parenthood can bring joy and sorrow. It can make one feel proud, tired, bored, and overwhelmed - sometimes all at once. It is the most important, most wonderful, and most difficult job ever.
Mindfulness Meditation
Mindfulness meditation is a discipline of mind training, and it has been variously defined by many different groups over the centuries. A good contemporary definition taken from Mindfulness and Psychotherapy by members of The Insititute for Meditation and Psychotherapy is "awareness of present experience...
Seeking Counseling
All of us go to see a physician and a dentist on a regular basis for preventative care and/or when we have physical and dental pain. So it is only natural
Preventing Violence Among Adolescents and Young Adults
Violent acts committed by youth are complex and often misunderstood phenomena. For example, many believe that rates of violent crime committed by youth
Facilitating Your Teen's Transition Into College
Few events are as poignant (and anxiety provoking) for parents as seeing a child off to college. Transitioning into college is a gradual process that
Welcoming Our Vets Home
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
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