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New research identifies key mental health risk factors for children ...

Interestingly, a child's personal perceptions of how severe the event was had a stronger impact on their mental health ...

New research reveals link between childhood mental health ...

"Our analysis shows that mental health problems in childhood are linked with a wide range of functional issues in adulthood, beyond the realms ...

New study reveals lasting impact of childhood adversity on brain ...

The goal of this study was to investigate whether it was possible to identify patterns of atypical brain development in a large, population- ...

Science News About Children and Adolescents

Researchers in the NIMH Intramural Research Program have developed a new way to measure the degree to which the proportions of an individual person's brain ...

Youth with conduct disorder show widespread differences in brain ...

NIH-funded study of conduct disorder identifies new brain areas associated with the disorder, offering future directions for research efforts and clinical ...

Researchers identify causal genetic variant linked to common ...

The study provides new insight into the importance of the hypothalamus of the brain and its role in common childhood obesity and the target gene ...

Young children who are close to their parents are more likely to ...

The University of Cambridge study used data from more than 10,000 people born between 2000 and 2002 to understand the long-term interplay ...

Developmental Assets Framework | Search Institute

... research-based resources to build strong relationships with all young people. ... The Developmental Assets Framework identifies 40 research-based, positive ...

How can scientists better understand, promote, and support ...

Researchers review over 170 studies on childhood curiosity, highlighting its role in learning and development while calling for more ...

Toxic Stress - Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University

The future of any society depends on its ability to foster the healthy development of the next generation. Extensive research on the biology of stress now ...

Health advisory on social media use in adolescence

For instance, access to peers that allows LGBTQIA+ and questioning adolescents to provide support to and share accurate health information with one another is ...

Young Trans Children Know Who They Are A new study shows that ...

Young Trans Children Know Who They Are A new study shows that gender-nonconforming kids who go on to transition already have a strong sense of ...

Childhood nature connection and constructive hope: A review of ...

To ensure that it includes more recent work and studies that investigate associations between nature connection and other facets of child ...

Social media brings benefits and risks to teens. Psychology can help ...

New psychological research exposes the harms and positive outcomes of social media ... new connections,” Nesi said. “On social media, they ...

Development of Gender Non-Contentedness During Adolescence ...

For the current study, the first six assessment Waves were used, covering the developmental period between late childhood (T1: 10–12 years of ...

Developmental theories: Past, present, and future - ScienceDirect

A newer biological model for psychology involves epigenetics, which is of special interest to developmentalists because it addresses a longstanding ...

Body image in childhood - Mental Health Foundation

Among adolescents, research has found that those with greater body appreciation are less likely to diet or use alcohol or cigarettes (5). Body dissatisfaction ...

Chapter: 4 Child Development and Early Learning

Infants and toddlers derive implicit theories to explain the actions of objects and the behavior of people; these theories form the foundation for causal ...

The Lifelong Effects of Early Childhood Adversity and Toxic Stress

The EBD framework described in this article presents a new way to think about the underlying biological mechanisms that explain this robust link ...

Examining the Relationship Between Childhood Trauma and ...

The researchers found evidence to suggest that some specific types of traumatic experiences may increase the risk for juvenile justice ...