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Category Archives: Teens
Theory of Mind
Theory of Mind refers to a person’s ability to infer mental state in others. It is the ability to explain observable events based on desires or emotions, knowing that other people think differently from you, being able to take another [...]
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Teen Anxiety
Anxiety and stress levels in teenagers have drastically increased over the last few decades. As the pressures of the world around adolescents have increased, more and more teens are facing health problems both on the physical and on the emotional [...]
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Parenting Tip – Notice the Positives!
How many times a day do you, as a parent, have to correct your teen’s misbehavior with statements such as “Stop that,” “clean up your room,” or “how many times am I going to have to ask you to put [...]
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Video Games and Violence
Video games are becoming more violent and increasingly realistic as technology improves. In 2008 it was reported that 97% of young people ages 12-17 played some type of video game, and that two-thirds of them played games that contained violent [...]
Parenting Part 1 – “Does how I parent really matter?”
The type of Parenting Style a parent uses can positively or negatively affect a child’s level of confidence, self-worth, sense of security, interaction with peers and authority figures, and sense of self. Research has shown that Parenting Style has been found [...]
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Executive Functioning
Executive function is a term used to describe the many tasks our brains perform that are necessary to think, act, and solve problems. Executive functioning includes tasks that help us learn new information, remember and retrieve information we’ve learned in [...]
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My Teen is Growing Up
Adolescence is considered to be one of the most important phases in the developmental theory and developmental progress. It is the time when a child emerges from the latency period, pre-pubescence, where they are trying to figure out who they [...]
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The Importance of Breakfast
Breakfast or “breaking the fast” is an extremely important meal. Many people choose to skip this meal for a variety of reasons including: it saves time, people incorrectly think it is a good way to lose weight, or the person is [...]
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Bullying
Studies show that between 15-25% of U.S. students are bullied with some frequency. Bullying can have long-lasting effects. Youth who are bullied experience real suffering that can interfere with their social and emotional development. Bullying can cause your child to [...]
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Strengthening Your Brain
When you ask most people about strengthening their brain many people believe what they are born with it what they have for the rest of their life. Until recently, a popular misconception was that neurons die through life and do [...]
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