Childhood Adversity/Trauma

A new study examines the role parent borderline pathology plays in the perpetuation of childhood maltreatment.

Individuals who experience psychosis can also experience posttraumatic growth, which can be a central component of the recovery paradigm.

What physical activity-based programs are being implemented in schools, how are they being researched, and what kind of impact have they made?

Knowing the client’s history can help foster genuine empathic responding, a key component to child-centered play therapy.

A new study suggests proximity to green space as a child is linked to lower rates of mental health issues in adulthood.

Depression, serious psychological distress, and suicide attempts have risen substantially since the early 2000s among young adults – what’s changed?

The latest issue of the journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences features several prominent researchers arguing that mental health concerns are not “brain disorders.”

A new systematic review illustrates features of the relationship between anxiety and school attendance patterns.

Contemporary empirical research explores new ways to conceptualize and heal racial trauma through anticolonial and sociohistorical lenses.

A new analysis finds multiple antecedents of refugee prejudice, including religiousness, conservatism, and education.

The Youth-Nominated Support Team intervention invites adolescents to select adults in their life to receive training on how to support them.

Researchers explore pathways of healing racial trauma in Latinx immigrant communities.

Researchers evaluate the impact of a school-based prevention program on anxious and depressive symptoms.

Authors propose various pathways to the phenomena of voice-hearing in clinical and nonclinical populations.

Greater perceptions of discrimination during adolescence are linked to more depressive and internalizing symptoms.

New research points to numerous harmful effects of high-level lead exposure in childhood on adult mental health and personality characteristics.

While well intentioned, providers and volunteers can do more harm than good at the border. The Global Psychosocial Network issues guidelines on how to work for the benefit of migrants and refugees.

Individuals diagnosed with a psychotic disorder are 4-6 times more likely than the general population to experience victimization.

Attempting to locate the mechanisms of psychiatric disorder is a step in the wrong direction and fails to challenge potentially unjust social practices.

A new paper explores how the disputed nature of psychiatric knowledge influences public perceptions and debates within the field of mental health.

A new article suggests integrating physical activity throughout the day may help to address the mental health of students.

As an increasing amount of research seeks to address the epidemic of loneliness, conceptual clarity is needed.

The postmodern zeitgeist of the past few decades encourages us to believe that we can endlessly reinvent ourselves untethered to our human biology. But the explosion of research on the microbiome reminds us that we are deeply embedded in an ecosystem that lives within us and around us, without which we cannot survive.

Study questions how international psychiatric treatment of street children in Cairo could be reinforcing their marginality and vulnerability.

Researchers detect a striking relationship between the month of school enrollment relative to peers and patterns of ADHD diagnoses in a large sample of elementary school students throughout the US.