Tag: school psychology

School Psychologist Scott Greenspan discusses how to promote exercise and mental wellbeing for adolescents stuck indoors during the pandemic.

A new meta-analysis highlights a positive relationship between student emotional intelligence and academic achievement.

A new article examines the implications of relative age on the ADHD diagnosis.

Historical, current, and potential future complexities of cognitive assessment; a longstanding, controversial fixture in schools throughout the United States.

New research emphasizes the impact of school connectedness and community engagement interventions on students' mental health.

A new study examines the preventative effects of school-based mental health care when delivered by school personnel.

New research examines factors that make mindfulness interventions in school most effective for adolescent’s mental health outcomes.

Researchers explore efforts to integrate educational psychology and child psychiatry.

Why do ineffective classification and intervention processes linger in school psychology, and what’s the alternative?

One study indicates that pointed fingers incriminating youth for narcissism may be pointed in the wrong direction.

Are diagnoses of mental disorders among children and adolescents in developed countries disproportionate to disease prevalence trends?

The youngest children in a class are more likely to receive an ADHD diagnosis than their peers.

Officials at a school that was more focused on ADHD diagnoses described children’s behavior in terms of individual illnesses, taking children out of the context of their social interactions, race, gender, and socioeconomic status.

Results reflect moderate to strong evidence in support of the non-pharmacological school-based interventions reviewed in the study.