This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Depression in young people is vastly undertreated. About two-thirds of depressed youth don’t receive any mental health care at all. Of those who do, a significant proportion rely on antidepressant…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I have nowhere to go tonight. I am a 73-year-old woman who must now sleep in my car. I never thought I would ever become homeless. What do I do…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Supporting mental health and emotional well-being for changemakers boosts resilience, retention, and social impact, experience from The Wellbeing Project – an initiative co-created with Ashoka, Impact Hub, Porticus, the Skoll Foundation, and the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When disasters strike, the flood of images on TV and social media can have a powerful psychological impact on children – whether those children are physically in the line of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For some Americans, the COVID-19 pandemic has emerged as a source of traumatic stress that may predict post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, according to a new study. Research shows that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. People who feel depressed are more likely to believe vaccine-related misinformation, according to a new study. The research comes at a time when depression rates are higher due to the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Regular exercise can improve brain function and may protect against dementia in middle-aged and older adults, with women benefitting almost twice as much as men, according to new research. The…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. All students have unique strengths and needs that vary over time and are expressed differently. This year, the world has experienced extraordinary unforeseen challenges with the dual pandemics of COVID-19…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Los Angeles families are divided along racial lines and income levels over how well the Los Angeles Unified School District handled remote learning and other issues during the pandemic, a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s been one year since George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer set off the largest protests in U.S. history and a national reckoning with racism. Beyond the protests,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As an environmental psychologist who works to improve young people’s access to nature, I recently completed a review that brings two bodies of research together: one on connecting children and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Last summer’s heat dome caused more than record-breaking temperature increases – the extreme weather event contributed to rising anxiety about climate change, according to a new study. Researchers with the…