by Evergreen Psychotherapy | Nov 3, 2014 | Parenting, Theory & Research, Uncategorized
New research suggests that limiting the amount of time your children use screens and media helps improve child development in multiple ways. Mark Bertin, a developmental behavioral pediatrician, writes in Psychology Today that kids between the ages of 8 and 18 spend...
by Evergreen Psychotherapy | Oct 6, 2014 | Psychology, Theory & Research
We always encourage parents to have regular conversations with their teen children to create secure bonding, but new research suggests that talking with depressed teens about how things can get better can help them cope better with their circumstances. David Yeager,...
by Evergreen Psychotherapy | Sep 29, 2014 | Parenting, Psychology, Theory & Research
We at Evergreen know the benefits of parents being more involved in their children’s lives, but one new study suggests that how parents talk to their children about weight loss and weight gain affects how much the children lose. “The study at Brown...
by Evergreen Psychotherapy | Sep 8, 2014 | Parenting, Theory & Research, Uncategorized
At Evergreen, we always encourage bonding between parents and children and regular family dinners can be a good way to do that But new research suggests that they can also help minimize the impacts of cyberbullying on our children. Researchers at the Institute for...
by Evergreen Psychotherapy | Sep 3, 2014 | Attachment, Parenting, Theory & Research
Sometimes it’s near impossible to predict what kind of parent someone will be before the child is born, but one study suggests parenting style can be predicted by having the potential parents play with dolls. According to a recent TIME article,...
by Evergreen Psychotherapy | Aug 18, 2014 | Attachment, Theory & Research, Uncategorized
Attachment style may be a factor in how many choose and interact with online gaming, according to a Huffington Post article. Psychologists John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth discovered in the 1960s and 1970s that children who displayed anxiety had insecure attachment...
