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...
by Evergreen Psychotherapy | Aug 11, 2014 | Attachment, Theory & Research
Attachment style can have an impact on how teenagers process social-emotional information in interactions with those outside their family structure, says one social neuroscientist. Pascal Vrticka’s article in the Huffington Post talks about how often teens...
by Evergreen Psychotherapy | Aug 6, 2014 | Parenting, Theory & Research
Secure bonding and strong attachment can lead to less of a need to use corporal punishment but research reveals that spanking is not effective in the long-run because it can lead to increased aggression and poor self-control. According to a study from the Columbia...
by Evergreen Psychotherapy | Aug 4, 2014 | Attachment, Parenting, Theory & Research
Bad parenting and insecure bonding not only has an impact on a child’s behavioral development but can lead to actual changes in their genetics as they get older. This comes from two new studies, one from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and one from Tulane...