What are the options when a minor says to a mental health counselor, “Things have been really tough at home lately. Can I talk to you about it without my parents having to know?” ...

“We had a NICU stay of about two and a half months. That was not something I could have mentally prepared for at all. Everything was going so smoothly—until it wasn’t. That experience was rough. [...] ...

When you grow up in your biological family, you rarely stop to notice the little familiarities surrounding you. A laugh that sounds just like your father’s. A facial expression that mirrors your ...

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Optimism lives in a curious in-between space. It isn’t an outcome so much as an expectation about one. Yet optimism and pessimism each have immediate consequences for mental health. When we expect ...

Even with social skills, a person can still feel lonely in a conversation. You may have experienced this subtype of loneliness.

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Every day, trauma workers walk alongside people facing life’s darkest moments. The risks of this kind of work, like burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary traumatic stress, are well-known, but ...

Dedicated to Dr. Jane Goodall and the Jane Goodall Institute, whose work continues to inspire hope, action, and respect for all living beings. Jane Goodall devoted her life to demonstrating that our ...

When looking for the right romantic matches for you, are you ending up with zip? If you are "zip coding", that could be holding you back.

Toward the end of the 20th century, my colleagues and I won a “problems of the discipline” grant from the American Sociological Association to explore how to integrate new research and theory about ...

Believing big-picture change is impossible distorts our problems and limits our solutions. Here's how to recognize this pattern, rethink change, and expand your impact.