Author: Alexis Paul During the past two years, our world has been living in a pandemic – ultimately creating stress for many individuals and families. As such, with the new stressors we have faced, conversations regarding mental health and how to engage in self-care activities have been happening now more

Author: Alex Kohn, M.A. The holidays and New Year season often involve time spent in social gatherings, including end-of-year celebrations at work as well as extended time with family or friends. While the holiday season is often a joyous time, it can also be stressful for many, involving difficult emotions

Author: Wayne Fraser It is important to understand the way that people evaluate risk at different ages. Adults are generally perceived as having better risk assessment than adolescents. Research implications have continuously dismissed this belief. Adolescent risk behavior is usually attributed to unrealistic feelings of invulnerability. Researchers have stated that

Author: Marzena Podkalicka M.A., AT Sometimes we experience uneasiness, worry, nervousness, or fear before confronting something new or challenging. Generally, these feelings are normal. However, when a person is constantly worried over different activities or events, and the worry begins to cause distress and discomfort, they may be suffering from

Author: Nicole Fusco, M.S. Acceptance and commitment therapy has shown to be an effective treatment approach for many mental health disorders including psychosis (Wakefield et al., 2018). For individuals diagnosed with a psychotic disorder, goals to eliminate symptoms or to return to previous functioning may not be feasible. Thus, ACT

Author: Meredith Cola, B.A. Historically, autism research has primarily focused on what researchers or other non-autistic people think is important. Autistic self-advocates have been calling for more research priorities that reflect the autistic community’s needs and are informed by autistic perspectives. This month, you have the opportunity to tell the

Author: Mallory Inselberg, M.A. College can be a stressful time! For students who are just beginning their post-high school education, for students who are figuring out what post-undergraduate education life will be like, and for students who return to higher-level graduate education later in life, stress is around every corner.

Author: Laura Frank, M.A. Recent research examining the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic has identified key COVID-19-related stressors, including fear of infection, disruptions to school/leaning and daily self-care routines, and lack of access to reliable information and resources. Studies examining family stress have found that the intensity of these identified

Author: Janessa Brown, M.S. There is little debate across healthcare disciplines as to what constitutes an adverse childhood experience (ACE). ACEs are often conceptualized as any occurrence of maltreatment or other aversive experiences that are sustained in childhood. Though the designation of age ranges representing childhood may differ, most sources

Author: Alex Kohn, M.A. Children and adolescents around the world have endured difficulties during the past year and a half adjusting to life during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specific to academics, youth have been uprooted from in-person learning, have had to adapt to remote learning, and have had to manage uncertainty