Students Articles
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- 4 Facts About Teen Depression and How Parents Can Help
Teens are known for being a moody, rebellious, egocentric and emotional bunch. But while this is ...
- Activities That Pay When There Are No Paying Jobs
It’s June. Your 15- or 16- or 17-year-old has halfheartedly, or even wholeheartedly, looked for a summer job. The competition is fierce. In a weak economy, adults are taking jobs that once were the ...
- Choosing Between the PsyD and PhD Psychology Graduate Degrees
Because clinical psychology programs are known for being competitive, most students don’t care so much where they get ...
- Teens with Intellectual Disability Have it Harder
Trudy is 16 and attends the local high school. Her mother tells me she’s always been an affectionate, optimistic ...
- Hints To Help Kids Get Enough Sleep
Setting healthy sleep habits when your child is young is key for their wellbeing. Here, Stephanie Silberman, Ph.D, clinical ...
- Better By Mistake: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong
Intellectually we know that making a mistake gives us the opportunity to learn and grow. Still, that usually does little to assuage our shame, embarrassment and guilt when making an error. Of course, it depends ...
- 7 Ways Parents Can Help Their Teens Get Enough Sleep
You might be surprised to learn that teens actually need more sleep than adults. Unfortunately, they tend to be ...
- What I Wish I Knew in Grad School: Current and Former Students Share 16 Tips
Graduate school is both an incredibly challenging and rewarding time in ...
- 8 Tips for a Successful Internship
You’ve finally received word that you’ve scored an internship site — a process that’s taken tremendous amounts of work and ...
- 9 Ideas for Increasing Your Chances of Matching
“The number of students seeking internships significantly outnumbers the availability of internship positions,” according to Sharon Berry, Ph.D, ...
- 8 Hints for Selecting an Internship Site
With so many internship sites to choose from, it can be hard to narrow down your search. What criteria ...
- Making the Most of Your Clinical Practicum
A practicum placement is a pivotal and exciting time in a student’s graduate school career. You’re finally putting all ...
- Turning Acquaintances Into Friends
Lonely?
Go on an Internet search for how to meet new people and you’ll find dozens of sites. You know the ...
- Tips for Keeping a Parent Emotionally Connected while Geographically Apart
The 2006 Census reported that 3.6 million married Americans were not living with their spouses. ...
- Help Your Intellectually Disabled Child Handle Bullying
“Sticks and stones will break my bones
But words will never hurt me.”
~Children’s chant
The chant is a lie! It may ...
- 12 Tips for Getting Organized for Adults with ADHD
Organizing is a challenge and a chore ...
- Intelligence Linked to Bipolar Disorder
Research has indicated that bipolar disorder may be up to four times more common in young people who were straight-A students.
A link between high IQ and bipolar disorder has been proposed for many years, ...
- Getting Around To It: Causes and Cures for Student Procrastination
I had to laugh at myself. While thinking about doing an article on procrastination, I looked like a classic ...
- When Your Son Thinks He Is Gay
Jean and Bill sought a psychological consult regarding their youngest son, Lucas, a senior in high school. Bill described a text message ...
- The Second Half of the Semester
Midterms are over and you are now confronted with the state of your grades. Maybe you did okay or even more than ...
- Girls Can Do Math: A Mathematical Memoir
If a chicken and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half, how fast is the ...
- Having a Smooth “Breakup” with Your College-Bound Teen
As fall approaches, many teenagers will be leaving home for the first time, headed to college. Families face many ...
- BRAVE: Be Ready and Victory’s Easy
BRAVE: Be Ready and Victory's Easy is a 96-page, large-print, softcover book is a quick and easy read geared toward helping children and parents find solutions for those who suffer from social anxiety. The story ...
- Money Matters: How To Make Allowances Work
Functioning in today's world requires the ability to manage money. From my point of view, it’s a disservice to let ...
- Mistake Phobia
Mistake phobia: No, it’s not a real diagnosis, although maybe it ought to be. I came up with the idea while listening to a mom talk about her 9-year-old ...