May is Mental Health Awareness Month, a time to raise awareness and promote education about mental health concerns. Mental health is an essential part [...]

Sexual assault refers to sexual contact, coercion, behavior or forced conduct that occurs without the explicit consent of the other individual. It is a [...]

Every culture has their own unique beliefs and traditions around why social connection is important, as well as their own preferences around how to foster [...]

The New Year is an exciting time full of fresh starts, new beginnings, infinite opportunities and a clean slate upon which to write all of [...]

Kindness and gratitude are concepts we grow up hearing about — as children, we’re instructed to treat people with kindness and to show gratitude by [...]

The teenage years are some of the most intense developmental years of the brain. This period is when the majority of mental illnesses develop, as [...]

People have differing perspectives and levels of awareness on the effects of domestic violence on family. Some may feel that abuse in the home is [...]

Traditionally in Western medicine, patients struggling with psychological conditions or disorders have been simply prescribed medication and then sent home. If that medication didn’t work, [...]

In the fields of clinical mental health and psychology, treatments and techniques are constantly being evaluated and reevaluated for the sake of the patients. When [...]

If you’re the parent of a teenager, you’ve probably wondered whether your teen is displaying signs of a mental health disorder or whether the behaviors [...]

Parenting, while rewarding, is an exhausting task. Suppressing your emotional burnout is unhealthy for you and your entire family. The hard work you do is [...]

Mental health care is a frequently under-addressed (even dismissed) matter in minority communities, especially those of Hispanic, African and Asian roots. On average, individuals within [...]

Racism — discrimination directed against someone based on their belonging to a particular racial or ethnic group, especially one that is marginalized — is responsible [...]

The violence in our world is appalling. It surely leaves adults dumbfounded, so it’s no surprise that kids also struggle to hear and understand the [...]

While raising a teenager can be quite challenging, being a teenager is even more challenging. As adolescents transition from childhood to adulthood, they are navigating [...]

Mood swings and other symptoms are often dismissed as typical behavior for teenagers, so it’s easy to miss signs of underlying mental health disorders in [...]