Novelty-seeking adolescents are often labeled as irrational, lazy and even violent. Now, a new study further justifies it by claiming that novelty-seeking tendencies in teenagers may promote problematic impulsive behaviors including drug use. According to the study published in Nature Communications on Feb. 21, 2017, brain scans can help identify personality traits in teenagers that […]

Technology is such a major part of our lives, especially for children and teens, but could it be the future way that we deliver therapy? Already, we have seen the growth of -health services in the form of teletherapy and online therapies delivered through texting, cell phones, apps and computers to overcome the challenges that […]

Shopping, making reservations, gaming, keeping up with friends and family: Ask most people what they do online, the answer is likely to be one of those. But receive psychotherapy? Shouldn’t that be done in an office somewhere? Maybe not. A new study recently presented at the annual meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine […]

What is therapy, exactly? Therapy is when someone lies down on a couch and talks to clinician. Or therapy is a group of people gathered in a circle of chairs and working through their problems. Serious, often cathartic business, in other words. Therapy certainly doesn’t look like a group of people acting out scenes. Or […]

America is experiencing a mental health crisis in which depression and anxiety have become commonplace and suicide is a leading cause of death. The addiction epidemic is getting worse and socioeconomic distress is adding additional stress to families. Families suffering under such enormous pressure are fracturing, and now more than half of American children are […]