child development

Five Things You Don’t Expect When You’re Expecting: How Parenthood Impacts Your Mental Health

If it suddenly feels like anywhere you go, you’re surrounded by heavily pregnant women, it... >>

Identifying Your Child’s Attachment Style

In the following interview, Dr. Dan Siegel talks about the different types of attachment styles... >>

Identifying Your Child’s Attachment Style

In the following interview, Dr. Dan Siegel talks about the different types of attachment styles that... >>

The Link Between LGBT Youth, Bullying, and Suicide

In 1989, when the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released a public report... >>

Preventing Gang Violence: Why Kids Become Violent

Read an exclusive interview with Father Greg Boyle, founder of Homeboy Industries, the largest gang... >>

Learning from My Students

In honor of back-to-school season, here is a story from a PsychAlive reader about lessons... >>

Exercise: Who Do You See When You Look at Your Child?

One of the biggest challenges for us as parents is remembering that our children are... >>

Dr. Pat Love on Parenting

Dr. Pat Love on what it is to parent, and the mistaken conceptions of parenting... >>

The Over-Parenting Syndrome

Recently several best-selling books as well as a number of child development experts have focused... >>

A Parent’s Shorthand Guide to the College Transition

High school graduation is a culmination of emotions, a push-and-pull of opposing feelings on the... >>