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How a Scary Diagnosis Taught Me to Cope With Stressful Uncertainty
… Studies have shown that exerting control over your situation proactively can help relieve the stress associated with waiting. As helpful methods for quelling anxiety, research participants waiting for medical-test results have cited familiarizing themselves
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Let Your Kids Fail
… Ann S. Masten, a developmental psychologist, describes resilience as “ordinary magic,” the result of normal developmental processes rather than extraordinary personal qualities. But those processes require what she calls “adaptive systems,” one of the
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Student Notebook: AI As a Tool, Not As a Therapist
How do the advantages of using artificial intelligence for mental health stack up against its weaknesses?
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Is It Healthy to Grieve Before a Loss?
… That honesty may help your overall healing process, added Mary-Frances O’Connor, a professor of psychology at the University of Arizona who studies grief and is the author of “The Grieving Body.” Research on late-stage cancer
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Feeling Betrayed By a Family Member? Here’s How To Cope
Social rejection by someone close to you can feel as acute as physical pain. If you felt as though your heart broke, or you’d been punched in the gut, that’s because social rejection and physical
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Are You in a Therapy Rut?
… “It’s unfortunately not uncommon to occasionally have a therapy session that feels like a dud,” said Alayna Park, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Oregon. But if after three or four
