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Bringing Evidence-Based Mental-Health Care to Children Worldwide
According to the World Health Organization (2011), South Africa has 0.27 psychiatrists and 0.31 psychologists per 100,000 people, while Lebanon has 1.41 psychiatrists and 2.12 psychologists for 100,000 people. The lack of mental health providers
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There’s Another Big Window for Learning After Childhood
New York Magazine: Children rightly have a reputation for being little knowledge sponges, absorbing all the information that’s around them. But if you happen to not be a child, take heart: There’s new evidence that
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A Surprising New Way to Encourage Healthy Eating
Scientific American: Autonomy, peer relationships, and parental conflict — these are the universal themes that made the popular 1990s comic Zits identifiable for anyone who has, or has been, a teenager. In one strip, hands
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This might be why depression is rising among teen girls
CNN: There has been a significant climb in the prevalence of major depression among adolescents and young adults in recent years — and the troubling trend may be strongest in teenage girls, according to a
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Older teenagers ‘quicker to improve maths and reasoning skills’
The Guardian: Older teenagers and young adults are able to improve their fundamental maths skills and reasoning abilities more rapidly than younger teens, according to research that overturns longstanding assumptions about children’s learning. The research
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Good News: You’ve Got a Better Brain Than You Think
TIME: If babies could gloat, they would. The rest of us may have it all over them when it comes to size, strength and basic table manners, but brain power? Forget it. The brain you