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Parenting Education: How to help your children after trauma
By New England Psychologist Staff
Some basics for managing trauma in your child:
In some ways, helping children recover from traumatic experiences, can be simple. In other ways, the...
Maine launches initiatives to address pandemic-related issues
By Phyllis Hanlon
Approximately nine months after the COVID-19 virus was identified in the United States, Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) launched StrengthenME, an...
What’s the State of Cannabis Oil in the U.S.? Legality, Popularity, and More
By Danielle Ray
The State of Cannabis Oil in the U.S.: Legality, Popularity and More
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Psychologists offer advice to parents during this chaotic time
By Catherine Robertson Souter
To say this has been a trying year for humans is to put it mildly. Everything has been thrown up into the air. From fears of a loved one getting sick to the stress of financial...
COVID-19 has tripled depression rate
By New England Psychologist Staff
A new study finds that 27.8 percent of U.S. adults had symptoms of depression as of mid-April 2020, compared to 8.5 percent before the COVID-19 pandemic.
“This...
Long term results of parental alienation to the alienated child
By New England Psychologist Staff
(Source: Dr. Lori Love, Custody Evaluations 101: Allegations and Sensitivities)
What are the long-term effects of parental alienation on the child who...
Understanding collective trauma
By New England Psychologist Staff
Collective trauma can be understood as a response to a one-time event, or as a response to a long-term event. The first type of collective trauma can occur when a...
Woodside’s fate remains up in the air
By New England Psychologist Staff
The fate of Woodside Juvenile Rehabilitation Center, Vermont’s only juvenile detention facility, is up in the air.
While state officials work to figure out what’s...
Racial Identity: Key to self-understanding
By New England Psychologist Staff
Recent race-related protests have brought deep-seated inequity and injustice that pervades our national consciousness to the forefront. Those who seek to understand the...
COVID-19 means different approach to Stress in America survey
By Phyllis Hanlon
Since 2007, the American Psychological Association (APA) has been gauging the nation’s attitudes and perception of stress with its annual Stress in America...