What Research Says About Gender Representation in…

In April of this year, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) called for an investigation into the TV ratings system to assess whether or not “content related to gender identity” was being “adequately flagged for parents.” Though that phrasing could be interpreted broadly, the full statement makes clear that the government agency is not worried about […]

When to Announce Your Pregnancy: What the Research Says

(By Eva Ritvo, MD and Stephanie Lechich, PhD) When Dr. L walked into her dinner meeting at 10 weeks pregnant, she hesitated before speaking. A clinical psychologist with a busy practice, she’d counseled women through fertility challenges and early pregnancy anxiety. Now she faced her own private reckoning: Should she share the news? The familiar […]

IFS Research: Group Therapy for PTSD and Substance Use

This post was co-authored by Martha Sweezy, Dilara Ally, Laure Tobiasz Veltz, Alexandra Comeau, Clare Bumpus, Tori Blot, Fiona Kate Rice, Brian Orr, Hanna Soumerai Rea, and Zev Schuman-Olivier. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) co-occurs with substance use disorder (SUD) at high rates of between 30 and 60 percent. Present-centered treatments for PTSD-SUD are generally group-based, […]

Kids Today: Thoughts From Research, Practice, and the Classroom

Across time and generations, elders have often bemoaned with exasperation, “Kids today!” As a quintessential “baby boomer,” I often hear same-aged peers complain about youth (e.g., those born between the late 1990s and early 2000s). While developmental psychologists eschew using broad labels to describe large generational cohorts (i.e., the Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, Gen X, […]

Research Says: Let Your Teen Sleep In

How hard was it to get your teens out of bed this weekend? Many teenagers—and let’s be honest, adults, too—like to bank some extra hours of sleep on Saturdays and Sundays. If you’re the kind of parent who likes your kids to get up early on weekends so they don’t get too far off their […]

How Research Cuts Are Hurting the Science of a…

Recently, Toni Antonucci, a senior researcher at the University of Michigan, received a $13 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). For decades, she and her colleagues had been running the National Study of American Life, studying the social determinants of health in preventing and treating Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias in Black […]