Child Development

Blog

All Posts
Young People
Neuroscience
Adult Drug and Alcohol
Psychology
Research
Phil Harris
Drug Prevention
Genetics
Motivational Interviewing
Alcohol
Smoking
Social Mobility
History
Vaping
AA
Boswyns
Treatment
Emotional Intelligence
Child Development
Superforecasting
Cannabis
Parents
Professional Development
Policy
Real Time Feedback
Drugs
LSD
Behavioral Economics
PIE
Severe and Multiple Disadvantage

Sep 11
3 min

Marshmallows verses Pride

As my colleagues in Cornwall will testify, I love a Marshmallow test. The classic experiment has been reproduced several times in differ...

3 viewsWrite a comment

Roughhouse Play: The Stuff of Emotional Control

Phil Harris

Jul 1
4 min

Roughhouse Play: The Stuff of Emotional Control

The golden rule of parenting is that roughhouse play always ends in tears. The rough and tumble of play fighting with dad however is muc...

9 viewsWrite a comment

Screen time: Parent-Child Interaction Effect

Phil Harris

Jun 16
3 min

Screen time: Parent-Child Interaction Effect

A first of its kind in Canada, the study found parents of young children reporting high levels of life or parenting stress were less like...

4 viewsWrite a comment

Phil Harris

Apr 27
17 min

Personality Part I: The Research Base

I recently watched the Netflix documentary “Three Identical Strangers.” Without too much of a spoiler alert, triplets who were separated...

66 viewsWrite a comment

Phil Harris

Feb 12
1 min

The End of Family?

Outside of work, I am a very keen family historian. It fascinates me how people lived everyday lives in past millennia and how their ch...

23 viewsWrite a comment

Parenting: High Demand Children with Low Resourced Parents in Hospital

Phil Harris

Jan 14
3 min

Parenting: High Demand Children with Low Resourced Parents in Hospital

I have long suggested that parenting does not belong solely to a parent. Parenting style is determined where the resources of a parent m...

14 viewsWrite a comment

Infection: What Role Does it Have in Schizophrenia?

Phil Harris

Jan 14
6 min

Infection: What Role Does it Have in Schizophrenia?

My first day back at work in 2020 was with a fantastic team of mental health housing workers. We had an extensive debate on the role of ...

29 viewsWrite a comment

Attachment Special: Where is the Internal Working Model?

Phil Harris

Dec 12, 2019
14 min

Attachment Special: Where is the Internal Working Model?

I have recently had a series of debates with psychologists, social workers and family workers around the country regarding Attachment The...

67 viewsWrite a comment

Phil Harris

Oct 3, 2019
3 min

Hearing Voices Starts in Infancy

Some people suffering from severe mental illness, particularly schizophrenia, hear "voices," known as auditory hallucinations. This sympt...

14 viewsWrite a comment

Phil Harris

Sep 23, 2019
3 min

When is a Child an Adult?

When does childhood end? That's the question international researchers are asking as they chart age cut-offs for paediatric services arou...

18 viewsWrite a comment

Phil Harris

Aug 30, 2019
3 min

Parental Burnout

This is a timely study after the end of the long summer holiday. In lectures I often discuss how parenting is bi-directional. Parenting...

5 viewsWrite a comment

Are Traumatized Children Cortisol Tolerant?

Phil Harris

Jun 10, 2019
3 min

Are Traumatized Children Cortisol Tolerant?

Experiences such as poverty, residential instability, or parental divorce or substance abuse, also can lead to changes in a child's brain...

13 viewsWrite a comment

Attachment: When is Good Enough Good Enough?

Phil Harris

May 13, 2019
9 min

Attachment: When is Good Enough Good Enough?

What really matters in caring for babies may be different than commonly thought, says Lehigh University researcher Susan S. Woodhouse, an...

43 viewsWrite a comment

Phil Harris

Apr 8, 2019
2 min

Poverty Written into Your Genes?

A new Northwestern University study challenges prevailing understandings of genes as immutable features of biology that are fixed at conc...

8 viewsWrite a comment

Babies Recognize Friendly Verses Strangers Laughter

Phil Harris

Mar 12, 2019
3 min

Babies Recognize Friendly Verses Strangers Laughter

Ever intrigued by the concept of laughter as alliance and power, I was interested to read this recent study that showed babies can detect...

3 viewsWrite a comment

Phil Harris

Feb 11, 2019
3 min

Grandma Theory Works-With Limits

Humans are unusual in that women go through menopause and stop reproducing long before reaching the end of their life expectancy. This is...

16 viewsWrite a comment

Babies Detect Individual Words at 3 Days Old

Phil Harris

Jan 30, 2019
2 min

Babies Detect Individual Words at 3 Days Old

Babies are not blank slates. They come with a lot of pre-programming that is awaiting activation. A great example of this is language. ...

7 viewsWrite a comment

Phil Harris

Dec 2, 2018
4 min

ADHD Gene Breakthrough

A major international collaboration headed by researchers from the Danish iPSYCH project, the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Massach...

4 viewsWrite a comment

Parietal Brain Protects Kids from Neighborhood Violence Stresses

Phil Harris

Nov 29, 2018
2 min

Parietal Brain Protects Kids from Neighborhood Violence Stresses

Neighborhood violence has been associated with adverse health effects on youth, including sleep loss, asthma and metabolic syndrome. Yet ...

3 viewsWrite a comment

Phil Harris

Nov 14, 2018
1 min

Autism Study Show Male Trait Bias

A large scale study has found that people with autism show higher male trait scores in systemic thinking over empathetic thinking, above w...

3 viewsWrite a comment

{"items":["5f5b8fb08dac650017bcf96c","5efc69ca7ce4e8001725ac12","5ee8b4854b30b1001782d77b","5eaab0ca65967c001717d31d","5eaab0ca1ab8d00017c045ad","5eaab0ca1ab8d00017c045ac","5eaab0cada342a0017c1aba6","5eaab0c91ab8d00017c045ab","5eaab0c84b130b00173ee6d2","5eaab0c8031e7e0017e7dfb4","5eaab0c8fe3e99001712e38b","5eaab0c70fb34a001722fc0a","5eaab0c737a1b10017ebd482","5eaab0c6c480800017b9553d","5eaab0c6031e7e0017e7dfb2","5eaab0c6fbbbe3001868eb2f","5eaab0c6fe3e99001712e384","5eaab0c5400b6400172afd4e","5eaab0c5824cdb0017877fb6","5eaab0c54dc28e0017fb835a"],"styles":{"galleryType":"Columns","groupSize":1,"showArrows":true,"cubeImages":true,"cubeType":"fill","cubeRatio":1.3333333333333333,"isVertical":true,"gallerySize":940,"collageAmount":0,"collageDensity":0,"groupTypes":"1","oneRow":false,"imageMargin":16,"galleryMargin":0,"floatingImages":0,"chooseBestGroup":true,"smartCrop":false,"hasThumbnails":false,"enableScroll":true,"isGrid":true,"isSlider":false,"isColumns":false,"isSlideshow":false,"cropOnlyFill":false,"fixedColumns":1,"enableInfiniteScroll":true,"isRTL":false,"minItemSize":50,"rotatingGroupTypes":"","rotatingCubeRatio":"","gallerySliderImageRatio":1.7777777777777777,"numberOfImagesPerRow":1,"numberOfImagesPerCol":1,"groupsPerStrip":0,"borderRadius":0,"boxShadow":0,"gridStyle":1,"mobilePanorama":false,"placeGroupsLtr":false,"viewMode":"preview","thumbnailSpacings":4,"galleryThumbnailsAlignment":"bottom","isMasonry":false,"isAutoSlideshow":false,"slideshowLoop":false,"autoSlideshowInterval":4,"useCustomButton":false,"bottomInfoHeight":0,"titlePlacement":"SHOW_ON_THE_RIGHT","galleryHorizontalAlign":"center","galleryTextAlign":"center","galleryVerticalAlign":"center","scrollSnap":false,"itemClick":"expand","fullscreen":true,"allowSocial":true,"allowDownload":false,"allowTitle":true,"allowDescription":false,"loveButton":true,"loveCounter":false,"videoPlay":"hover","scrollAnimation":"NO_EFFECT","scrollDirection":0,"overlayAnimation":"FADE_IN","arrowsPosition":0,"arrowsSize":23,"watermarkOpacity":40,"watermarkSize":40,"useWatermark":true,"watermarkDock":{"top":"auto","left":"auto","right":0,"bottom":0,"transform":"translate3d(0,0,0)"},"loadMoreAmount":"all","defaultShowInfoExpand":1,"allowTitleExpand":true,"allowDescriptionExpand":true,"allowLinkExpand":true,"expandInfoPosition":0,"allowFullscreenExpand":true,"fullscreenLoop":false,"galleryAlignExpand":"left","addToCartBorderWidth":1,"addToCartButtonText":"","slideshowInfoSize":200,"playButtonForAutoSlideShow":false,"allowSlideshowCounter":false,"hoveringBehaviour":"NEVER_SHOW","thumbnailSize":120,"magicLayoutSeed":1,"imageHoverAnimation":"NO_EFFECT","calculateTextBoxHeightMode":"AUTOMATIC","calculateTextBoxWidthMode":"PERCENT","textBoxHeight":0,"textBoxWidth":200,"textBoxWidthPercent":50,"textImageSpace":10,"textBoxBorderRadius":0,"textBoxBorderWidth":0,"textsVerticalPadding":0,"textsHorizontalPadding":-30,"titleDescriptionSpace":6,"customButtonText":"","customButtonBorderWidth":1,"customButtonBorderRadius":0,"loadMoreButtonText":"","loadMoreButtonBorderWidth":1,"loadMoreButtonBorderRadius":0,"imageInfoType":"ATTACHED_BACKGROUND","itemBorderWidth":1,"itemBorderRadius":0,"itemEnableShadow":false,"itemShadowBlur":20,"itemShadowDirection":135,"itemShadowSize":10,"imageLoadingMode":"BLUR","expandAnimation":"NO_EFFECT","imageQuality":90,"usmToggle":false,"usm_a":0,"usm_r":0,"usm_t":0,"videoSound":false,"videoSpeed":"1","videoLoop":true,"gallerySizeType":"px","gallerySizePx":940,"allowContextMenu":true,"itemBorderColor":{"themeName":"color_12","value":"rgba(238,238,238,0.75)"},"galleryLayout":2,"modifiedGallerySize":true,"selectedLayout":"2|bottom|1|fill|true|0|true","layoutsVersion":2,"selectedLayoutV2":2,"isSlideshowFont":false,"externalInfoHeight":0,"externalInfoWidth":0.5},"container":{"width":940,"galleryWidth":972,"galleryHeight":1440,"scrollBase":0,"height":null}}

Phil Harris

freespace

​

Blog