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

Offending in young people is deeply entwined with impulsive behavior and particular group norms. This is supported by a recent study that found young burgla...

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

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

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 infectious diseases ...

Traits are often much stronger than talents in predicting where people are most happiest. When developing peoples sense of their future aspirations it can b...

Throughout 2019, Developing Health & Independence (DHI), have been marking their 20th anniversary as a charity by looking to the future. Through articles, ev...

Adolescents place a lot of emphasis on popularity and they are keenly aware of the difference between being liked and being popular. If forced to choose, man...

Studies over the past 20 years have found a correlation between the number of adverse childhood events (such as death or divorce) and worse health outcomes l...

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

How many times have you wished you could give your younger self a piece of advice? Robin Kowalski, professor in Clemson University's psychology department, i...

In lectures I often stress the importance of naming emotions in the client in the here and now. My mantra is always that a named emotion is a processed emot...

In a first of its kind review, published in World Psychiatry -- the world's leading psychiatric research journal, the researchers investigated leading hypoth...

Teenage girls with problematic social behavior display reduced brain activity and weaker connectivity between the brain regions implicated in emotion regulat...

Adolescence is associated with the maturation of cognitive functions, such as working memory, decision-making, and impulsivity control. This is a highly vuln...

DHI are celebrating their 20th anniversary of delivering services to vulnerable people and supporting their families. As part of this they are inviting thin...

I have just had a chapter on Young People and Complexity accepted for publication in a new book "Tackling Causes and Consequences of Health Inequalities: A P...

Daily cannabis use increased significantly from 2008 to 2016 among those with and without past-month serious psychological distress (SPD) and use among those...

In lectures and on this blog I have raised the issue of identity being geographical for some. in the conceptual language of David Goodheart, the world appea...

Identity formation is a major developmental task in adolescence but continues throughout adulthood. Significant individual differences, however, emerge. The ...