When Campus Life Feels Too Much: How Creativity and Mind-Body Practices Can Strengthen Well-Being
When stress becomes the background noise of university life University is often described as a time of growth, but it can also be a time when stress quietly becomes “normal.” Deadlines stack up, money worries sit in the back of the mind, and social pressure can make everyday life feel like a performance. Staff are […]
When Teachers Become the Front Line for Child Mental Health
When a child’s feelings start affecting their learning In many primary classrooms, “mental health” is not a distant, specialist topic—it shows up as a child who cannot settle, a child who melts down over small changes, or a usually engaged pupil who suddenly stops trying. For teachers, these moments arrive alongside spelling tests, playground disputes, […]
Teaching Compassion Online: What ACT Training Gave Bereavement Volunteers—and Why It Matters
When Help Is a Human Voice: Training Grief Volunteers in a Digital Age When someone dies, the first responders are often not therapists but neighbors, friends, and trained volunteers. These volunteers are the steady voices on helplines, the listeners in community services, and the people who help hold the immediate shock of loss. Yet their […]
Screening in a Single PE Class: FUNMOVES Brings Early Motor-Skills Checks to Spanish Schools
Spotting Struggles Early: Why a Simple School Test Can Change a Child’s Day Some children avoid playground games, dread team sports, or stumble over simple tasks like catching a ball or hopping on one foot. These are not just quirks. For many, they reflect real challenges with movement known as Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD). DCD […]
Listening to Those Most Affected: Youth-Led Paths to Confront Ableism and Racism
When Discrimination Piles Up, Young People Pay the Price Bias does not arrive in neat categories. For many young people, it stacks—race, disability, gender, language—shaping how teachers grade, how doctors listen, how bosses hire, and how police respond. The Perspectives of racially minoritized youth with disabilities on addressing ableism and other forms of discrimination research […]
When Parent Mental Health Echoes Across Generations: Insights from a Swedish Twin Family Study
Why Family Mental Health Patterns Are Not Just About DNA or Parenting Many parents who have struggled with depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, or substance use ask a painful, practical question: What does this mean for my child? Mental health problems often cluster in families, but it has been hard to tell how much of that […]
When Psychologists Need Support Too
When Healers Face the Same Storm They Treat Psychologists spent the COVID-19 crisis helping others manage fear, grief, and relentless uncertainty. But who was looking after them? The research paper Depression, anxiety, and stress levels during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study among Indonesian psychologists turns the lens onto the healers themselves. It follows a […]
Holding On and Reaching Out: What COVID-19 Taught Older Malaysians About Connection and Control
When Everyday Routines Turned Risky for Older Adults in the Klang Valley When the pandemic hit, everyday routines—buying vegetables at the wet market, morning tai chi at the park, Friday prayers, weekend visits from grandkids—suddenly felt risky. For older adults in Malaysia’s Greater Klang Valley, these changes weren’t just inconvenient; they reshaped how people felt, […]
Cutting Weight, Carrying Worry: Food, Mood, and Performance in Lebanon’s Taekwondo Elite
When the Fight Extends Beyond the Mat In weight-class sports, the scoreboard isn’t the only place athletes feel pressure. The scale can become a second opponent. That tension is at the heart of the research paper Mental health, eating disorder risk, and disordered eating patterns among Lebanese National Taekwondo Players: A cross-sectional study, which takes […]
Belonging as Infrastructure: What Families Teach Us About Building Inclusive Communities
Belonging Is a Safety Net, Not a Luxury When life becomes uncertain, what keeps people steady is often not just grit, but belonging—feeling connected, respected, and able to take part in everyday life. The research paper Understanding social inclusion: A directed content analysis shows that inclusion works like community infrastructure: when it’s strong, families can […]