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After more than a year of isolation and empty schedules, some kids might be apprehensive or anxious about interacting with the outside world. Psychology experts provide tips to ease the transition.
Whether in the form of a discreet titter or a full-on roar, laughter comes with many benefits for physical and mental health.
As well as increasing physical fitness and mental health, martial arts can boost brain cognition too.
How you use social media can provide warning signs of depression or anxiety.
If behavioural sleep problems persist beyond infancy, there could be implications for children’s emotional and attentional development longer term.
Young people whose parents have cancer report levels of psychological distress that are three to six times higher than others their age.
A more likely reason for businesses’ current interest in happiness and wellbeing has to do with cold hard economics and shifts in the labour force. Happiness, in short, is good for business.
A recent study about Facebook made headlines across the world with claims that using the social media site makes people sad. But there seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding of what the research actually…
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