An obsession with children’s self esteem is breeding narcissism, says Dr Carol Craig, chief executive of The Centre for Confidence and Wellbeing in Glasgow. Dr Craig called the self-esteem agenda, which has been imported from the United States, a “fashionable idea” that has gone too far and urged schools to reclaim their role as educators, not psychologists. In today’s Telegraph Urmee Khan reviewws Dr. Craigs speech at the Association of School and College Leaders conference in Birmingham. Link to continue reading
Source: The Telegraph
Childrens Health
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Like adults, kids who are more spiritual or religious tend to be healthier.
That’s the conclusion of Dr. Barry Nierenberg, Ph.D., ABPP, associate professor of psychology at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, who has been studying the relationship between faith and health. He presented on the topic at the American Psychological Association’s Division of Rehabilitation Psychology national conference on February 27, in Jackson, Fla.
Children who repeatedly manifest having obsessions and compulsions notably increase their risk of suffering from a disorder later in life. These are the findings of a research group led Miguel Ãngel Fullana, researcher at the UAB Department of Psychiatry and Legal Medicine, psychologist the Institute of Psychiatric Treatment (IMAS-IMIM) of Hospital de Mar in Barcelona and researcher at King’s College Institute of Psychiatry, London, who has carried out a first study which connects the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive rituals in childhood with the risk of developing an obsessive-compulsive disorder as adults. [continue reading…]
Children’s moral behavior and attitudes in the real world largely carry over to the virtual world of computers, the Internet, video games and cell phones. Interestingly, there are marked gender and race differences in the way children rate morally questionable virtual behaviors, according to Professor Linda Jackson and her team from Michigan State University in the US. Their research is the first systematic investigation of the effects of gender and race on children’s beliefs about moral behavior, both in the virtual world and the real world, and the relationship between the two. The study was published online in Springer’s journal, Sex Roles. [continue reading…]
