If psychologists want to encourage men to seek help, they must make a better argument. In August 2018, the American Psychological...

I’m frustrated. And I’m scared. The day I started writing this, the local news announced the first adult case of measles in Suffolk...

Late last year, a study by Drs. Jean Twenge and Thomas Joiner and their colleagues took the media (and the apparently evil social media)...

News media thrive on our belief that the world is headed straight to Hell. Disasters are the news equivalent of Black Friday sales. While...

The media frenzy around the latest mass shooting at a school has now passed. We can get back to our day-to-day lives. We don’t have to...

We all have an “Uncle Frank”—annoying and ubiquitous—at family gatherings. You always seem to be seated next to him at weddings and...

As a tribute to my mother, who I tortured in this way, I chose "son" and male pronouns.

I am almost certain that you and your college kid know all about food services, residence life, and health services.

AS A PARENT, YOU’VE watched your child grow from infancy to adolescence and now your son or daughter is entering a whole new world.

MOST PARENTS KNOW SEX is complicated, and that it can be difficult to talk about the subject with their kids.

Determining whether your college kid needs help can be really, really hard. Trouble is indicated by changes and you are paying...

The newest seemingly endless news cycle, which focuses on politics and due process, is overshadowing important lessons about sex and safety.

The newest seemingly endless news cycle, which focuses on politics and due process, is overshadowing important lessons about sex and safety

Recent events may cause your kids to overestimate the probability of danger. While limiting your kids' (and your own) media exposure is...

How many times have you heard someone say, “I’m just a little OCD,” to justify her need to keep things neat and organized?

In the wake of the election, my feeds are filled with advice on how to talk to kids about it. All of it reads as though the giant meteor..

This will be a meaningful weekend for many of us. It also has the potential to be difficult. As we observe World Suicide Prevention Day...

Of the myriad difficult things, you have to discuss with your children, suicide is probably not one of them. We are fortunate that kids...

It is difficult to be specific about what to say to a child or adolescent who may be suicidal because...

Any who use social media have had difficulty turning it off. What Jesse Singal describes—that phantom tingle when we lack access...