‘News and Research’ at Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life, Page 35

How adolescents perceive their body weight turns out to be a more important risk factor for suicide than actual body weight.

Trust between client and therapist is central to the success of the therapeutic process, but how can people working online foster the same kind of trust that builds between people working face to face? Online therapists and clients alike may be able to learn from new research on fostering trust in online communications.

New research on the emotional effects of being aware of the passage of time — and, in particular, of an approaching ending — sheds some light on age-related differences in emotional experiences and may also be of interest to mental health practitioners in the context of ending therapeutic relationships.

The latest findings from a 24-year ongoing study in Australia suggest a startling conclusion about depression in childhood: whether or not a young child becomes depressed may have very little to do with his or her social environment.

New research has apparently disproved the popular theory that deficits in certain visual processes cause the spelling and reading woes commonly suffered by dyslexics; dyslexia affects between 5 and 10 percent of children in the U.S.