Clinical Psychology & Mental Health

Teenagers Who Self-Harm, 20 Years Later

Teenagers Who Self-Harm, 20 Years Later

When mental health conditions appear during the teenage years, one of the most complex questions is what the long-term implications are. Some conditions tend to be life-long, but for behaviors like self-harm, ...
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/ / Behavioral Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Self-Harm, Teens
Self-Compassion Consistently Linked With Mental Health in Teenagers

Self-Compassion Consistently Linked With Mental Health in Teenagers

Being able to treat themselves with kindness might make a real difference for teens when it comes to mental health. That idea makes intuitive sense, and now a meta-analysis by researchers at ...
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/ / Clinical Psychology, Compassion, Depression, Teens
Stigma Toward Borderline Personality Disorder Is Improving

Stigma Toward Borderline Personality Disorder Is Improving

People with borderline personality disorder struggle with symptoms that range from fear of abandonment to difficulties with emotion regulation to self-harm. Unfortunately, they’ve also traditionally struggled with another problem: stigma from mental ...
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/ / Borderline, Clinical Psychology, Personality, Stigma
Emotional Skills Can Undo the Link Between Stress and Cardiovascular Health

Emotional Skills Can Undo the Link Between Stress and Cardiovascular Health

Ongoing stress is looking like an increasingly guilty suspect in sabotaging people’s health. The American Psychological Association now cites chronic stress as a risk factor for heath disease, high blood pressure and ...
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/ / Anxiety, Cardiovascular, Clinical Psychology, Health Psychology, Stress & Trauma
The Roles of Shame and Guilt in Anxiety

The Roles of Shame and Guilt in Anxiety

Psychology researchers have become increasingly interested in the idea that people who are more prone to feelings of shame and guilt are at higher risk for mental health conditions like anxiety disorders ...
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/ / Anxiety, Clinical Psychology, Guilt, Shame
Being Especially Scrupulous Could Raise Risk for Hoarding

Being Especially Scrupulous Could Raise Risk for Hoarding

Ever bought something and then never gotten around to using it? Most of us don’t like that feeling. We naturally don’t want to see things go to waste. For some of us, ...
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/ / Anxiety, Clinical Psychology, Hoarding
The Personality of a Team Player

The Personality of a Team Player

If you’re looking for someone who is good at teamwork, your ideal candidate is probably extraverted, agreeable and conscientious – but not too extraverted, agreeable or conscientious, according to a new study ...
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/ / Clinical Psychology, Performance Psychology, Personality, Relationships, Social Psychology
Why Caring Too Much About Power Leads to Unhappiness

Why Caring Too Much About Power Leads to Unhappiness

Some things in life, like building genuine connections with other people or having a job you love, can lead to an ongoing sense of happiness. Other things, like chasing power and money, ...
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/ / Clinical Psychology, Depression, Happiness, Positive Psychology
How Personality Relates to Sexuality

How Personality Relates to Sexuality

Someone's personality can tell you how they approach all sorts of different things in life, including sex. But how exactly do personality and sexuality relate to each other? That's the question psychologists ...
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/ / Clinical Psychology, Personality, Sex
What Do Your Media Habits Say About Your Personality and Mental Health?

What Do Your Media Habits Say About Your Personality and Mental Health?

Here’s a shocking finding: going on the Internet might correlate with good mental health. And if you don’t find that shocking, you probably don’t spend enough time on the Internet. That finding ...
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/ / Clinical Psychology, Extroversion, Mental Health, Social Media, Social Psychology