Mental health experts say one thing is critical to understand: self-injury is often a signal of emotional pain — not a desire to die.

Autistic young people are at increased risk of mental health difficulties than their non-autistic peers.1,2 Beyond innate neurodevelopmental differences, environmental factors, especially the school ...

In teenagehood, some degree of irritability comes with the territory. But severe emotional disorders in teens could be ...

Professor Sonia Kong's pet chicken is named Saturday. It flew the coop to help her cope. A Canadian psychology professor who studies how relationships with pets support healthy development has her own ...

Emotional wellness helps you handle difficulties and make thoughtful decisions. Maintaining emotional wellness can improve your sleep quality and strengthen your immune system. Having poor emotional ...

Anne Paonessa is the author of Essential Connection Skills (Corwin, 2025) and founder of ConnectED Classrooms: Picture this: A student sits at their desk, staring at a math problem that seems ...

Self-conscious emotions play a crucial role in social functioning, moral behavior, and identity formation. Their inherent complexity, necessitating self-awareness and social evaluation, presents ...

Although artificial intelligence is frequently lauded for its coding ability or its math skills, how does it perform when it is examined on something inherently human, such as emotions? A recent study ...

Most of us approach money as a numbers game: earn, save, invest, repeat. But, as Housel points out, money is so much more than a spreadsheet. Most of us approach money as a numbers game: earn, save, ...

If you’re a parent or guardian, you’ve heard about the importance of respecting your child’s feelings. Teaching our kids can help them work through the negative emotions they experience as they grow ...

Whether your child is tantruming, pushing for independence, or heading to college, each new phase sparks emotions: your emotions. Sadness. Anger. Guilt. Anxiety. Learning how to understand our ...