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Research

Mental Illness and Hidden Strengths: Turning Struggles into Life Skills

When we hear the words “mental illness,” people usually think only about the struggles of anxiety, depression, or bipolar disorder. But new research shows that mental health challenges can also build positive skills in a person’s life. Many individuals with

Self Help Social

The Hidden Impact of Beauty Filters on Self-Esteem and Body Image

Digital beauty filters, digital distortions of one’s image that adhere to idealised standards of beauty, are pretty commonplace in the technological age of social media. Millions globally filter their selfies and videos every day, smoothing skin, enlarging eyes, slanting cheekbones, and

Relationship Social

How Socioeconomic Status Shapes Emotional Intimacy and Relationship Quality

For people who share relational situations with romantic partners to families, to close friends, emotional intimacy is a crucial element of wellbeing, satisfaction, and support. But access to social and psychological resources that promote and support ideal relationships is unequal. Socioeconomic

Parenting

The Silence Between Parents and Teens: Why Communication Breaks Down

Most parents remember a time in their children’s lives when everything was shared with them: what happened at school, their friendships, their worries and all the happy events. But as children transition from childhood to adolescence, many times, their conversations decrease

Relationship Social

What Generational Differences Tell Us About Human Behaviour

Have you ever imagined owning a Time Machine that you could use to go back in time and witness the lives of your parents? How did they live? What did they do in School? How did they enjoy? Basically, witnessing

Industrial

Beyond Advice: Why Validation Often Matters More Than  Solutions

We live in a solution-oriented world. When someone shares a problem, the instinctive  response is often, “Have you tried this?” or “You should do that.” Advice feels helpful, active and efficient. However, in many instances, after the conversation, it can

Positive

Barriers to Play: How Playgrounds Exclude Neurodivergent Children

The playgrounds are often pictured as public areas that are open to all children to play, explore and socialise without any restrictions. Play facilitates physical growth, emotional, creativity, and social skills, which is why it is a very essential aspect

Parenting Relationship Social

How Adolescents Rebuild Emotional Intimacy with Parents

Adolescence is, famously, a season of separation: closed bedroom doors, texts with “k”s, and a world of emotions that is radically out of bounds to the grown-ups who once helped raise them. But beneath that popularised picture of disconnection, another,

Education Health

Why Life Skills Matter in Education?

Have you ever been in a situation where you wanted to say no but somehow couldn’t and ended up being in an uncomfortable situation? Or has there been a situation where you felt anxious the whole day but couldn’t understand

Health Motivation

The Psychology of Goal Adjustment: Life Satisfaction After Injury or Diagnosis

A serious accident or being diagnosed with a life-changing disorder can dramatically impact an individual’s future overnight. Career plans, physical abilities, relationships, and ambitions, all of these factors that once appeared to be relatively stable, suddenly become recipients of complicated levels