More than one in five adults in the U.S. experience mental illness each year, according to data from the National Alliance on ...

New research highlights how consistent discipline and positive parenting may support children's emotional and behavioral well-being.

A recent study highlights that positive parenting during early childhood can result in improved reward responses in later ...

Warm and supportive parenting may buffer against the effects of stress during childhood and adolescence. That is the key takeaway of our recent study, published in the journal PNAS Nexus. However, in ...

The term positive parenting may sound like a 'new-age hippy' way to parent your children, or even a term made up by celebrities such as Goop founder Gwyneth Paltrow, but it's actually a parenting ...

There's no one right way to raise a child, but different patterns of parenting are associated with how kids behave. A new study, published on September 30, 2026 in the open access journal PLOS One, ...

Positive parenting — many parents strive for it, but it doesn’t just happen. Positive parenting is an intentional act that takes training and practice. While in a perfect world, parents would start ...

For much of its history, psychology has primarily focused on studying and treating psychological disorders. However, there has been a shift towards positive psychology in recent years, emphasizing the ...

Self-harm refers to intentionally injuring one's own body as a coping mechanism to emotional distress. It manifests in many forms and has serious consequences, not only on physical health but also on ...

Broadly speaking, being a sex positive parent means engaging in healthy, open, and informed conversations about sex and sexuality with your child(ren). Doing this can enpower them to grow into ...

“Positive parenting” is currently a buzzword that is commonly used to describe parenting practices. Yet, what exactly does this term mean? Does research find positive parenting to be effective? And ...