News tagged with coping skills

New educational program helps the siblings of children with cancer

Having a brother or sister with newly diagnosed cancer can be a distressing and difficult time for a child. While most children eventually cope, there can be a period of adjustment when their school work and social functioning ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New approach to management of overeating in children

Overeating, whether in children or adults, often takes place even in the absence of hunger, resulting in weight gain and obesity. Current methods to treat such overeating in youth focus on therapies that restrict what kids ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Putting your foot in it: but shoes can make a difference

Researchers at the University of Melbourne have proven that a modified shoe can reduce knee load in people with knee osteoarthritis.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Study shows young adults want to recover from addiction but need help to make it happen

Young adults undergoing addiction treatment arrive ready and willing to make the personal changes that bring about recovery, but it's the help and guidance received during treatment that build and sustain those changes, according ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Stressful pregnancies can lead to stressful children

(Medical Xpress) -- A new study published in Translational Psychiatry suggests that children whose mothers are highly stressed during pregnancy are more likely to be vulnerable to stress as they grow older. ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 22, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Parental mental illness: How are children and adults affected?

A University of Western Sydney study will investigate the experiences of adults whose parents suffered mental illness during their childhood.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Yoga alleviates pain and improves function in fibromyalgia patients

Fibromyalgia (FM) is a debilitating condition affecting 11 million individuals in the US alone. FM carries an annual direct cost for care of more than $20 billion and drug therapies are generally only 30% effective in relieving ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

New psychological intervention program shows promise in helping those with bowel diseases

Disease is a private matter to many of us. For many reasons, we want to keep it to ourselves, and no cluster of disorders challenges patients' need for privacy more than inflammatory bowel disease.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 09, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Family child care providers' behavior found to affect children's stress

A new study on preschoolers attending full-day child care in licensed day care homes has found increases in cortisol, a stress hormone, when the children are in child care that exceeds their levels at home. The increases ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 14, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Family intervention may reduce risk for depression in parents and children

Cognitive behavioral intervention for families may help prevent depression in parents with a history of depression and in their 9- to 15-year-old children, new research has found. The study is the first to test this kind ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 11, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

It really may be the best medicine

Talk turned serious -- painfully so, at times -- during the two hours of group discussion.

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Program focused on body, mind and spirit helps women with breast cancer cope

Pathfinders, a program designed to care for the whole person -- body, mind and spirit -- has been found to help women with terminal cancer cope and improved their quality of life, according to a study led by researchers in ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 15, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 2