I sin avhandling har Sofia Hammarström studerat hur man kan identifiera sexuellt riskutsatta unga och utvecklat en metod som hon har testat på tre ungdomsmottagningar. Metoden har redan börjat implementeras på ungdomsmottagningar i Sverige.

Ibland händer det att prestationsångest kommer i vägen för undervisningen, också för yngre elever. Hur kan man stötta på bästa sätt? Här är psykologen Martin Forster råd till lärare som möter elever med prestationsångest.

Irena Makower, docent i psykologi och psykoterapeut, har en rad konkreta tips som kan hjälpa dig att stötta dina elever på vägen från den dåliga perfektionismen mot ökad självkännedom.

Nu finns en kunskapssammanställning inom området psykisk hälsa hos barn och elever med funktionsnedsättning. Den visar att elever med funktionsnedsättning trivs i mindre utsträckning i skolan. De har även mer problematisk skolfrånvaro än elever utan funktionsnedsättning.

Parents and teachers say the coronavirus pandemic revealed changes that are needed to teaching and learning, according to a survey by the nonprofit Understood and UnidosUS. More hands-on activities are needed, according to 61% of teachers, and 55% favor more flexible learning environments.

During the pandemic, many adolescents struggled with anxiety and stress. Here’s how positive school culture, therapy services and relationships with caregivers helped one school in Oakland meet students' mental health needs.

Teachers reflect on what they learned during the ongoing pandemic and how they will apply those lessons in the new school year.

The COVID-19 pandemic closed schools and forced students into online education, causing widespread worry among parents and educators that an increase in cyberbullying would follow. But that increase never materialized, reports a new study. In fact, bullying and cyberbullying rates actually dropped during the pandemic.  

Research shows that a key indicator of students' success in a virtual learning environment is how adaptable they are, write education psychology professors Andrew Martin and Rebecca Collie, and research assistant Robin Nagy, all of the University of New South Wales.

Three new reports on student achievement during the pandemic all point to larger declines in math than in reading and widening gaps between the haves and have-nots. But describing exactly how students are doing academically is proving to be a challenge when school closures and pandemic experiences varied so wildly from state to state and…

Overall, we find that measured verbal, non-verbal, and overall cognitive scores are significantly lower since the beginning of the pandemic. Looking further, we find that children born before the pandemic and followed through the initial stages do not show a reduction in skills or performance, but rather that young infants born since the beginning of…

Children born during the coronavirus pandemic have significantly reduced verbal, motor and overall cognitive performance compared with children born before, a US study suggests.