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With the right type of support, a child who has attempted suicide and their family can move forward and avert future mental health crises.
Emotional self-regulation skills ensure that kids are able to adapt to stressful situations. Dr. Adel Najdowski shares a lesson on how to help children manage their emotions.
Psychology@Pepperdine, which offers two online psychology degrees from The Graduate School of Education and Psychology at Pepperdine University, is pleased to announce its third degree option, an online Master of Science in Behavioral Psychology. This program provides students with a thorough understanding of how to use techniques based on applied behavior analysis (ABA) to improve behaviors of social significance with clients diagnosed with autism and other developmental disabilities.
Last year, the California legislature passed State Assembly Bill No. 1687 barring subscriber-based “commercial online entertainment employment providers” from publishing an actor’s age. AB 1687 had one target in mind: IMDbPro. If an actor wants their age taken down, the law would require sites like IMDb to honor that request.
Women continue to make an average of 79 cents on the dollar compared to men. But the wage gap likely understates the problem since men still rise higher than women in most companies.
Ask people with business careers, “What can I do with a business degree?” and their responses often cover a broad range of possibilities. Business degree jobs are available in a variety of workplace settings and across organizations in private, nonprofit, and government sectors. Careers in business may lead to management or leadership roles in specialty areas such as finance, marketing, entrepreneurship, and business analytics. What jobs can you get with a business degree? The versatile skills that come with a business degree may open doors to myriad roles for graduates, including financial advisor, loan officer, auditor, or human resources specialist. […]
As allegations mount against a Hollywood mogul, Pepperdine psychology professor Thema Bryant-Davis discusses power dynamics and sexual harassment
Child advocates and those who work in adoption say that in order to prepare children to handle racial trauma, adoptive parents must help them develop a strong sense of racial identity. Tony Hynes shares his experience with racial profiling and how his white adoptive mother’s response to an act of discrimination can serve as a model for other parents.
The threat of deportation and family separation is a constant source of anxiety in immigrant communities, especially given the recent news that the Trump administration will begin phasing out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, leaving behind nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants.