When William Sparks was a 27-year-old graduate student in psychology, he wrote a paper on…
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Scapegoating — the projecting of unwarranted blame — can crop up often in everyday life. It happens in troubled homes where members shame a family scapegoat rather than look at the true nature of their frustrations.
At San Francisco City Hall, many voters took selfies as they placed ballots into the…
It happens quickly: A child on the autism spectrum bolts from supervision and disappears –…
In the western United States, where massive wildfires have fouled the air with smoke and…
At Janssen’s Market, the baked goods were fresh, the Godiva chocolate was on display, and…
The calls kept coming into the National Runaway Safeline during the pandemic: the desperate kids…
Emily Sandoz, a psychologist in Louisiana, has witnessed clients’ grueling struggles during the pandemic. Many said they felt trapped and deprived of their usual ways of coping. Others began therapy for the first time…
Heather Martin and her choir classmates were doing vocal warmups at Columbine High School on…
When police psychologists and law enforcement talk among themselves, they often conclude the same thing:…