I worry about the trend towards therapeutically treating children for everything from a lisp to a bit of rebelliousness. For example, shyness isn’t pleasant, but many children really do grow out of it (I did).

realized that like alcohol and other drugs, cigarettes were part of the cover-up for my inherent state of spiritual search and belief.

Faith-based therapy, nutrition and mental health, children’s therapy, therapist best-practices, and more mental health trends we hope to see in 2012.

Do certain character traits lead to longevity? Dr. Howard Friedman’s The Longevity Project offers surprising findings.

“People with life threatening mental illnesses are being abandoned,” said NAMI’s Mike Fitzpatrick. “The more that mental health care is provided by Medicaid, the greater the risk exists that uninsured or under-insured individuals won’t receive the help they need.”

Diederik Stapel, a leading social psychologist at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, has apparently spent years falsifying research data.

Devra Davis, PhD, MPH, cancer epidemiologist says, “From the way it was set up originally, this deeply flawed study was designed to fail to find an increased risk of brain tumors tied with cellphone use.”

Coffee consumption is linked to a lower rate of depression in women. I think many of us intuitively knew that.

According to a new study, over 70 percent of Americans agree with this statement: God has a plan for me.

The experts tell us that what children watch and how much they watch is important. What do you think?