Quality of continuing education for psychotherapists questioned, unsupported by research

Published: 27 May 2020

New research from McGill University has found that nearly half of psychotherapies promoted in workshops approved by l’Ordre des Psychologues du Québec are not supported by scientific research,...

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Published: 18 August 2017

Minorities and bullying...

Punishing kids for lying just doesn’t work

Published: 8 December 2014

If you want your child to tell the truth, it’s best not to threaten to punish them if they lie. That’s what researchers discovered through a simple experiment involving 372 children between the...

The truth about lying? Children’s perceptions get more nuanced with age

Published: 5 October 2016

Parents don’t like it when children lie. But what do the kids themselves think about it? New research suggests truth telling isn’t black and white....

Homework without tears (Nov. 21)

Published: 21 November 2016

For the last lecture of the five-week Effective parenting series featuring McGill University Educational Psychology professors, Professor Steven Shaw will focus on homework.

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