Mad in America

DECEMBER 30, 2023

H ere we highlight the top ten of Mad in America’s most read blogs and personal stories of 2023. Universal DBT in Schools Increases Anxiety, Depression, Family Conflict In October, Peter Simons wrote about research asking if dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) can actually make kids’ mental health worse. In recent years, teaching kids “emotion regulation” has become an increasingly large part of teachers’ responsibilities.

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Work Life

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Nothing really changes on New Year’s day. Still, January always feels like the opportunity for a fresh start. In fact, humans have been making New Year’s resolutions for more than 4,000 years. While surveys suggest that around 40% of Americans make New Year’s resolutions, less than 10% of us stick with them. There are a lot of reasons for this.

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Planning Learning 111

Workplace Insight

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Each day for 25 years, between 1968 and 1993, a man called Stanley Green would rise early, enjoy a spartan breakfast of porridge and an egg, pack up a lunch of apples and vegetables, strap them along with a placard and some pamphlets to a bike and cycle the 12 miles to Oxford Street from his home in Northolt. There he would share his ideas for improving the physical and psychological wellbeing of the country, based primarily on the idea that the consumption of too much protein led to the moral t

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Computer 105

Work Life

DECEMBER 30, 2023

If you’ve made a New Year’s resolution, your plot for self-improvement probably kicks into gear sometime on January 1, when the hangover wears off and the quest for the “new you” begins in earnest. But if research on habit change is any indication, only about half of New Year’s resolutions are likely to make it out of January, much less last a lifetime.

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