Theravive Home

Therapy News And Blogging

June 24, 2025
by Patricia Tomasi

bigstock hungry children in refugee cam 22605551

New Study Finds Parental Mental Health Among Factors That Can Influence Child Food Insecurity

June 24, 2025 08:00 by Patricia Tomasi  [About the Author]

bigstock hungry children in refugee cam 22605551
A new study published in the Journal of Advances in Nutrition looked at a systemic review of social vulnerability and child food insecurity in developed countries. “Our study focuses on identifying social vulnerability factors that may be associated with childhood food insecurity,” study author Liuwork Mitiku Dana told us. “Our aim was to understand the complex drivers of food insecurity in children living in wealthy industrialized nations like Australia and the US.” [More]

June 12, 2025
by Patricia Tomasi

bigstock thoughtful pregnant woman look 102829430

New Study Looks At Brain Disruptions In Climate Stress-Exposed Children

June 12, 2025 08:00 by Patricia Tomasi  [About the Author]

bigstock thoughtful pregnant woman look 102829430
A new study explores the impact of prenatal exposure to Superstorm Sandy, a post-tropical cyclone that made landfall in New York City in 2012, and extreme ambient heat, defined as at least one day greater than 95 degrees Fahrenheit, on the brain volume of the basal ganglia in school-aged children, a critical brain region that regulates our emotions and behaviors. “We were hoping to find out whether individual and/or combined exposure to these stressors defined above would lead to discernible differences in the volume of the basal ganglia,” study author Donato DeIngeniis told us. [More]

May 27, 2025
by Patricia Tomasi

bigstock hand drawn children playing in 19106690

The Effect Of Play On Children's Health

May 27, 2025 08:00 by Patricia Tomasi  [About the Author]

bigstock hand drawn children playing in 19106690
A new review looked at play and children’s health. “This was a scoping review exploring peer reviewed literature from the past 10 years in order to examine what it can tell us about the connection between play and children’s health in healthcare settings,” review author Kelsey Grabor told us. We hoped to better understand recent and relevant evidence that might demonstrate why we should utilize and support the integration of play into a more holistic view of children’s healthcare.” [More]

April 22, 2025
by Patricia Tomasi

bigstock robot ai with hand robot on ke 475655971

Can AI Chatbots Help With Mental Health Treatment?

April 22, 2025 08:00 by Patricia Tomasi  [About the Author]

bigstock robot ai with hand robot on ke 475655971
A new study published in NEJM AI looked at a generative AI chatbot for mental health treatment. “We conducted the first randomized controlled trial to evaluate a therapy chatbot driven entirely by generative AI,” study author Nicholas Jacobson told us. Jacobson is an associate professor of biomedical data science and psychiatry at Dartmouth. “We developed the bot over 5.5 years and the goal of the work was to treat depression, anxiety, and eating disorders and all of their related comorbidities.” [More]

March 18, 2025
by Patricia Tomasi

autism adhd siblings

New Study Examines The Well-Being Of Off-Reserve First Nations Children

March 18, 2025 08:00 by Patricia Tomasi  [About the Author]

autism adhd siblings
A new study published in the Journal of Child Development looked at the determinants of socioemotional and behavioral well-being among First Nations children living off-reserve in Canada. “Our study focused on positive health outcomes among young First Nations children,” study author Sawayra Owais told us. “Specifically, we examined Indigenous and non-Indigenous-specific determinants associated with positive well-being among First Nations children living off-reserve in Canada.” [More]

March 4, 2025
by Patricia Tomasi

bigstock angry millennial couple compla 239149873

New Study Finds Significant Mental Health Disparities Between Sexual And Gender Minority Individuals And Cisgender Heterosexual Peers

March 4, 2025 08:00 by Patricia Tomasi  [About the Author]

bigstock angry millennial couple compla 239149873
A new study published in JAMA Network Open looked at mental health disparities by sexual orientation and gender identity in the All of Us Research Program. “Our study examined mental health disparities between sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals and their cisgender heterosexual peers using data from the All of Us Research Program,” study author Junjie Anderson Lu told us. [More]

February 18, 2025
by Patricia Tomasi

a bored teen

New Study Looks At Childhood Obesity And Guided Self-Help

February 18, 2025 08:00 by Patricia Tomasi  [About the Author]

a bored teen
A new study published in PubMed looked at guided self-help versus group treatment for children with obesity. “This study compares the intensive group-based treatment for children with obesity, called family-based treatment, with a guided self-help version which is delivered to the parent /child dyad,” study author Kerri Boutelle told us. “We were interested whether the guided self-help version would provide similar weight losses to the intensive family-based treatment.” [More]

December 17, 2024
by Patricia Tomasi

bigstock young girl looking at fern wit 14086427

New Study Looks At The Effect Of Nature On The Mental Health Of Children

December 17, 2024 08:00 by Patricia Tomasi  [About the Author]

bigstock young girl looking at fern wit 14086427
A new study published in JAMA Network looked at a nature-based intervention and the mental health of schoolchildren. “We found that a 12-week nature-based intervention in Grades 5 and 6 did not lead to overall reductions in mental health symptoms, according to both per-protocol and intent-to-treat analyses,” study author Marie-Claude Geoffroy told us. [More]

October 8, 2024
by Patricia Tomasi

bigstock ai smart manufacturing and hit 470991649

What's The Danger Of Humans Empathizing With AI?

October 8, 2024 08:00 by Patricia Tomasi  [About the Author]

bigstock ai smart manufacturing and hit 470991649
A new study published in Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies looked at how humans mindlessly treat AI virtual agents as social beings, but how this tendency diminishes among the young. “We were interested in understanding how people relate to AI tools, for example chatbots or smart speakers,” study author Jianan Zhou told us. “Such systems are pervasive nowadays and appear to be smart and well-informed to the typical user, which makes sense from the point of usability. The question this raises, however, is whether interaction with such systems can increase feelings of liking or sympathy towards them and lead us to behave much like we do when interacting with other humans.” [More]