Advising as Teaching: The Undervalued Role of Academic Mentorship
The most influential educators in a student's experience are often not their classroom instructors. Academic advisors and mentors shape trajector...
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Eating Disorders: What Research Shows About Causes, Treatment, and Recovery
Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental health condition. Understanding the evidence on causes and treatment is essential for b...
Mental Health Integration in Primary Care: Research on Collaborative Care Models
Most mental healthcare in the United States happens in primary care, not specialty settings. Research on integrated care models shows how to make this...
College-Going Culture in High Schools: How Schools Shape Student Aspirations
High school environments significantly shape whether students believe college is a realistic option for them. Creating supportive college-going cultur...
Mindfulness-Based Interventions: What Research Shows About Effectiveness and Limitations
Mindfulness programs have proliferated across healthcare, schools, and workplaces. Rigorous evaluation reveals genuine benefits for some populations a...
Elder Care Workforce Crisis: What Research Shows About a Growing Emergency
The United States faces a severe shortage of workers to care for its aging population. Research on the causes of the elder care workforce crisis and p...
Summer Learning Loss and How to Address It
Students from low-income households lose significantly more academic ground over summer than their more advantaged peers. The gap is real, cumulative,...
Trauma Informed Care: A Framework That Changes How We Work With People
Trauma informed care asks not 'what's wrong with you?' but 'what happened to you?' The shift changes the therapeutic relation...
Mental Health Parity Enforcement: Why the Law Exists and Why It Is Not Working
Mental health parity laws have been on the books for over fifteen years but are widely violated. Here is what the law requires and why enforcement has...
Criminal Justice Reform: The Evidence on Incarceration and Public Safety
The United States incarcerates more people per capita than any other country. The evidence on whether incarceration reduces crime is more complicated ...