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Psychology Videos

Video: Adele Diamond - Early Childhood Support and Education

In this video, one of Canada's leading experts on Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience talks about how early childhood educational support can have a positive life-long impact.

Video: Adele Diamond: Prefrontal Cortex

In this video, one of Canada’s leading experts on Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience talks about the control centre of the brain called the prefrontal cortex.

Video: Adele Diamond: The Psychology of Effective Education

Cognitive scientist Dr. Adele Diamond of the University of British Columbia talks about what works in classroom instruction, and what does not.

Video: Adele Diamond: Babies and Abstract Reasoning

In this video, Dr. Adele Diamond talks about how tests that show infants can understand more than we realize.

Video: Parenting the defiant child

Most of what the parenting books tell you is wrong. Parenting the defiant child is really about training parents to be more effective adults, according to Yale University’s Dr. Alan Kazdin.

Video: Children's palliative care

Dr. Christine Newman, Paediatric Palliative Care Specialist, talks about the most common questions children have about their own deaths and discusses issues ranging from withdrawing life support to what to say and what not to say to grieving children.

Video: The creative mind

The Director of Neuroimaging Research at the University of Iowa, Dr. Nancy Andreasen, talks about what creativity looks like inside the brain, and how creative genius can be nurtured or destroyed.

Video: Maternal stress and preterm birth

Dr. Christine Dunkel Schetter talks about the risks associated with premature birth and how stress in pregnant mothers is one factor affecting premature birth.

Video: Executive function: The thinking brain

Dr. Stephanie Carlson talks about how children’s brains develop decision-making skills and how parents can help foster self-control in their children.

Video: Cognitive therapy: The power of realistic thinking

Dr. Judith Beck explains how the way we think affects what we do and how we feel, and how parents can help their children reframe their negative thoughts into more hopeful ones.

Video: Type T personalities: Thrill-seekers, risk-takers, and rule-breakers

Psychologist Dr. Frank Farley describes the ‘thrill-seeking’ child and how to motivate and direct their activity in positive ways.

Video: Child maltreatment

Dr. Dante Cicchetti explains how child neglect and abuse affect the physiology and the development of a child’s brain.

Video: Help Eliminate Pain in Kids: The hidden cost of immunization

Undertreating pain from childhood injections can result in needle phobia. This video looks at how parents and health care providers can help.

Video: Telepsychiatry provides long-distance mental health services

This 10-minute video describes TeleLink, a technology-driven long-distance mental health service for children living in remote areas of Canada.