Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lesley Broff is a licensed social worker who graduated from The University of Pittsburgh with her Masters degree in Social Work.

A few years ago some friends got a new Golden Retriever puppy named Sugar. When I first met Sugar, she was a ball of fur and energy. Picture this: a golden streak dashing across the yard, eyes ...

What students repeatedly experience and observe in their environment. A Classroom Snapshot On the first day of the fall semester, Maya takes bold notes and blurts out answers before the instructor ...

Learned helplessness. I’d heard the term before, but conflated it with weaponized incompetence, a phenomenon where someone (usually the male partner in a hetero relationship) exerts little or no ...