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.

In the modern world, we can become overwhelmed with news of the collapse of our ecosystem, the chances of another pandemic, and global warfare, plus the latest political crisis — all within 15 minutes ...

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 ...

This week, we conclude our series on the causes of American students’ reading decline by discussing the impacts of low expectations, weak accountability and learned helplessness. The problems begin ...

Somewhere along the way, working hard became a thing of the past for some. Effort? Cringe. Optimism? Please. In some workplaces, skepticism trumps enthusiasm, sarcasm wins more respect than passion, ...

Instead of learning how to complete tasks on their own, many children in school today are honing their learned helplessness. Helicopter parenting is often to blame. As Verywellmind noted, "When ...

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 ...

The state is voting whether to eliminate minimum grades (where schools mandate quarterly grades no lower than 50 or 55, even if a student has earned all zeroes, so students always have a mathematical ...

In the modern world, we can become overwhelmed with news of the collapse of our ecosystem, the chances of another pandemic, and global warfare, plus the latest political crisis — all within 15 minutes ...