Some children naturally have more cognitive control than others, and in all kids this essential skill is being compromised by the usual suspects: smartphones, TV, etc. But there are many ways that adults can help kids learn better cognitive control.

Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.

The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time.

We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts, and cultivate those.

Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.

The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.

But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before.