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Thirty-five Yale Child Study Center (YCSC) faculty and staff members were recognized for long-term service at Yale as of fiscal year 2026. YCSC community members gather annually each spring to mark milestone work anniversaries at a departmental community meeting.

Yale School of Medicine (YSM) has received a $10 million gift from Bukhman Philanthropies to support YSM's Yale Child Study Center (YCSC) and YCSC's two initiatives: Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and the Anxiety and Mood Disorders Program.

Marc Bracket, PhD, shares how school leaders can counter online misogyny by building emotionally intelligent cultures, digital literacy, and helping boys find belonging without dominance or harm.

In this article, Matthew R. Rodriguez highlights how RULER skills help youth and educators support well-being, relationships, and readiness for life through building emotional intelligence.

Marc Brackett, PhD, and Robin Stern, PhD, explore how rumination affects women’s mental and physical health and share three strategies to interrupt the cycle and strengthen emotional awareness.

Creative blocks happen. Zorana Ivcevic Pringle, PhD, shares small steps like self-compassion, reframing, breaks, and mind-wandering to restart creativity.

New research from Jessica Hoffmann, PhD, assistant professor at Yale Child Study Center and director of research at Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and colleagues reveal new findings on how teens use technology and its impact on their emotional health.

Marc Brackett, founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, identifies accurate emotion labeling as the cornerstone of his RULER framework: an evidence-based approach to emotional intelligence that has been adopted by thousands of schools worldwide.

Robin Stern, PhD, and Diana Divecha, PhD, highlight five ways parents and caregivers can help kids feel secure in a world that feels increasingly unsafe.