Anxiety is highly prevalent in pre‐adolescent children. Distorted cognitions are characteristic for dysfunctional levels of anxiety. However, applying cognitive elements in pre‐adolescent children cannot be fully ascertained, as it is not until adolescence before children can apply logical and abstract ...
In addition to walloping the math and reading scores of middle and high schoolers, over the past three years school closures and remote learning have hurt students’ mental health and well-being, causing stress, anxiety, depression, and even suicidal thoughts and attempts.Children of color and t...
Many students in our study described how engaging in ‘mindfulness practices’ enabled them to better manage and reframe persistent negative or anxiety producing thoughts (referred to in some mindfulness traditions as suffering) and their consequent perceptions of being “calmer” and “more centered.”...
Within 4 Hours, the nausea, and the worst of the shakes had abated and Sat morning I felt Alive; I mean cognitively Alive, the anxiety, depression and all associated head fuck had stopped completely; I emotionally was as stable as I ever am. Yet physically I am still very weak and havi...
For instance, one young person said: "I feel that anxiety is a more pressing problem than hearing voices for me now, but anxiety is systematically downplayed by others as all their attention is devoted to my voices." Hearing voices and having unusual beliefs are often associated with ...
Emerging data showcases just how significant the impact of the pandemic has been on our well-being. For example, we know thatworking mothershave experienced extreme levels of hardship through COVID. They’ve experienced increased cognitive load–the number of thoughts, safety checks, and added ite...
Circle of Voices begins with a period of mandatory silence.You pose a question to the group and ask for everyone to stay quiet for two minutes as they write down some initial thoughts or responses to the question. Once the two minutes are up, you call time and ask groups of five to ...
Criticism from coaches, parents and other teammates, as well as pressure to win can create too much anxiety or stress for young athletes. Stress can be physical, emotional, or psychological and research has indicated that it can lead to burnout. Burnout has been described as dropping or ...
Worse feelings give rise to negative thoughts, which tend to dampen a person’s creativity when looking for solutions to the challenges at hand and lead to them getting you into deeper trouble. It has been found that states such as anger, sadness, fear, and happiness each have their own ...
"I lov e being out ther e with just my thoughts" W ell, my thoughts began to bor e me, and most of them wer e on how much my legs hurt.And how could I enjoy something that brought m e pain? And that wasn't just th e first week-it was practically every day for two months...