Seattle Times reporter Hannah Furfaro first brought this crisis to light last year. Hannah is a member of the Mental Health Project, a four-person team focused on behavioral and mental health in Washington state. The Mental Health Project has highlighted issues ranging fro...
The Washington Post reports, “In a declaration of a national state of emergency in child mental health, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the Children’s Hospital Association point to a litany of challenges faced by children in the ...
Unfortunately, the research says that only around 5% of Primary Care Clinicians and Pediatricians also examine your mental health during your yearly physical exams. Our brains are the only part of our body that cannot be replaced, so why are we NOT spending more time focusing on our mental hea...
a sudden, potentially life-threatening allergic reaction to even small amounts of the food allergen. anxiety around preventing these incidents and trauma resulting from anaphylactic episodes can harm a child's mental health. “food allergy patients, particularly children, often suffer from ...
But for the sake of our own sanity – and our kids’ mental health – we must try hard not to let it dictate every parenting decision. Because avoiding any risk often creates a risk of its own. To wit: Parents who fear kidnapping may drive their kids to school. But far more children...
HealthDay FRIDAY, Nov. 13, 2020 (HealthDay) -- Since last April, hospital emergency rooms across the United States have seen a sustained surge in visits related to the mental health of school-aged kids, a new report reveals. The findings suggest the COVID-19 pandemic is taking a toll on...
WASHINGTON WATCH Cantwell opposed a previous bid for a national privacy standard, but has joined the latest one. | Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/AP Photo The movement of data onlinecreated big gaps in existing health privacy law, and shoring up protections for Americans’ data is a bipartisan goal in...
How to talk to kids about the Connecticut school shooting Asperger's not likely to make people violent, experts emphasize Mental health care in U.S. questioned amid another tragedy Nor is it unusual for children to chase each other playing cops-and-robbers, but now parents might see some als...
"In the Washington case … my wife is asking for everything. In the Chicago case, and in the Chicago media, I don't even deserve what I got," he said. "Look at the two cases. My wife, in that case, is asking for everything. 'Jesse, give me your whole disability chec...
After her teenage daughter attempted suicide and began to cycle through emergency rooms and mental health programs during the past three years, Sarah Delarosa noticed her own health also declined.