A special education teacher from Fremont, California, made a“mental health checklist" for her students. Now,teachers around the world are doing the same.Erin Castillo posted a photo of her mental health poster on Instagram. The mental health checklist asks kids if they are “great" “okay" ...
Summer may nearly be over, but there’s sadly no end in sight for America’s epidemic ofadolescent anxiety and depression. That’s why I’ve compiled this list of five mental health goals to remember amid the stress of the start of another school year. These are eminently helpful goals, ...
While challenges in life are unavoidable and often beyond our control, how we respond to them is entirely up to us. For our kids, this can be more complicated. Kids have less ability to regulate their emotions. They may have a harder time recognizing why they may be feeling stressed or a...
Erin Castillo posted a photo of her mental health posteron Instagram and it went viral.She made a version of itavailable to download for free, and teachers around the world are posting photos of the chart in their classrooms. The mental heath checklist asks kids if they are "grea...
Kids who started out with significant mental problems improved The study was based on the self-reported responses of over 1,200 children ages 6 to 17 who completed a checklist, before and during the pandemic, from the National Institute of Health’s Environmental influences on Child Health Outcom...
Digital mental health interventions have the potential to overcome some of the barriers in accessing mental health support. We performed a scoping review to map existing digital mental health interventions relevant for children and adolescents affected by war, to examine the strength of the evidence ...
Children develop rapidly in the preschool period, making accurate appraisals of mental health (MH) difficult. The preschool years are a key period for earl
Psychological Distress Distress was measured with the anger or aggression, depression, anxiety, dissociation, and posttraumatic stress scales of the Trauma Symptoms Checklist for Children (TSCC) and the Trauma Symptoms Checklist for Young Children (TSCYC), thus including both internalizing and externalizin...
(70.2%) assigned female at birth. Behavioral and emotional problems were assessed with the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) and the Youth Self-Report (YSR). For autism traits, the Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS) was used. Compared to younger presenters, on both the CBCL and YSR older ...
Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Sick Kids Foundation—New Investigator Research Grant (ARM) In-kind support provided by Dilico Anishinabek Family Care Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Addictions and Mental Health (SHS) Author details {5a} ARM: Department of Psychology, Lakehead University; Dil...