I like to be as open about my mental health as I can with our sons, who are six and nine years old. My hope is to help break down the stigma of mental health enough that if they ever have mental health struggles of their own, they feel like they can reach out to us for help. ...
"and many kids don't have the capacity to hold on for dear life and make it to the top." other observers cite changes that may affect children's health, such as a rise in premature births and subsequent risks for neurodevelopmental disorders or exposure to new or more environmental toxins...
CHICAGO (CBS) --Former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. has not yet publicly offered an explanation for filing for divorce from his wife, former Ald. Sandi Jackson, but said Monday his main goal in court is to protect his two teenage children from tabloid headlines. Jackson filed for...
24 In the present study, we report the results for children’s and adolescents’ behavioral strengths and difficulties based on data from the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ).26,27 The SDQ has been found to be a useful measure of young people’s mental health.27 The trial ...
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Teen depression peaks around 16 years of age. One of the ways to protect your teen is to start the conversation about their mental health.
when it comes to swearing when I'm around my parents—they were very strict about it when we were kids.It's like she has some mental block about accepting adult responsibilities.You've got a mental block, that's all. Step away from the problem for a minute and come back to it later...
“The urgency of the mental health crisis is so clear,” she said. “In the partnerships that I have, the emphasis is on the kids truly struggling right now who have nothing — we need to help them — more so than a possible risk for a subset of kids who aren’t really struggling....
Dr. VanBronkhorst, who works as a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Network180, a community mental health clinic, sees many children with high ACEs. "The parents I work with see their kids struggling, they want to form thesepositive relationships, but so much gets in the way," she said...
– I want to learn about my psychological trauma. I want to learn how to regulate it. For the first time in my adult life, I feel like I could control my mental health, rather than allowing it to control me. This process hasn’t just miraculously cured me, though. My irritability rem...