"The mental health of kids in Texas would improve if we had the number of staff to support them," said Jenna Becker, a school psychologist and president of the Texas School Psychologist Association. Texas schools face a severe shortage in most mental health care professions, according to 2022-...
Out of 6.3 million Texans age 17 and younger, 1.4 million are reported to have a mental, emotional, behavioral or developmental issue, which accounts for 23% of all youths in Texas, according to a 2021-22study. According to the Census Bureau’s National Survey of Ch...
"Anybody who shoots somebody else has a mental health challenge, period. We as a government need to find a way to target that mental health challenge and do something about it," Abbott said at the news conference, doubling down concerns about an 18-year-old's ability to purchase firearms....
high school healthschool counselorsdiagnosis and treatmentBACKGROUND Mental health services in the United States public schools are an important component of the academic success of a student. Not all schools, however, have the necessary personnel and funding to offer such services. METHODS In this ...
Welcome to the Texas School Mental Health and Behavioral Health Website. TEA developed these Webpages to provide information to help schools to support student mental and behavioral health. Approximately one in six school-aged youth experiences impairments in life functioning, including impacts on acade...
There are lots of different mental health professional options are available for you to choose and start your carrier. Through choosing it you can directly enter into the field of the mental health. Before entering in to this field, you need to complete the undergraduate degree in the particular...
Nic Oke, a high schooler in Maryland, says that teachers at his school largely didn't shift expectations throughout the pandemic, but Oke saw the mental health benefits for friends at other schools with more accommodating workloads. Celine Nguyễn, a college student in Texas and student ...
Still, some parents don't believe schools should be involved in mental health at all. So-called social-emotional learning, or SEL, has become the latest political flashpoint, with conservatives saying schools use it to promote progressive ideas about race, gender and sexuality, or that a ...
Hosted by the University of Texas Southwest Department of Psychiatry, this 2 week virtual internship for rising 10th, 11th, and 12th graders aims to introduce students to the wide range of career options in the mental health field. Interactive sessions led by professionals in the field and ...
Some colleges have website pages specifically for international students about their school’s mental health support services, such asTexas Tech University's mindfulness resources page andCornell Universityin New York's health page. Many schools, like Oregon State, offer counseling services f...