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Learn More ×Kids love going over to their grandparent’s house, and grandparents adore visits from their grandchildren. We’re sure there are exceptions to this, but for the most part we’re confident of the accuracy of that statement. After all, what’s not to love? From the grandparents’ perspective, they get all the love and adoration of the kids – but get to send them home for the meal times and bedtime. And from
Last year, we published an article for Childhood Obesity Awareness Month that answered this question: What do treatment for substance use, mental health disorders, and obesity have in common? You can read that article in full – Substance Use, Obesity, and Mental Health Treatment: Changing the Paradigm – or read the quick summary that follows. In short, the article points out the fact is that for decades, what treatment for
Pain Awareness Month: The History Pain Awareness Month began in 2001, when a group of organizations and concerned parties united with a common goal: “To bring awareness to chronic pain and highlight of pain affects individuals, families, communities, and the nation.” This year’s theme for Pain Awareness Month – #LetsTalkAboutPain – is designed to reduce stigma around chronic pain and encourage those who suffer from chronic pain to open up
What does painting have to do with mental health? Lots, actually. Art therapy is a popular intervention for those with depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, low self-esteem, trauma, and more. PTSD and other childhood attachment issues like neglect are particularly amenable to art therapy. Many studies analyzing children with PTSD find that the participants in the treatment group often see a reduction in their acute symptoms (Chapman 2011). Why Art Helps With
Some call the app “digital karaoke.” On it, teens can create 3-15-second videos of themselves singing, lip-syncing, dancing, or doing anything at all – antics and silly pranks included — to background music. The videos, by default, loop on repeat, making it often addictive to keep watching. Popular TikTok videos mostly show young adolescents, often provocatively dressed, dancing or singing to popular songs or lyrics from movies. Songs are often
In a recent article in Time Magazine, Ziauddin Yousafazi, father of Malala Yousafazi, the youngest-ever recipient of the Noble Peace Prize, made the following statement: “Good parents should want their children to be independent as early as possible.” Most parents would agree with that sentiment. However, there are ideas embedded in that statement that mean different things to different parents and families. Let’s look at the two most obvious: What
Parents of teens diagnosed with ADHD know their children need strategies to help keep them focused and complete classwork and homework on time. They also know this: it takes more than a day planner and daily verbal reminders to make that happen. It takes planning, creativity, patience, and cooperation. It takes time and energy – but it’s one hundred percent worth it. We have a simple list of things you
We’ve come a long way since the first National Recovery Month in 1989. A lot has changed. The way we view and treat addiction, the way we view and treat mental and behavioral health disorders, and the way we, as a society talk about both addiction and mental health disorders. If we go back thirty years and take a peek at 1989, when National Recovery Month first started as Treatment
Since California legalized the use of marijuana for adults, the substance has also become more readily accessible to underage minors, who use it recreationally – which is illegal. Marijuana use has become so rampant and pervasive that teens are now smoking everywhere they can—including school. Whereas it’s relatively common knowledge that many high school adolescents smoke on campus grounds before the bell, during lunch, or after school, did you know
The electronic age is here. Almost everyone has a cellphone with them 24/7, and computers are everywhere. You’re most likely reading this article on a computer or smart phone right now. Screen time is a reality for almost all of us: many adults sit in front of a computer screen for a majority of their working hours, then come home and relax in front of a television screen during their
