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Adolescent Overachievers: Stress, Perfectionism, and Mental Health

There’s a lot of pressure on teenagers these days. Pressure from parents, pressure from society, and pressure from peers. Parents pressure teens to get good grades, get into college, or find a vocation suitable to their natural skills and talents. Society pressures teens to work hard, get ahead, and more and more, do something amazing like invent a crafty app and become a tech gazillionaire and retire before thirty. Peers

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October 25, 2018

Halloween Costumes: Perpetuating Negative Stigma

While researching ideas for articles to share with you for Halloween, we came across something that hadn’t occurred to us: the fact that many Halloween costumes reinforce negative stigma attached to mental illness. An article in Psychology Today points out that some of the most respected and widely-read news outlets in the nation, including the Washington Post and the New York Times, have run articles on this very topic. They’re

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October 24, 2018

Is My Kid the Bully? What Should I Do?

Every parent has a list of phone calls they don’t want to get from school. It’s a basic list. If you’re a parent, here are the top three things we know you don’t want to hear when the phone rings and your caller ID tells you it’s the school: Your child is sick or has had an accident. They’re being disruptive or having discipline problems. They’re having serious academic/learning issues.

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October 16, 2018

October 10th is World Mental Health Day

World Mental Health Day 2018: A Focus on Youth and Adolescents On October 10th, 1992, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the first annual World Mental Health Day. Their goal was twofold: to promote mental health advocacy and educate the general public on issues related to mental health. Advocacy and education remained the focus for the first three years. The event featured a global telecast from Tallahassee, Florida, and interactive

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October 9, 2018

Mental Health Support for Military Families

The Effect of War on Military Families The U.S. has been involved in two wars overseas for close to two decades. The men and women of our military have been in harm’s way in Afghanistan since 2001. They’ve been in Iraq since 2003. Despite troop drawdowns in the past few years in both countries, we still have soldiers stationed in both places. And recent events in Syria and Iraq seem

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October 8, 2018

If a Parent Thinks Their Teenager is Being Sexually Abused, How Can They Be Sure?

It’s every parent’s worst nightmare: their child being abused. Sexually, emotionally, or physically, it doesn’t matter which – they’re all virtually unbearable to conceive. And that’s for us, the adults, thinking about it from the outside. We have life experience, we have perspective, and we have a fully developed prefrontal cortex that enables us to use reason, control our emotions, and process disturbing information and the associated emotions. We’re not

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October 2, 2018

Substance Use, Mental Health, and Obesity: Changing the Paradigm

What do treatment for substance use, mental health disorders, and obesity have in common? For decades, we treated them exactly wrong: as if they were signs of personal weakness, moral failings, or a lack of willpower on the part of the person struggling with a substance use or mental health disorder or the person struggling with obesity. To put it another way, for all three conditions – substance use,  mental

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October 1, 2018

Wraparound Services in Schools

What are Wraparound Services? Wraparound services originated in the 1980s based on the work of children’s health professionals and developmental psychologists seeking effective ways to help children with significant behavioral, emotional and developmental learning challenges. Through the 1990s and 2000s, wraparound services evolved into a comprehensive system which include not only children with significant challenges, but also those with more typical emotional and/or learning issues. Initially, the wraparound approach focused

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September 28, 2018

Trends In Education: Place-Based Education

What is Place-Based Education? Parents, teachers, school leaders, and public policy makers have their hands full keeping up with the latest trends in education. It’s a complex process. First, creative thinkers propose new ideas for better serving our students. Second, teachers apply these theoretical models in the classroom. Third, school leaders learn about the success or failure of these new approaches from teachers. Next, they compare reports against class grades

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September 27, 2018

School Shooters: How Can Parents Not Know?

School shootings are a problem that horrifies everyone who hears about them. And over the past few years, everyone has heard about them. The news media makes sure of that: depending on which outlet and methodology you prefer, the number of school shootings in the United States in 2018 is between 17-23. CNN reports the high number, while the Washington Post reports the lower number. Either figure should be unacceptable

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September 25, 2018