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The Daily Podcast Takes on Adolescent Mental Health
I found it interesting because I think the show does a good job of talking to people involved with treating kids and showing what the problem is. Starting with the conversation with a pediatrician, we learn that medical schools don’t effectively train doctors to deal with mental health issues. The risks to children they’ve been taught to deal with are external. These include viruses, broken bones from accidents, stitching cuts, etc. Today, however, the risks to kids have become much more internal. They are harming themselves due to mental health issues at rates we’ve never seen before. Doctors have not been trained to deal with those kinds of risks, and it is made clear that if you’re studying to be a pediatrician, you focus on the external risks because if a kid comes in with an internal risk, you’ll refer them to someone who specializes in mental health.
Of course, there’s a problem with that.
Links I’m Sharing (weekly)
Hope Contagion: 13 Reasons Why It’s Time to Change Direction Mental health myth busting My Take on Why Mental Health Awareness Month is Important The Many Faces of Anxiety How to start a mental-health conversation with a colleague Why Rock Bottom in Serious Mental Illness Is Death Why staff wellbeing is mission critical for the…
Sharing – Understanding The Rise In Suicide Rates Since The Nineties: Factors And Prevention
Unspoken in her article but implied by the risk associated with loneliness, we’d also do well to create more community. What I think takes many of these risk factors from challenging to overwhelming is when we are left to deal with them alone. We might see these trends reverse when we have the proper support and mental health resources, but we’re not there yet. Too many people are alone.
Shared Links (weekly) Jan. 10, 2021
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How I Used Reading to Cope with Trauma
Psych News Alert: Study Confirms Well-Known Suicide Risk Factors, Identifies New Risks
The mental toll of the Capitol siege on the American psyche
Black communities have long faced barriers to mental-health care. These organizations are working to change that
How to Protect and Empower Kids Online: An Interview with Wired Human
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Sharing – Red Flags of child sex abusers from an ex-child abuse detective
We’ve spent so much time looking at lists like this one, looking for the bad people, and that is absolutely part of abuse prevention. Still, we’ve missed the boat on what might be the most significant tool in our prevention toolkit, taking the target off kids by connecting with them as parents and with other trusted adults—helping them be less vulnerable.
Kids who don’t have secrets make terrible targets for abusers. Kids with support and secure relationships aren’t easily manipulated and aren’t too eager to please adults.
We need our kids to be more of that, starting with having close relationships with the safe adults in their lives.
