This is a really interesting comparison: “Jennifer Alvaro has never met anyone who’s had to escape a burning school building. But as a parent, she’s grateful students are taught about fire safety and how to react in the event of a fire. She does, however, know thousands of people who have either been sexually abused…
This report seems totally out of sync with everything we know about mental health care, but maybe not so much. “It might have to do with the importance of consistent and stable therapy. While an access model gets students into care for a first appointment sooner, counselors often have too many patients and are unable…
These kinds of programs make a difference. Making sure kids understand safety issues, and how to report anything that is not safe, is an important part of fighting child abuse. If you don’t teach them, they won’t know. You’re not “ruining their innocence”, you are educating them before someone else does. You may not like…
Not only are parents missing what’s happening with their kids, this miscommunication goes both ways: “Jones and his team were surprised to find similar disagreement in the other direction, between children’s downplayed reports of their thoughts versus what their parents saw as troubling indicators. A significant number of teenagers denied they had thought about suicide…
This is the other side of that work vs. mental health equation that I’m often going on about. “Living with Depression does not mean someone can’t work. Often work can be a great help to stabilising symptoms and improving the heath of  people living with Depression.” Yes, work can be stressful. The environment and the…
We might just have it backwards about social media. It might be that teens who are already struggling with mental health issues, self-esteem issues, etc. are using it more. Not that using it more causes those things. “Childhood emotional maltreatment has important adverse psychological and emotional impacts on children, and they might try to avoid…
