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Over two-thirds of the 11-17 year olds surveyed by Mental Health America felt stressed out about loneliness. Read more >>
Supporting the Emotional Needs of Kids With Learning Disabilities
When kids are diagnosed with a learning disability we naturally worry about how it will affect their school performance. What we often don’t think about, but should, is how having a learning disability may affect children emotionally. Read more >>
Five Skills Parents Can Learn So They Can Help Their Children Cope
Caregivers can learn therapeutic strategies to support, reinforce and teach our children healthy coping skills. Experts point to five key skills you can develop that will support your child during a crisis, supplement therapy once it’s underway and continue to Read more >>
Helping Youth Cope After a School Shooting [downloadable]
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network has developed a collection of resources to help youth heal after a school shooting. Downloadable resources include fact sheets, tip sheets, tool kits and more. Read more >>
When the World Feels Like a Scary Place
It’s an understatement to say we live in an age of anxiety. Political polarization, school shootings, income inequality, climate issues, sexual harassment, and more—whether it’s on the news or hitting closer to home, it’s impossible to tune out. The problem Read more >>
The Cost of Caring: 10 Ways to Prevent Compassion Fatigue
Compassion fatigue is characterized by physical and emotional exhaustion and a profound decrease in the ability to empathize. It is a form of secondary traumatic stress, as the stress occurs as a result of helping or wanting to help those Read more >>
Self-Care for Mental Health Professionals
It’s well known that mental health professions are associated with burnout. That risk increases when the general population faces prolonged stress, psychotherapy is in higher demand, and students’ needs—both remote and in-person—are more taxing. Read more >>
Here’s Why Pandemic Fatigue Is (Still) So Draining
Many of my patients are stressing over—and feeling exhausted by—the same things: uncertainty about travel and social gatherings, trouble focusing and completing tasks, and general burnout, to name a few. We’re all tired, and talking about exhaustion over and over Read more >>
The Impact of Parental Burnout
In 2018, Isabelle Roskam, PhD, and her colleagues developed a measurement called the Parental Burnout Assessment after surveying more than 900 parents they had determined to be experiencing burnout. From these subjects’ testimonies, the researchers extracted four dimensions of parental Read more >>
Americans are emerging from the pandemic more stressed out and reactive than ever. For example, in a typical year, the United States sees about 100 to 150 cases of “air rage”—passengers becoming violent or unruly on airplanes. In 2021, there Read more >>
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