WE'RE IN THIS TOGETHER - CONNECT & BE WELL Visit ccamh.org for youth mental health
New research is revealing how to to protect teen's mental health during a challenging part of life. (GGSC, Jill Suttie, June 14, 2016)
In a Q & A, neuroscientist Ron Dahl explains how parents can help younger teens avoid depression and anxiety as they become more independent. (GGSC, Jill Suttie, May 25, 2016)
A recent study investigates how we experience feelings across a lifespan. (GGSC, James MCConchie, July 24, 2018)
Teen depression is a serious mental health problem that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest in activities. It affects how your teenager thinks, feels and behaves, and it can cause emotional, functional and physical problems. Although depression can occur at any time in life, symptoms may be different between teens and adults. Visiting the website can offer valuable and current insight.
Start by listening without judgement, not trying to 'fix' her. (Child Mind Institute, Stephanie Dowd, PsyD)
In the past decade, the rise in clinical depression and anxiety among adolescents ages of 12-17 has gone up. As medical professionals seek to find the reasons, how can parents determine: When is it typical teen moods, and when is it something more? (John Hopkins Health Review, Fall/Winter 2017)
Knowing how anxiety works can help you to better support loved ones without inadvertently making their anxiety worse.
BY ALICE BOYES | JULY 25, 2018 Greater Good Science Center
Anxiety can be tough for anyone to deal with, but add in the whirlwind of changes that come with adolescence, and anxiety can feel like an intrusive mind hog that spends way too much time squeezing, surprising and overwhelming anyone it lands on.
Hey Sigmund, Karen Young
Where the Science of Psychology Meets the Art of Being Human
Research shows that we can tame anxiety to use it as a resource.
Anxiety has long been one of the most feared enemies in our emotional canon. We fear its arrival, feel helpless and trapped under its spell, and grant it power to overtake us in new, exciting and challenging situations. But what if we’ve been going about it all wrong?
New York Times, Alicia H. Clark,Oct. 16, 2018
When it comes to treating anxiety in children and teens, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook are the bane of therapists' work.
Washington Post By Amy Ellis Nutt
May 10, 2018
Anxiety can feel awful, but it comes from a strong, healthy brain that is doing exactly what brains are meant to do – protect us and keep us alive.
Hey Sigmund, Karen Young
Where the Science of Psychology Meets the Art of Being Human
"Childhood anxiety is one of the most important mental health challenges of our time. One in five children will experience some kind of clinical-level anxiety by the time they reach adolescence, according to Danny Pine, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at the National Institute of Mental Health and one of the world's top anxiety researchers." Learn six takeaways and valuable information on how anxiety works from this podcast.
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