Anxiety, Children Mental Health, Parenting
Animal-Assisted Therapy and Children While most of us are familiar with service dogs and the role they play in their owners’ lives, many people don’t know much about therapy animals. Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT) harnesses the positive traits of animals and uses them...
Children Mental Health, Parenting
What are Nightmares in Children, Frequencies, and effects? According to the Sleep Foundation, nightmares can occur at any age, but studies suggest they are exceptionally common for young children. Roughly half of the children between the ages of 3 and 6 report...
Children Mental Health, Parenting, Teen Mental Health
What are Gifted Children Mental Health Problems? Gifted kids sometimes have problems that require the help of a therapist. Such children can be a mystery to parents and consult parenting handbooks isn’t always productive. For one thing, unless a parenting...
Children Mental Health, Parenting, Teen Mental Health
Teen Reactive Attachment Disorder According to J. Bowlby (1982), Attachment may be defined as a composite of behaviors in an infant, toddler, or young child that is designed to achieve physical and emotional closeness to a mother or preferred caregiver when the child...
Children Mental Health, Parenting, Teen Mental Health
Understanding Adolescent Risk Taking, Impulsivity, and Brain Development We’ve all done impulsive things in our lives and are familiar with adolescent risk taking. For some, it’s adding a dozen extra items in the check-out line at the grocery store. For others, it’s...
Children Mental Health, Parenting, Teen Mental Health
Understanding Oppositional Defiance in Children and Adolescents Parenting is challenging—more so if you are raising a child who is often angry, argumentative, and stubborn. In this case, you may need to know more about Oppositional Defiance in Children and...
Children Mental Health, Teen Mental Health
Understanding Phobias in Children According to Johns Hopkins University, everyone, from the youngest child to the oldest adult, experiences anxieties and fears at one time or another. Feeling anxious in a particularly uncomfortable situation never feels good. However,...
Children Mental Health, Parenting, Teen Mental Health
Children and Sports – Physical and Mental Health Benefits Why should children join sporting clubs and what are the physical and mental health benefits? A child’s physical and mental health benefits significantly from participation in sports, sports can be more than...
