Children Mental Health, General
Bullying and Mental Health According to the American Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP), Bullying is a common experience for many children and adolescents. Surveys indicate that as many as half of all children are bullied at some time during their school years,...
Children Mental Health, Parenting, Teen Mental Health
According to the American Psychiatric Association, more than half of people with mental illness don’t receive help for their disorders like Mental Health Stigma. Often, people avoid or delay seeking treatment due to concerns about being treated differently or...
Children Mental Health, Parenting, Teen Mental Health
Talking to Kids about Mental Health According to the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Adolescents, it can feel difficult to start a conversation with children and adolescents about mental health. This may be because you don’t feel equipped with the...
Children Mental Health, Parenting, Teen Mental Health
Cyberbullying and Children’s Mental Health Before the Internet, bullying mostly happened in person. Kids were bullied at the bus stop, at recess or in the lunch line. But once a child got home, the bullying stopped. Now with increasingly advanced technology, online...
Children Mental Health, Parenting, Teen Mental Health
Impact of School Closures on Mental Health during COVID-19 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDI) stated that Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can affect children and young people directly and indirectly. Beyond getting sick, many young people’s...
Children Mental Health, Parenting, Teen Mental Health
The Role of Sleep in Children’s Mental Health According to the Sleep Foundation, most people know firsthand that sleep affects their mental state. After all, there is a reason why it is said that someone in a bad mood “woke up on the wrong side of the bed.” As it...
Children Mental Health, Parenting
AI and Children’s Brains Experts say the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) will make most people better off over the next decade, but many have concerns about how advances in AI will affect what it means to be human, to be productive, and to exercise free will....
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...