Children Mental Health, General, Relationships
According to the World Psychiatry, the official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), an increasing number of children across the world experience family instability due to divorce/separation and the effects of divorce on children’s mental healthof...
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...