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Teenagers and Mental Health: A Q&A with Tilly’s Life Center

My Brains Not Broken

The program is available as a high school course via virtual or in-person, an after-school program, or a series of workshops. Many schools have already started to implement SEL content into their curriculum. We aim to see SEL as a required curriculum in ALL high schools across the country.

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School Safety: How Social Workers Can be Helpful and Stay Mentally Strong

Social Work Blog

Simply put, school social workers and other school administrators are constantly trying to identify aggression that may lead to violence. News and World Report, an estimated 14 mass shootings have killed a total of 169 victims since the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado. School Social Work Toolbox.

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Current Pharmacotherapy

University of Connecticut

Kristin Waters, a clinical pharmacist in psychiatry and assistant clinical professor at the UConn School of Pharmacy will join us to examine current pharmacotherapy for Depression and Anxiety Disorders and Alcohol Use Disorder and Opioid Use Disorder.

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Why the DSM Doesn’t Acknowledge Sensory Integration Symptoms

University of Connecticut

For many people with SPD, their constant need to re-regulate their senses to adapt to the stimuli around them, creates symptoms of distractibility, irritability, anxiety, and depression. So where is SPD in the DSM 5?

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Your Comprehensive Guide to Kids and Anxiety

Beautiful Voyager

Photo credit Early support and treatment really does make a difference Anxiety in children has been diagnosed an at increasingly higher rate in the past few years. Age and poverty level affected the likelihood of children receiving treatment for anxiety, depression, or behavior problems. This causes lots of anxiety.

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Children in Poverty – Poverty and its Effects on Children

All For Kids

Additionally, poverty is associated with higher rates of mental health problems, including depression and anxiety, which can impede academic success and social development. Children from low-income families often attend underfunded schools with limited resources, leading to disparities in academic achievement.

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A Lifeline for Primary Care Amid a Crisis in Youth Mental Health

Swhelper

Instead, young people with depression, anxiety and more turn to the same people they already go to for all kinds of other health issues: their pediatricians, family doctors, school-based clinics and other primary […]. View Full Article - A Lifeline for Primary Care Amid a Crisis in Youth Mental Health.