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Your Comprehensive Guide to Kids and Anxiety

Beautiful Voyager

million) have diagnosed anxiety For children aged 3-17 years with anxiety, more than 1 in 3 also have behavior problems (37.9%) and about 1 in 3 also have depression (32.3%) Among children living below 100% of the federal poverty level, more than 1 in 5 (22%) had a mental, behavioral, or developmental disorder. This causes lots of anxiety.

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Maternal Mental Health Matters: A Neglected but Vital Issue

Relias

Maternal mental health disorders can have serious consequences, such as impaired mother-infant bonding, poor child development, and increased risk of death from suicide or other causes. If a mom isn’t doing well, her kids will fail to thrive — they may do poorly in school and in life. Where a mom goes, a family goes.

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Depression & Perfectionism

Gateway Foundation

Perfectionism personality traits aren’t considered a disorder but rather a vulnerability factor that increases a person’s chance of developing depression and other psychological problems like obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), eating disorders, and even addiction. How to Manage Depression Caused by Perfectionism.

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Celebrate Your Graduate—Save 30% Off Select Books!

Social Work Blog

Drawing on his 40+ years of meditation practice, experience as a Vietnam veteran, and decades of psychotherapy work with his clients, Ray Scurfield demonstrates how to introduce meditation into treatment for clients with posttraumatic stress disorder or everyday stress.

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How Improv theater is like therapy | NASW Member Voices

Social Work Blog

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) does not identify glossophobia as a specific phobia, but its prevalence makes finding treatment for those who suffer from it important. An overly confident high school football star might have an embarrassing stutter. A friendly server might have a crush on her patrons.

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Finding Help on Self-Injury Awareness Day in Chicago

Gateway Foundation

If you or someone you know struggles with a mental health disorder, engages in substance misuse, or uses self-harm as a coping mechanism, getting help is crucial. Some common warning signs and symptoms of substance use disorder include: Bloodshot eyes. That’s the idea behind Self-Injury Awareness Day. Poor personal hygiene.

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Crisis Prevention and Intervention in the Age of COVID-19

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To better understand the effects of the pandemic on crisis situations and the associated methods of prevention and intervention, we will discuss the following crisis situations: Substance use disorder. Substance Use Disorders and COVID-19. Substance use disorders (SUDs) have been a growing issue in the United States for some time.