Like adults, kids often feel overwhelmed by the many commitments, choices, and interpersonal situations they must manage each day. Research suggests that school-aged children also experience significant anxiety resulting from global crises, such as the pandemic and climate change. Unfortunately, kids have far fewer tools for dealing with chronic stress than adults. Likewise, their still-developing brains are highly susceptible to ...
If you've ever been so overwrought with worry that your patience fell short, or snapped at someone else because something unnerved you unexpectedly, you've experienced the intrinsic connection that exists between fear and anger. Just as fear can, when it is chronic, in effect bully the person experiencing it—constantly telling him what he can and cannot do—it can ...
Cognitive behavioral therapy is a goal-oriented, short-term treatment in which a therapist and client work collaboratively to solve the client’s problematic thinking and behavior in order to resolve difficulties and change the client’s negative emotions. Cognitive behavioral therapy is considered short-term because treatment occurs over eight to twelve sessions, at a frequency of about once a week in ...
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, at any one time some 40 million people will suffer with an anxiety disorder that will last at least 6 months and worsen without treatment. Unfortunately people with the most prevalent mental disorders, such as anxiety, are among the least likely to seek treatment yet anxiety is a highly treatable condition and there is ...
Politics has always been a controversial topic, but rarely has our political climate been as divisive as it is right ...
Having a sense of fairness is a great virtue and a sign that your child has a strong moral compass. ...
You may have been approached by your child’s teacher or you may have noticed yourself that your child is ...
