By Rachel Williams — 2016
Emotionally responsive games where the calmest contestant wins are being developed for young people with their mental health in mind.
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Too many kids show worrying signs of fragility from a very young age. Here’s what we can do about it.
All kids feel anxious or stressed sometimes, like when they’re getting ready for a big test. But kids who learn and think differently may feel stress more often or more intensely. Self-soothing techniques can help them relax and regain their sense of control.
Maintaining your authority is important to your child’s well-being—and it’s important for your own emotional health too.
Brain differences such as autism, ADHD, and dyslexia are not something to be cured, but something to be embraced as part of human diversity.
Every generation, sometimes building on and sometimes rejecting what came before, develops its own ideas about parenting. For many millennials, the clinical psychologist Becky Kennedy, a.k.a. Dr. Becky, is the person whom they trust to deliver those ideas.
When anxiety strikes, it prevents me from being the mother I want to be. I am not able to be present with my children. I am somewhere else, a captive to my thoughts. I’m supposed to be the grown-up, but I morph into a child—totally powerless and vulnerable.
When a medication is being evaluated to modify the behavior of a person with autism, one must assess the risks versus the benefits.
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Because developing brains are prone to erratic, even dramatic behavior, parents can struggle to find the line between "normal" and "concerning."
In my more than two decades of treating children with mental health problems like ADHD, anxiety, childhood depression, oppositional defiant disorder, ASD, and many other conditions, I have found that making changes in the parenting environment can usually resolve the child’s problem.
How do you know when it’s time to take your autistic, bipolar twelve-year-old daughter to the psych ward?