By Lenore Skenazy, Jonathan Haidt — 2017
Bad policy and paranoid parenting are making kids too safe to succeed.
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The Behavior Code unlocks a wealth of proven practices to help teachers, counselors, and parents identify the messages underlying challenging student behaviors and respond in supportive ways.
Is your child extremely irritable most of the time? Do they have difficulty interpreting social cues? Are they impulsive and prone to outbursts or explosive rages? Parenting a child who has emotional dysregulation can be a bumpy ride.
Around 15 percent of children are thought to suffer from anxiety disorders, the most commonly identified emotional or behavioural problems among children.
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In this latest episode I sat down with Nedra Tawwab, a licensed clinical social worker and owner of Kaleidoscope Counseling in Charlotte, NC. We talk through several aspect of mental health and how important it is in our every day lives.
Repetitive trauma during childhood can impact your emotional development, creating a ripple effect that carries into adulthood. Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) is a physical and psychological response to these repeated traumatic events.
TF-CBT is a structured, short-term, effective treatment for children and adolescents (ages 3-18) who have experienced trauma. As the gold-standard of child trauma treatments, it has been repeatedly shown to successfully resolve emotional and behaviorally difficulties associated with trauma.
Getting good grades, making and breaking up with friends, and figuring out what being an adult looks like―these are just some of the challenges that can weigh down on teens.