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Taking the Shock Out of Culture Shock: Helping Students Navigate Transitions, Part Two

By Inga Ackerman — 2022

Culture shock is deeply personal; its effects on body and mind vary. Some might feel lonely and homesick, while others feel frustration over how things work in the new place.

Read on www.timeshighereducation.com

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How Parents Can Ward Against “Imposter Syndrome”

Today in my interactions with college students and young scientists in training, I’m often struck by the limits that they are placing on their own potential by comparing their achievements to those of others.

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Tricia Serio
2016
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Luke’s Best Chance: One Man’s Fight for His Autistic Son

More than a million children in America are the autism spectrum. What happens when they come of age?

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Paul Solotaroff
2016
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The Importance of Self-Discovery: Why Your Child Needs to Probe Her Neurodiversity

Give your child the self-esteem and skills to become a self-actualized adult who embraces self-discovery. That is every parent’s goal, but it is especially challenging—and important—when your child is neurodivergent. Use these four steps to help your child on that journey.

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Deborah Reber
2021
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What to Do if Your College Kid's Grades Are Slipping

The transition from high school to college is not always an easy one.

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Sherri Gordon
2021
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What Parents Need to Know about College Students and Depression

As college students returned or entered college this fall, the important issue of anxiety and depression is a discussion that parents, college students and professionals who work with students do not want to forget.

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Mayo Clinic Health System staff
2021
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How to Help a Perfectionist Student

Starting university is often a stressful time and can lead to perfectionist tendancies. If you’re a worried parent, here’s how you can help.

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Tamsin Rutter
2015
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Parenting a Third Culture Kid

Third Culture Kids (TCKs): Children who don’t identify with a single culture, but have a more complicated identity forged from their experiences as global citizens.

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Elke Robshaw
2015
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Preventing Parent Burnout

Meeting the emotional challenges of caring for children with mental health issues. Parenting is hard work, and parenting a child with mental health issues is exponentially harder.

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Julia Johnson Attaway
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A Shift in American Family Values Is Fueling Estrangement

Both parents and adult children often fail to recognize how profoundly the rules of family life have changed over the past half century.

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Joshua Coleman
2021
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The Psychological Effects of Divorce on Children

As a marriage dissolves, some parents find themselves asking questions like, “Should we stay together for the kids?” Other parents find divorce is their only option.

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Amy Morin, LCSW
2021
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