Childrens Mental Health

QUIZ: Facts And Myths About Children's Mental Health

Posted 05.10.2012

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Your child is acting out. Does that mean he has ADHD? Do your daughter's mood swings mean she's plagued by full-blown depression? In honor of National...

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Disorder Many Parents Don't Know To Look Out For

| Posted 05.10.2012

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Written by Beth Arky. This story is part of Speak Up for Kids, an annual public education program held during National Children's Mental Health Awa...

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It's National Children's Mental Health Awareness Week: Know the Signs, Make a Difference

Tamar Chansky | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Anxiety, Mental Health, Parenting, Prevention, Children's Mental Health, Depression, National Children's Mental Health Awareness Week, Mental Health Issues, Eating Disorders, Mental Health Services, Child Mental Health, Children Mental Health, Healthy Living News

It's National Children's Mental Health Awareness Week -- and with it, the opportunity for parents, teachers, coaches and troop leaders to make a difference in a child's life by keeping on the look out for signs that a child is struggling with a mental health issue.

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What Is ADHD, and Why Do People Say It Doesn't Exist?

| Posted 05.09.2012

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Written by Dr. Steven Kurtz This story is part of Speak Up for Kids, an annual public education program held during National Children's Mental Heal...

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Speak Up for Kids Mental Health This Week

Dr. Harold Koplewicz | Posted 05.08.2012

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The public perception of child and adolescent mental illness hasn't changed along with the possibilities that have opened up to treat or even prevent it.

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The Global Search for Education: On Success

C. M. Rubin | Posted 01.15.2012

Read More: High Achievers, Challenge Success, The Global Search for Education, Student Suicide, Student Stress, Race to Nowhere, College Admissions, Stanford University School of Education, C. M. Rubin, Dr. Denise Pope, Children's Mental Health, Childhood Depression, Emotional Health, Academic Pressure, Parental Pressure, Education Reform, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Education News

The desire for successful children in a performance-based culture often consumes us before we realize it.

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A Prescription For America's ADHD Epidemic

Lawrence Diller, M.D. | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: ADHD Medication, Children's Mental Health, Adhd, Add, Adderall, Healthy Living Health News, Children and Add/Adhd, Mental Health, Children and Adderall, Healthy Living Mind, ADD Medication, Healthy Living News

The United States of Adderall will continue at least into the near future until our values change substantially or, more ominously, we experience some social catastrophe from the adult use of these drugs.

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She's Not a Time-Bomb: Are Men Teaching Kids to Respect Women?

Yashar Ali | Posted 08.29.2011

Read More: Motherhood, Respect, Placate, Children's Mental Health, Love, Children, Daughters, Women News

This past weekend, I overheard a man tell his kids they needed to rush home for dinner because, "We don't want mommy to get really upset." It occurred to me that a seemingly innocuous sentence could place an incredible amount of weight on kids.

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Why Are People So Divided When It Comes To Children's Mental Health?

Dr. Harold Koplewicz | Posted 05.25.2011

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There are many important and complicated issues in child mental health. We're only beginning to understand healthy brain development and what happens in the brain when psychiatric disorders emerge.

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7 Myths About Child Mental Health

Dr. Harold Koplewicz | Posted 11.17.2011

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Debunking myths about child mental health is critical to getting more children the help and understanding they deserve.

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Madgirl: What Happened to Sally's Psychoanalysis on Mad Men?

Dr. Prudence L. Gourguechon | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Neuroscience, Children's Mental Health, Madmen, Psychoanalysis, Alcoholism, Mad Men, Mad Men Sally Draper, Healthy Living News

I was really looking forward to seeing what happened next after Sally Draper's initial visit to a child analyst in episode 5 of this season's Mad Men. But Sally and her problems and her treatment didn't show up at all in the subsequent episode.

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Solving the Mental Health Crisis for Our Children

Rosalynn Carter | Posted 11.17.2011

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Today we need to acknowledge that too many children in our nation are left to struggle with a host of stressful circumstances--violence, divorce, poverty, war, to mention just a few, without effective supports.

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Childhood Psychiatric Diseases

Dr. Harold Koplewicz | Posted 11.17.2011

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There are more children and teens with a psychiatric disorder than with leukemia, diabetes, heart disease, and AIDS combined, and the effects are staggering.

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