Two months ago, in an entry titled, “The Look On Your Face,” this blog described a $2.7 million grant for an intervention program designed to help save children from lifelong emotional problems by helping youngsters ages 3-5 to read facial expressions. Just as reading facial expressions is important, so is recognizing and expressing one’s feelings. … Read More: Becoming Emotionally Aware – Vocabulary for Emotions »
On November 16, we shared in this blog efforts to make Salinas, California an “emotional-health-friendly city.” We’re now happy to provide an update. The Salinas Adult School held its annual Parent University program on Saturday, January 31. The focus of this year’s Parent University: raising emotionally healthy families. Through more than 50 workshops, parents learned… Read More: Emotionally Healthy Families »
The Belfast Telegraph reports, “More than one in ten of Northern Ireland’s schoolchildren are suffering from serious mental health problems including anorexia, bulimia, self-harming tendencies and depression – and teachers cannot cope.” The Ulster Teachers’ Union says these children “need much more support than they are currently receiving.” All post-primary schools have access to counseling,… Read More: Schoolchildren in Northern Ireland »
Under the headline, “CSI paying more attention to emotional health of students,” KMVT Channel 11 in Southern Idaho reports that “officials at the College of Southern Idaho [have] brought in professionals to teach faculty members the signs of depression, anxiety, trauma, and other disorders.” A workshop instructor says, “most of us don’t know how to… Read More: Teaching Teachers About Emotional Health »
Carroll Izard, University of Delaware Distinguished Professor of Psychology, has received a $2.7 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health for work on an intervention program to help save children from lifelong emotional problems. The project includes over 250 children in Head Start’s preschool program in Wilmington. Most of the children, ages 3… Read More: The Look On Your Face »
This week, a blog at TeachingExpertise.com in London, England reminds us of the need to promote mental and emotional health, not simply react to mental illness. The blog’s author attended an Optimus Education conference on Mental Health in Schools and was impressed with a session delivered by the Samaritans that focused on a program they’ve… Read More: Promoting Emotional Health in Schools »
Gerald Newmark, Ph.D., author of “How to Raise Emotionally Healthy Children,” is on a crusade to make Salinas, California an “emotional-health-friendly city,” according to an article published today in the Salinas Californian. In an interview on October 21, Newmark summed up his mission: “I want to raise public consciousness to the fact that one of… Read More: Emotional-Health-Friendly City »
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have found a clear connection between student health and academic success. They matched grade point averages with typical health problems for nearly 10,000 Minnesota college students. What affects grades the most? Stress! Students who reported eight or more emotional stresses – anything from failing a class to credit card debt… Read More: Student Health and Academic Success »
“Forget SATs: lesson one is a basic emotional education” – headline above Mark Johnson’s October 15 Op/Ed in The Guardian. “Too many children live with a dysfunctionality that goes back generations… At school, these children aren’t mentally or emotionally ready for the academic learning designed for others.” “The number of people with missing emotional development… Read More: Basic Emotional Education »
A recent study endorsed by the PPA (Philippine Psychiatric Association) revealed that “32 percent of government workers are suffering from one form of mental disorder or another.” “This goes to show that from all walks of life there are a lot of mental health issues that could be problematic to the individual, but they are… Read More: Mental Health in the Phillipines »