If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering feelings of anger, loneliness, betrayal, or abandonment. You may recall your childhood as a time when your emotional needs were not met, when your feelings were dismissed, or when you took on adult levels of responsibility in an effort… Read More »
A new Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities initiated operations in the state of Georgia on July 1. Previously, mental health was one of 36 agencies within the state’s welfare department competing for attention and funding. Georgia has nearly 100,000 children and adolescents with severe emotional disturbances and the agency created to care for… Read More »
Based in the United Kingdom, the Emotional Health Alliance is a learning network comprised of twenty organizations that works to ensure that today’s emotional challenge does not become tomorrow’s problem. James Park, Chair of the Emotional Health Alliance: “The approaches we offer are designed to help children and young people free themselves from emotional confusion… Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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… Read More »
“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 »
Headline in today’s USA Today: Study: Most depressed kids get antidepressants but no therapy “At least half of U.S. children who take antidepressants aren’t in therapy, a large study suggests, and that delays recovery while greatly increasing the number of kids on the medication who are suicidal.” The report tracks insurance claims for antidepressants from… Read More »
Dr. Gariane Gunter, a psychiatrist in South Carolina recently crowned Mrs. United States, will dedicate her reign to raising public awareness about mental illness. Gunter is currently teaching “Breaking the Silence,” a curriculum designed by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), to all fifth grade classes at an elementary school in her hometown. http://www.btslessonplans.org… Read More »