Youth Mental Health & COVID-19
Youth Mental Health & COVID-19
Year 3, Week 35 (137 total reports)
14.12.2022-20.12.2022
REVIEW and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Happy Holidays (well maybe not for everyone). Suggestions for helping you or those in your life who experience painful holidays. Also, a number of inspiring posters I found in this week’s news feeds.
This Week’s Top Links
20.12.2022
Were You Parentified as a Kid? Here’s What That Means, and How It Might Affect Your Relationships in Adulthood
https://www.wellandgood.com/parentification-effects/
Working with orphanages or the foster care system—or really, any group of children today—one certainly sees the far-reaching impact of parentification. Whether it is a child who feels they need to go “home” to care for a recovering parent or for their younger siblings, the feelings can be overwhelming for the child. This article does a good job explaining how prettification occurs and what its impacts can be. So whether you feel you were parentified or work with others who might have been, this is a good article to review and share.
19.12.2022
How to handle those people who always have to be right
I’m fond of mentioning one of my Marriage and Family Professors in University who said, “Would you rather be right or married?” Unfortunately, some people really would rather be right and divorce rates partially attest to that. But what do you do when you know someone—in a friendship or otherwise—whose self-esteem is tied to being right or knowing-it-all? That’s what this article is about and with family visits over the Holidays on the horizon, this is a very timely article.
18.12.2022
Mastering the art of constructive disagreement
Unless you have no personal values, you will inevitably have disagreements. Disagreements don’t have to end on a destructive note and this article gives some very fine suggestions on how to make sure your disagreements have mostly constructive outcomes.
17.12.2022
Festive season, a joyous time for some and a threat to mental health for others
I and many others know people who will be institutionalized and/or pain during this holiday season. Emotional or physical; holidays, birthdays and other days of celebration can be painful reminders of promises unfilled or relationships abandoned. With COVID, we need to extra vigilant of those who have lost loved ones over the last few years or are now facing a debilitating illness perhaps even related to the virus. This article will help, not only with raising awareness, but also with assisting others who find the Holidays daunting.
16.12.2022
How to Help a Teen Who Has Very Few Friends & Is Suffering With Loneliness
https://www.yourtango.com/family/help-teens-make-friends
Loneliness has been an epidemic exacerbated by the epidemic of COVID. Especially for teens whose primary tool of socialization (school and school-related activities) has been taken away. As we have seen, social media is no substitute for actual relationships and those who are lonely (at any age) need a special assist right now. This is a simple, compassionate read on reaching out. Read it yourself and/or pass it along.
15.12.2022
'There’s No Such Thing as Bad Emotions' and Other Truths Students Need to Know (Opinion)
Most of us have been called “bad” at one time or another for expressing intense emotions. Those doing the “name-calling” may not have been adept at discerning between the emotion and its expression (behavior). From infancy to adulthood, we need to know that all feelings are legitimate, and we need help learning what expressions are constructive.
14.12.2022
5 Reasons Complaining Is Ruining Your Life and Crushing Your Happiness
https://everydaypower.com/stop-complaining/
I remember in University reading research that counteracted the benefits of cathartic behaviors such as hitting a pillow or complaining. There is constructive catharsis and destructive catharsis. This article examines how complaining is a destructive cathartic behavior.
This Week’s Links
20.12.2022
Were You Parentified as a Kid? Here’s What That Means, and How It Might Affect Your Relationships in Adulthood
https://www.wellandgood.com/parentification-effects/
How to stop toxic self-talk, explained in 6 minutes
https://bigthink.com/the-well/toxic-self-talk/
That Feeling When Have So Many Things to Do You Can't Do Any of Them? Psychologists Have a Name for It and a Solution
The Ten Best Children's Books of 2022
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-ten-best-childrens-books-of-2022-180981325/
Don’t send Grandma to the ICU this Christmas
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/20/health/covid-flu-vaccine-fatigue-holiday-masking-wellness/
19.12.2022
How to handle those people who always have to be right
Avoid these 5 passive-aggressive phrases that 'irritate' people the most, says speech expert
5 Helpful Things to Do When You Think Life Sucks
https://tinybuddha.com/blog/5-helpful-things-do-when-think-life-sucks/
10 Oddly Effective Psychological Tricks To Help You Win An Argument (Fairly)
https://www.yourtango.com/self/win-argument-fairly
18.12.2022
Mastering the art of constructive disagreement
What Is Catastrophizing And How Can You Stop It? - Glam
https://www.glam.com/1134350/what-is-catastrophizing-and-how-can-you-stop-it/
Emotionally Intelligent People Use 3 Simple Words to Beat Perfectionism and Work Faster (and Better)
Our Best Tips For Fighting Back Against Low Self-Esteem - Glam
https://www.glam.com/1137313/our-best-tips-for-fighting-back-against-low-self-esteem/
What Pretend Play Tells Us About Social Cognition
https://neurosciencenews.com/pretend-play-social-cognition-22103/
How Poverty Academically Affects Black Children
Everything You Need to Know About COVID on Surfaces
https://parade.com/health/how-long-covid-stays-on-surfaces
Updated COVID booster shots reduce the risk of hospitalization, CDC reports
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/18/1143833585/covid-bivalent-booster-reduce-hospitalization-risk-cdc
17.12.2022
Festive season, a joyous time for some and a threat to mental health for others
How to Practice Forgiveness
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-shared-existence/202212/how-to-practice-forgiveness
Three Skills Leaders Will Desperately Need In 2023
Top 10 ADHD News & Research Highlights of 2022
https://www.additudemag.com/top-adhd-news-research-dyslexia-medication-time-blindness/
A Harvard brain expert shares 6 things he never does in order to stay 'sharp, energized and healthy'
This Beauty: A Philosophy of Being Alive
https://nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/beauty-philosophy-alive-bookbite/38076/
16.12.2022
How to Help a Teen Who Has Very Few Friends & Is Suffering With Loneliness
https://www.yourtango.com/family/help-teens-make-friends
An Age-by-Age Guide to SEL Activities for Kids and Teens
https://apple.news/AR-vjUQzHQ62KXt01TV-I6A
5 Signs Your Child's Behavior Is Out of Control
https://www.verywellmind.com/signs-your-childs-behavior-is-out-of-control-6892302
The Obvious Answer to Homelessness
https://apple.news/ATzWu5vrdQQmkB8MzF0nBZg
They lost best friends, became hypervigilant, felt guilt: The kids — now teens — who survived Sandy Hook
https://apple.news/ArrTdw1_qQXazSOICqLBuFQ
How to support grieving children over the holidays: 5 tips from a child psychologist
https://apple.news/AbPKwdMXkTo-laAWRd6K2Fg
15.12.2022
'There’s No Such Thing as Bad Emotions' and Other Truths Students Need to Know (Opinion)
7 Books About Codependency to Help You Better Understand the Condition
https://bookriot.com/books-about-codependency/
Sneaky Signs Your Kid Craves Connection (& How Not To Blow It)
https://www.scarymommy.com/parenting/sneaky-signs-kid-craves-connection
How to Create a Healthy Relationship With Social Media
14.12.2022
5 Reasons Complaining Is Ruining Your Life and Crushing Your Happiness
https://everydaypower.com/stop-complaining/
Amid Pandemic Learning Loss, There’s an Urgent Need to Bring Parents and Teachers Together
https://msmagazine.com/2022/12/13/pandemic-covid-learning-loss-parents-teachers/
14 Charts This Year That Helped Explain COVID’s Impact on America’s Schools
https://apple.news/AKffTMze_Qq-NgP_BbebWBg
Eight weeks of mindfulness training improves adolescents’ attentional control, study finds
The Only ADHD Study Playlist
https://bwog.com/2022/12/the-only-adhd-study-playlist/
Coronavirus Today: The people who face the greatest COVID risk