Youth Mental Health
Youth Mental Health
Year 3, Week 49 (151 total reports)
29.03.2023-04.04.2023
REVIEW and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Bravery and an Intrinsic Desire to Learn (Valentía y un deseo intrínseco de aprender). How do we identify these traits and develop them in our relationships/leadership?
This Week’s Top Links
04.04.2023
What Looks Like Bravery: An Epic Journey from Loss to Love
https://nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/looks-like-bravery-epic-journey-loss-love-bookbite/41302/
All of us experience adversity, for some of us those experiences become trauma. This is a book that doesn’t gloss over the grieving process and invites you to probe a little deeper into grief as well. Those who know me, know that I believe that if we don’t grieve well, we grieve long. Dr. Braitman has extraordinary insights built from her personal experiences and significant research. I have friends who have personal experience and substantial expertise in this area and I am going to recommend this book to them.
03.04.2023
Larry Summers calls the fact that one in 25 dies before age 40 ‘the most disturbing set of data on America that I have encountered in a long time’
https://fortune.com/2023/04/03/larry-summers-us-life-exectancy-mortality-rates/
This was in my news feed and I wasn’t initially intrigued by the article. However, upon exploring it, I felt it was a significant review of important data. Thank you, Mr. Summers, for calling this research to our/my attention. In the United States, the average age of death has been falling and an increased number children are dying. Either one of these statistics would be alarming in and of themself—especially in a country with as much wealth as the US, where the leading cause of death in children is gun-related deaths. It appears nothing significant will happen in Congress on that front even after another school shooting because the NRA has its money running through too many congressional veins. I would especially point towards the hypocrisy of Senator Ted Cruz. He received more money from the NRA than any US congress person and is constantly clouding real solutions with ones that would put more guns in classrooms. The simple facts are that an AR Ban has worked to reduce mass shootings and no study has ever shown that an increase gun availability leads to a decrease in gun violence (quite the opposite). Senator Cruz and others will be remembered in history for choosing guns over children. His negligence and falsehoods border on criminal.
02.04.2023
Harsh Discipline Increases Risk of Children Developing Lasting Mental Health Problems - Neuroscience News
https://neurosciencenews.com/harsh-discipline-mental-health-22912/
This research needs to be shared with every school district and board in the world. We also need to expand it to associate harsh psychological discipline (sarcasm) with physical discipline. The learning part of every thinking being’s brain shuts down with harshness. When an adult becomes harsh, the child is no longer thinking about their past behavior, they are thinking about the current threat… and that current threat is the critical adult.
01.04.2023
How to Catch Anger Cues in Children and Ourselves
Since anger shuts down cognitive functioning and overwhelms the brain with fight/flight or freeze responses, it is important that we recognize the early cues that someone’s cognitive brain is beginning to shut down. It is just as important (if not more so) that we identify those cues in ourselves as in the children around us. Have you mapped out your anger (threat) cues and created a strategy for healthy ways to address the underlying issue(s)?
31.03.2023
How to Promote the Intrinsic Desire to Learn
https://www.edutopia.org/article/promote-intrinsic-desire-to-learn/
The real mission of education should be to help people develop a desire for learning, not to feed them information and see if they can repeat it back on a standardized test. This in-depth article looks at the actions we can take to increase the desire to learn in any environment (school or workplace).
30.03.2023
People share the 18 things that are a 'subtle sign' someone is really smart
https://www.upworthy.com/people-share-the-things-that-are-a-subtle-sign-someone-is-really-smart-rp
This article will not only give you signs to identify intelligence in others, it will also provide behavioral goals to enhance intelligence (awareness) in your own life. I know it did for me.
29.03.2023
How to foster your purpose wherever you are in life
https://apple.news/ATwuGbYnvTCqkeZZF2OqLiw
In all of my outreaches to young people, I sought to enhance systems that would 1) increase inherent values chosen by the children, and 2) create rich environments for adding meaning and influence in young people’s lives. This article identifies a number of steps you can take to focus on goal No. 2, in any adult or child environment.
This Week’s Links
04.04.2023
What Looks Like Bravery: An Epic Journey from Loss to Love
https://nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/looks-like-bravery-epic-journey-loss-love-bookbite/41302/
Take Control of the Story You Tell About Yourself
After a traumatic event, how can teachers best help students?
https://www.chalkbeat.org/23664895/students-traumatic-events-school-violence-shooting-how-to-talk
Seeing Amazing in All Children: Sesame Workshop's Autism Acceptance Month Initiative
https://www.parents.com/sesame-workshop-celebrates-autism-acceptance-month-7373074
03.04.2023
Larry Summers calls the fact that one in 25 dies before age 40 ‘the most disturbing set of data on America that I have encountered in a long time’
https://fortune.com/2023/04/03/larry-summers-us-life-exectancy-mortality-rates/
The Extraordinary Ways Rhythm Shapes Our Lives
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-extraordinary-ways-rhythm-shapes-our-lives/
Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Therapy
Middle School Students Face a Trifecta of Challenges. Here's How to Help (Opinion)
Say hello to your new tutor: It’s ChatGPT
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/03/chatgpt-khanmigo-tutor-silicon-valley/
02.04.2023
Harsh Discipline Increases Risk of Children Developing Lasting Mental Health Problems - Neuroscience News
https://neurosciencenews.com/harsh-discipline-mental-health-22912/
Having camera on during online classes increases social appearance anxiety, which decreases learning of students
The secret to thriving in life? It’s not about being comfortable
01.04.2023
How to Catch Anger Cues in Children and Ourselves
Use these 6 steps to teach your kids how to say 'I'm sorry': 'A good apology takes ownership'
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/31/use-these-6-steps-to-teach-your-kids-how-to-apologize.html
6 Strategies to Bolster Student-Led Discussions
https://www.ascd.org/el/articles/6-strategies-to-bolster-student-led-discussions
Want to land one of A.I.’s lucrative six-figure roles? Experts say there are ‘no technical skills required’
https://fortune.com/2023/03/31/ai-jobs-six-figure-salary-prompt-engineer-arts-major/
Biden Offers Support to Trans Americans on Transgender Day of Visibility
https://www.advocate.com/politics/joe-biden-transgender-visibility
31.03.2023
How to Promote the Intrinsic Desire to Learn
https://www.edutopia.org/article/promote-intrinsic-desire-to-learn/
13 Questions That Measure "Flow Proneness" in Daily Life
The Jobs Most Exposed to ChatGPT
https://apple.news/ARSvzqvPSQp-04EfjfYfPog
Emotionally Intelligent People Take These 4 Steps to Avoid Being Critical or Judgmental and Improve Professional and Personal Relationships
30.03.2023
People share the 18 things that are a 'subtle sign' someone is really smart
https://www.upworthy.com/people-share-the-things-that-are-a-subtle-sign-someone-is-really-smart-rp
Common Teaching Practices to Leave Behind
‘The public stigmatizes them’: what it’s like being a teacher in America
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/30/the-teachers-book-alexandra-robbins-review
Toys And Tales Helping Ukraine Kids Process War Trauma
https://www.barrons.com/news/toys-and-tales-helping-ukraine-kids-process-war-trauma-bf5a43cf
New Study Reveals Sharp Decline in American IQ Scores as the “Reverse Flynn Effect” Takes Center Stage
How to use ChatGPT to write an essay
https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-use-chatgpt-to-write-an-essay/
29.03.2023
How to foster your purpose wherever you are in life
https://apple.news/ATwuGbYnvTCqkeZZF2OqLiw
How To Raise Kids Who Can Handle Whatever Life Throws at Them
https://www.womansworld.com/posts/parenting/how-to-raise-resilient-kids
It's Your Weaknesses, Not Strengths, That Make You A Good Coach And Leader
I’m a Psychotherapist—Here Are the 5 Keys to Letting My Stress Go
How to heal from childhood trauma: a brief guide to heal from hidden wounds
This Friday, LGBTQ+ Youth Across the U.S. Will Be Marching for Their Autonomy
https://www.them.us/story/lgbtq-queer-youth-assemble-march-trans-day-visibility