Youth Mental Health
Youth Mental Health
Year 3, Week 44 (146 total reports)
15.02.2023-21.02.2023
REVIEW and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Living a gentle life (una vida gentil). Soft and Slow (Suave y lento) will be a part of my mantra this week. How can I invite those around me to live gentle lives?
This Week’s Top Links
21.02.2023
If You Have Trouble Taking Slow, Deep Breaths, Think Instead About Breathing ‘Softly’
https://www.wellandgood.com/soft-breathing-technique/
One of the links I posted a couple weeks ago spoke about helping children when they are anxious. A tool they suggested was asking children to get on the floor with the child and pretend we are sloths; in other words, move and breath slowly. I embrace the concept of slow and soft. The words for go slowly in Spanish are “ir poco, a poco,” or, “go little by little.” It is part of my daily mantra. “Smile, breath, go slowly.” I might even add “breath softly” to that mantra, “respira suavemente.”
20.02.2023
A Psychologist Offers 3 Tips To De- Catastrophize Your Anxious Thoughts
Telling someone to stop catastrophizing or think differently doesn’t work. The ritual application (and practice) of mindfulness is one avenue to lowering the repetitiveness or frequency of such thoughts. I always suggest practicing the mantra in quiet and calm places so that it has power in chaotic situations. This article offers a few solid practices for decreasing catastrophic thinking.
19.02.2023
Some people who have autism and Asperger's think in pictures. Kinda like Google Images.
The link to the TED Talk by Professor Temple Grandin is—by itself—worth viewing this article. She is am adult on the Autism Spectrum who has worked to help educators and parents understand this “superpower.” All of us interact with people who are neurodiverse and it behooves us to learn more about how they are different from the neurotypical.
18.02.2023
When a Loved One Is in the Grip of Despair
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/14/opinion/letters/love-depression-suicide.html
The author of this article, David Brooks, is one of my favorite contemporary commentators. He has a weekly commentary on Fridays during the PBS News Hour, currently with co-commentator, Jonathan Capehart. After Senator John Fetterman bravely revealed he was checking into a hospital for severe depression, Brooks wrote this compelling piece about a friend who suffered from despair. As typical of Brooks, his insightful commentator shares the good and the bad. What he felt he did right and what he would have done differently.
17.02.2023
To help students get jobs, faculty must learn new skills (opinion)
We can’t lead people towards a gentler, more awe-filled lives, if we are not pursuing one ourselves. One of my favorite teachers (now a principal in Saskatchewan) would never call a child by their name unless it was to offer them specific public praise. Such teachers learn the use of new cognitive skills to build the well-being of children. With constant advances in technology and behavioral sciences advancing cumulatively, remaining a learning, open-minded person is imperative. This article focuses on teachers becoming conduits for youth to increase their community involvement. In the world of our children’s futures, they will need to become super-prompters and community builders. It’s never too early to start, but it does begin with leaders (teachers, administrators, staff and parents).
16.02.2023
Positive Parenting and Children's Cognitive Development
Positive parenting, like positive psychology is firmly established with decades of research behind it. In essence, positive psychology has studied the strengths in people and how to grow them rather than just the deficits in humanity and how to correct them. This article will explain more about this branch of psychology and applied parenting practices.
15.02.2023
How to get your kids to talk about their feelings
https://theconversation.com/how-to-get-your-kids-to-talk-about-their-feelings-194336
The transition from childhood to adulthood must include the ability to process intense feelings with words instead of just actions. An analogy I use is that adolescence is a time in our lives when our emotions—often intense—are carried in an ungainly suitcase without handles or latches. As we walk through crowded places, people inevitably bump into us destabilizing our load. Eventually we will drop the suitcase and it will bust open in front of a crowd. Helping young people grow words for their emotions (the contents of the suitcase) doesn’t make the bag any lighter, but it does make it easier to carry and allow us the ability to unlatch it in our own appropriate setting.
This Week’s Links
21.02.2023
If You Have Trouble Taking Slow, Deep Breaths, Think Instead About Breathing ‘Softly’
https://www.wellandgood.com/soft-breathing-technique/
An 85-year Harvard study on the key to happiness could spell trouble for introverts—unless you know these 2 tricks
20.02.2023
A Psychologist Offers 3 Tips To De- Catastrophize Your Anxious Thoughts
Leveraging ChatGPT: Practical Ideas for Educators
https://www.ascd.org/blogs/leveraging-chatgpt-practical-ideas-for-educators?mibextid=lURqYx
17 Things Parents of Children on the Autism Spectrum Want You to Know
Dr. Randy Cale’s Terrific Parenting: Parents: Help for the child with ADD/ADHD
"Phubbing" Is Associated With Lower Social Intelligence – But There's Good News
3 Pillars of a Happy Life
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/experimentations/202302/3-pillars-of-a-happy-life
Children need compassion and understanding — not punishments and judgment
19.02.2023
Some people who have autism and Asperger's think in pictures. Kinda like Google Images.
How To Help Kids With ADHD Manage Their Feelings At School & With Friends
https://www.yourtango.com/family/help-kids-adhd-manage-feelings
10 pieces of well-worn life advice you may need to hear right now
https://apple.news/AetasWvzWRcG-6YM5BYeeJg
18.02.2023
When a Loved One Is in the Grip of Despair
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/14/opinion/letters/love-depression-suicide.html
America Should Be in the Middle of a Schools Revolution
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/opinion/america-schools-revolution.html
The neuroscience of beauty: What your brain finds beautiful – and how this shapes your thoughts
https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/the-neuroscience-of-beauty/
Your middle school child is the most amazing person
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/17/health/middle-school-children-wellness/
The Impact of ADHD on Academic Performance
6 Signs You Have Profound Emotional Trauma (And You’re Unaware Of It)
https://www.yourtango.com/self/signs-profound-emotional-trauma
Happiness Is in Your Hormones. Ways to Naturally Boost Dopamine and Serotonin
Some Schools Are Prioritizing More Sleep for Kids. Is It Making a Difference?
https://www.edutopia.org/article/school-start-time-changes-benefit-sleep/
New study finds immunity from Covid infection provides strong protection
17.02.2023
To help students get jobs, faculty must learn new skills (opinion)
It's Time to Take Teenage Mental Health Seriously
What Drives Children to Choose Compassion?
https://neurosciencenews.com/compassion-children-22519/
3 therapist-recommended online therapy platforms for teens and tips for finding the right therapist
https://www.insider.com/guides/health/mental-health/online-therapy-for-teens
Do You Want to Be Right—Or Do You Want to Be Happy?
https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a42209888/right-or-happy-relationships/
Black History, Uncensored: Nikole Hannah-Jones took GOPers to school
Ronald DeSantis Is Leading Florida to Freedom, One Ban at a Time
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a42888929/ron-desantis-banned-list/
Chelsea Handler rips Tucker Carlson to shreds for mocking her child-free life
16.02.2023
Positive Parenting and Children's Cognitive Development
Why College Students Are More Disengaged Than Ever
https://www.insidehook.com/daily_brief/news-opinion/college-students-disengaged
ChatGPT won’t take this job: The most in-demand skill is something only humans can do
Why U.S. teens aren't getting their driver's licenses
https://theweek.com/travel/1020987/why-us-teens-arent-getting-their-drivers-licenses
How We Need to Radically Rethink Conscious Awareness
Winners of the 2022 Travel Photographer of the Year Contest
15.02.2023
How to get your kids to talk about their feelings
https://theconversation.com/how-to-get-your-kids-to-talk-about-their-feelings-194336
'Why Can't I Change?' The 16 Voices in Your Head Stopping You From Reaching Your Dreams
People with social anxiety tend to engage in restrictive “safety behaviors” that make them less likable, study finds
Kindness Starts With You: How to Show Up for Yourself
Is Oxytocin Really the Love Hormone?
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/is_oxytocin_really_the_love_hormone
Beyond Rosa and Harriet: Black History Picture Book Biographies
https://bookriot.com/black-history-picture-book-biographies/
More Black Families Are Considering Home-Schooling — And It Shouldn't Be A Shock As To Why
https://apple.news/AyOmRU_4vQcO5dqF4teOP9Q
The rise of ChatGPT shows why we need a clearer approach to technology in schools
Inside Our Autistic Minds review – this beautiful documentary will make you see the world differently