Youth Mental Health
Youth Mental Health
Year 3, Week 45 (147 total reports)
22.02.2023-28.02.2023
REVIEW and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Adolescent mental health (salud mental adolescente) especially among young women (mujer jóvenes) is a central theme to this week’s links.
This Week’s Top Links
28.02.2023
The Key To Tackling Our Mental Health Crisis: Community-Based Care
The role of a leader today must be to connect those who are well-off with the vulnerable or as Dorothy Day used to say, “to afflict the comfortable and the comfort the afflicted.” Too many of our leaders act as if they are the afflicted when, in fact, most have not really known hardship. In this article, the author recalls when his own child was overwhelmed by mental health issues and a community stepped in to assist the child and family. Now he oversees a non-profit organization that creates community for the vulnerable.
27.02.2023
Seattle's Third Avenue Project takes a new approach to old problems
https://crosscut.com/news/2023/02/seattles-third-avenue-project-takes-new-approach-old-problems
I took special interest in this story because 1) I WAS a homeless youth on the streets of Seattle and 2) I worked with a pre-cursor to the program long before it had any funding or structure. This project is a model for communities around the world.
25.02.2023
A mom describes her tween son's brain. It's a must-read for all parents
Not only does this mom do a good job of describing the teen brain, but she does it to teach her own tween about what’s going on inside his brain. Adolescents need to know about all the physiological changes that are occurring to both their bodies AND their brains. Knowledge is one part of understanding and can lead to empathy and self-compassion.
24.02.2023
3 Things People Who Are Good at Conversation Don't Do, According to a Research Psychologist
At different times in my conversations, I have been guilty of all three of these conversation blockers. Naming them is the first step to ending them.
23.02.2023
No, Teen Suicide Isn’t Rising Because Life Got Objectively Worse
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/02/teen-suicide-depression-girls-social-media.html
What many people don’t realize about the adolescent brain is that it begins as very concrete operational, in other words, the immediate is given an almost compulsive focus. Social media isn’t the only issue here, although limiting social media is one of the solutions. Adolescents can become obsessively entranced by comparisons and excessively sensitive to criticism. Generally speaking, any social filter or healthy boundary they have must be developed with the assistance of a healthy adult.
22.02.2023
Bertrand Russell on the Secret of Happiness
https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/02/21/bertrand-russell-happiness/
I love a phrase this author uses in her article, “Unselfing.” It is a regular exercise she uses in her life to gain perspective. She cites happiness as a state where we are “dissolved into something complete and great.” When we are at the happiest, this state of transient hypofrontality (getting lost to the moment—and, in particular—lost to the critical self) is worth growing in the regular habits of our lives. What do you do on a frequent bases to “unself?”
This Week’s Links
28.02.2023
The Key To Tackling Our Mental Health Crisis: Community-Based Care
Ukraine Releases Banksy Mural Stamp To Mark One Year Anniversary of Russia’s Invasion
https://mymodernmet.com/ukraine-banksy-stamp/
Full-Time Teacher Forced To Deliver Pizzas Because She 'Can't Survive' On Her Teaching Paycheck
https://www.yourtango.com/news/full-time-teacher-deliver-pizzas-she-cant-survive-teaching-salary
Top 26 Resources for Learning Sign Language
https://www.ireviews.com/sign-language-resources
27.02.2023
Seattle's Third Avenue Project takes a new approach to old problems
https://crosscut.com/news/2023/02/seattles-third-avenue-project-takes-new-approach-old-problems
How to help teen girls’ mental health struggles | New Pittsburgh Courier
https://newpittsburghcourier.com/2023/02/27/how-to-help-teen-girls-mental-health-struggles/
Want to Raise Children Who Become Emotionally Intelligent Leaders? Try the “Rule of Reflection”
You'll Never Be Happy If You Keep Trying To Solve Your Problems This Way
https://www.yourtango.com/self/youll-never-be-happy-keep-trying-solve-problems-this-way
Dr. Randy Cale’s Terrific Parenting: Part II: Managing the child with ADD/ADHD
I’m a teacher and have a go-to phrase to make sure kids do things the first time you tell them to – it works every time
A lack of problem-solving skills and rigid thinking linked to vaccine refusal, study finds
26.02.2023
Clarifying What Matters
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mindfully-doing-what-matters/202302/clarifying-what-matters
How to help young people limit screen time — and feel better about how they look
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/02/26/1159099629/teens-social-media-body-image
Teacher says schools need to keep students’ info from ‘Christo-fascist’ parents
25.02.2023
A mom describes her tween son's brain. It's a must-read for all parents
Analysis: There’s a mental health crisis among teen girls. Here are some ways to support them
Zen Dens: Creating Mental Health Spaces at School
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/zen-dens-creating-mental-health-spaces-at-school/2023/02
Students across Florida walk out in protest of Gov. Ron DeSantis' anti-American policies
How to Know When Your Child Needs Help
Teen suicide sprouts from depression or mood disorder, says expert
https://www.citizen.co.za/news/teen-suicide-sprouts-from-depression-or-mood-disorder-february-2023/
How to Help a Child with Anxiety, According to Experts
https://www.purewow.com/family/how-to-help-a-child-with-anxiety
Parenting Coach Shares Top Tip For Dealing With A Strong-Willed Child
People With High Emotional Intelligence Use These 3 Incredibly Powerful Words Every Single Day
Parents Swear by These Anxiety Tents To Help Kids Relax—and They’re All on Sale
https://www.parents.com/anxiety-tents-amazon-sale-7113624
24.02.2023
3 Things People Who Are Good at Conversation Don't Do, According to a Research Psychologist
Why People Interrupt Us and What to Do About It
Social Media Researcher Calls CDC Report “The Last Straw”
https://mindmatters.ai/2023/02/social-media-researcher-calls-cdc-report-the-last-straw/
‘Hugely disappointing’: Scientists, doctors denounce Idaho plan to criminalize mRNA vaccines
Florida Students Stage Walkout Over Ron DeSantis' Anti-Trans, Anti-Diversity Policies
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/florida-college-walkout-desantis_n_63f7a52de4b0e2590d423d36
Book bans internalize ‘shame’ for young LGBTQ+ people, advocates say. Here’s how they’re pushing back.
https://19thnews.org/2023/02/book-bans-lgbtq-reading/
23.02.2023
No, Teen Suicide Isn’t Rising Because Life Got Objectively Worse
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/02/teen-suicide-depression-girls-social-media.html
Do You Have a "Set Mind" or a "Mindset"?
The next steps for Lee County GOP’s “Ban the jab” resolution
https://winknews.com/2023/02/22/the-next-steps-for-lee-county-gops-ban-the-jab-resolution/
22.02.2023
Bertrand Russell on the Secret of Happiness
https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/02/21/bertrand-russell-happiness/
Colleges have a role in cultivating hopefulness (opinion) | Inside Higher Ed
https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2023/02/22/colleges-have-role-cultivating-hopefulness-opinion
Adults Are Letting Teen Girls Down
The Book That Explains Why Our Approach to Teen Unhappiness Is All Wrong
https://slate.com/culture/2023/02/emotional-lives-teenagers-lisa-damour-interview.html
This class requires ChatGPT usage, and the results are surprising
https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-class-requires-chatgpt-usage-the-results-are-surprising/
You Don’t Need to Be “the Boss” to Be a Leader
https://hbr.org/2023/02/you-dont-need-to-be-the-boss-to-be-a-leader
This Family Therapist–Created Quiz Pinpoints Inner Child Wounds That Could Be Influencing Your Behavior
https://www.wellandgood.com/inner-child-wounds/
Oxytocin’s effects aren’t just about love