Youth Mental Health
Youth Mental Health
Year 3, Week 46 (148 total reports)
01.03.2023-07.03.2023
REVIEW and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Learn how to raise sensitive, empathic children (niños sensibles y empáticos) that will assist each other when anxiety (ansiedad) feels overwhelming.
This Week’s Top Links
07.03.2023
Radical Compassion and the Seeds of Change: The Dalai Lama’s Illustrated Ecological Philosophy for the Next Generation
https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/03/06/heart-to-heart-dalai-lama-patrick-mcdonnell/
Links from this online resource (The Marginalian) are rapidly becoming some of my favorites. This article will reveal why. This article reviews a brilliant book filled with compelling quotes, illustrations and poetry that speak to our connectedness—both to each other and to our environment. I hope that parent(s), teachers and home care staff will not only invest in this book, but also invest in taking the time to read it next to a young person. If I were still in a detention setting, this is exactly the type of book I would ask our “golden greeters” to come and read to our incarcerated youth.
06.03.2023
How to Grow Re-enchanted with the World: A Salve for the Sense of Existential Meaninglessness and Burnout
https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/03/04/katherine-may-enchantment/
Is it burnout or have we forgotten how to be enchanted? This article (also from my new favorite, the Marginalian) asks us to examine this critical question. Attaching meaning to our lives (and the lives of our children) raises our well-being and our engagement. However, it does take time and reflection. It is another important habit to co-regulate with children as they negotiate adolescence.
05.03.2023
Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World
We do the term “sensitive” a disservice when we use it to imply that a person is easily offended. Sensitive people are also highly aware—of their environment and the feelings of the people around them. In a positive light, we would call “sensitive” people empathic. Empathy doesn’t have to lead to frailty and an ego that is easily insulted. In its true form, being sensitive helps people become good leaders or teachers because they know how to read a room and tell the readiness of a crowd. Examining the positive aspects of sensitivity and limiting the negatives is beneficial for our lives and the lives of our children.
04.03.2023
Kids who do these 12 things have 'highly sensitive' brains—why parenting experts say it's an 'advantage'
As mentioned in the previous paragraph, being sensitive has plusses and minuses, unfortunately some people have used it as a label to typecast people. In this article, see how leaders, with expertise in parenting, have chosen to see the plusses of being sensitive and learned how to grow those positive aspects in the children around them.
03.03.2023
A surprising remedy for teens in mental health crises
https://hechingerreport.org/a-surprising-remedy-for-teens-in-mental-health-crises/
Training young people to recognize anxiety in each other and giving them tools to help a friend take a mental health break (or seek assistance if complicated) is truly the most advanced way to help youth. In my own work in schools, young people who were trained in this manner increased their awareness, felt a sense of deeper meaning in their school culture and had a healthier sense of well-being. We spend so much time prompting young people to compete, it is worth spending an equal amount of time to train youth to cooperate. Of course, any cultural change among youth must be first led by a cultural change among adults. A culture that is filled with specific praise—especially praising the efforts of each other—and devoid of sarcasm. Sarcasm—when used to “discipline” children—is a negligent of adults who are frustrated they can’t use physical violence to force compliance. It prompts students who are less cognitively adept at the subtleties of sarcasm, to use physical means to bully (force compliance on) others. Most of the sarcasm I’ve seen teachers use with children is really a form of insulting the child. We don’t inspire healthy cognitive development by insulting or hitting people. That only serves to shut down the learning and growth potential of the brain (see the article below about “The Blindness of Blame.”)
02.03.2023
From ‘Dilbert’ to DeSantis, white grievance is all the rage
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/dilbert-scott-adams-white-grievance-rcna72688
Scott Adams (creator or Dilbert) joined the ranks of many raging white xenophobes this week with a rant about white grievance. White Grievance is close-minded view of the world that sees compassion (being woke) as a threat. DeSantis labels it as liberalism and—in his manifesto for a presidential run—“The Courage to Be Free”—reveals how he wants to make his racist and anti-LGBTQ views into both the law of the land and the curricula we teach our children. Indeed, many of the policies he is trying to pass in Florida are unconstitutional; but when has that stopped some authoritarian members of the GOP from trying to force their viewpoints on others?
01.03.2023
The Blindness of Blame: How Anger Stops Awareness and Growth
Many members of the authoritarian branch of the GOP have begun to label awareness and growth under one negative term: “Woke.” As if it is a weakness to be compassionate. In fact, some members have elevated the use of blame to an art form and are attempting to instill it in the policies of the US. Legalizing rage, hatred and racism and instilling it as the primary curricula in schools, is simply the beginning of an authoritarian state the undermines democracy. It is the opposite of what the framers of the constitution (though many were also slave-holders) had in mind when they proposed a new nation separate from England’s monarchy.
This Week’s Links
07.03.2023
Radical Compassion and the Seeds of Change: The Dalai Lama’s Illustrated Ecological Philosophy for the Next Generation
https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/03/06/heart-to-heart-dalai-lama-patrick-mcdonnell/
Teachers change lives -- but what makes a great teacher?
https://theconversation.com/teachers-change-lives-but-what-makes-a-great-teacher-198313
What Can Teachers Do to Engage Anxious Students?
New study provides insight into the relationship between ADHD and school attendance problems in adolescents
How to Save Academic Freedom From Ron DeSantis
‘Parental rights’ advocates don’t really trust parents
https://floridaphoenix.com/2023/03/06/parental-rights-advocates-dont-really-trust-parents/
This Is How Long It Really Takes to Break a Habit—and 7 Steps to Actually Do It
https://www.realsimple.com/how-to-break-a-habit-7197984
06.03.2023
How to Grow Re-enchanted with the World: A Salve for the Sense of Existential Meaninglessness and Burnout
https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/03/04/katherine-may-enchantment/
A New Distillation of What Works in Classroom Instruction
For Educators, ChatGPT Poses Big Questions—and Big Possibilities
How common is transgender treatment regret, detransitioning?
Exercise Isn't the Only Hobby That Boosts Your Mental Health
https://www.cnet.com/health/mental/exercise-isnt-the-only-hobby-that-boosts-your-mental-health/
05.03.2023
Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World
2 Ways to Gain Control Over Your Anger
Use the ‘Stop Drop, and Roll’ Technique To Deal When You’re Emotionally Triggered
https://www.wellandgood.com/how-to-respond-emotional-triggers/
04.03.2023
Kids who do these 12 things have 'highly sensitive' brains—why parenting experts say it's an 'advantage'
How to Stop Being Defensive
https://www.verywellmind.com/how-to-stop-being-defensive-7187366
03.03.2023
A surprising remedy for teens in mental health crises
https://hechingerreport.org/a-surprising-remedy-for-teens-in-mental-health-crises/
America’s teenage girls are not OK
https://apple.news/ACY5HDOJ4RB2kbwcyKGEREg
What Losing My Two Children Taught Me About Grief
https://apple.news/AInpkklAMSnK0rBBkDzYO7A
John Fetterman shows how depression can become an emergency. Experts say to watch for these signs of crisis
https://fortune.com/well/2023/03/02/signs-depression-emergency-signs-of-crisis/
The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning to Enjoy More Well-Being
A Simple Breathing Technique to Calm Your Nerves
https://www.shannonkyeageryoga.com/post/how-to-do-box-breathing
Self-Acceptance and Self-Esteem Aren't the Same Thing. What to Know
02.03.2023
From ‘Dilbert’ to DeSantis, white grievance is all the rage
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/dilbert-scott-adams-white-grievance-rcna72688
How to Find Joy in Your Sisyphean Existence
A psychology expert shares the 7 toxic signs of 'highly insecure' people—and how to deal with them
The GOP wants to erase LGBTQ people
https://epgn.com/2023/03/01/the-gop-wants-to-erase-lgbtq-people/
01.03.2023
The Blindness of Blame: How Anger Stops Awareness and Growth
Deaths of Despair
https://www.instagram.com/p/CpNx8EDpRhK/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=
Nature baths can positively impact on your amygdala, the part of the brain that registers stress
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/02/heres-why-a-nature-bath-helps-your-brain-recover/
How To Create Good Sleep Habits for Kids — 11 Sleep Tips for Infants, Adolescents, and Teens
https://www.womansworld.com/posts/health/how-to-teach-good-sleep-habits-for-kids
How do you end a conversation with someone who won't stop talking? 19 people share their tricks.
https://www.upworthy.com/how-do-you-stop-a-conversation-with-someone-who-wont-stop-talking-rp2
Three Big Takeaways from Educational Leadership’s Report on Remote Learning
Transforming Empathy Into Compassion: Why It Matters
Dr Becky Is Here to Help Make Your Parenting Journey Easier
https://www.sheknows.com/parenting/articles/2716575/dr-becky-kennedy-good-inside-parenting-advice/