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Marijuana: Facts, Myths, and Ben’s Story
Authored by: Ranna Parekh, M.D., M.P.H.…other ways, including harm to brain health and difficulties with memory, attention and organization; impaired driving; and even mental health issues including anxiety or depression. Medical Marijuana With marijuana fully…
What If My Child Is Suicidal?
Authored by: Steven Schlozman, MD…Interpersonal conflicts are frequent for kids; however, if you combine these conflicts with a pre-existing psychiatric disorder (usually a mood disorder such as depression), and especially if you involve substances,…
The Emotional Power of Grandparenting: Dr. Gene Beresin on PlanMember
Authored by: Gene Beresin, Executive Director and Masha Mesyef…complicated things like separation anxiety, nightmares, refusal to go to school, or trouble sleeping, to more significant issues like depression, anxiety, stress, or loneliness. We can help out. But one…
Fostering Independence in Teens & Young Adults with ADHD: A Parent’s Guide
Authored by: Anthony L. Rostain, M.D., M.A. and Gene Beresin, Executive Director…dialed up stress for teens and young adults. Many report physical or emotional symptoms of stress, loneliness, anxiety, and depression have increased since the late 1970s and escalated during and…
Teen Romance in the Digital Era
Authored by: Gene Beresin, Executive Director and Khadijah Booth Watkins, Associate Director…also victims, are the ones who are most distressed and most and subject to the most late in later life, depression, anxiety and, frankly, suicidal thinking. But what about the…
Finding Gratitude in a Time of Fear, Anger, and Uncertainty
Authored by: Gene Beresin, Executive Director and Khadijah Booth Watkins, Associate Director…You know, such like my mother used to talk about the Great Depression. And the kids would always say, hey, Grandma, tell us about that great depression. You know, when…
Talking With Your Child About Asian Microaggressions: A Guide for Parents and Caregivers
Authored by: Mary Shen, M.D., M.Sc. and Gene Beresin, Executive Director…microaggressions, and other forms of discrimination, was linked to depression, social alienation, and poor academic performance, as well as increased suicidal ideation. These findings are especially concerning, given that suicide…
ADHD: The Transition to Adulthood
Authored by: Gene Beresin, Executive Director, Khadijah Booth Watkins, Associate Director and Anthony L. Rostain, M.D., M.A.…see all kinds of problems, like eating disorders, eating disorder highly associated with ADHD anxiety disorders, especially social anxiety, mood disorders, especially including, by the way, not just depression, but…
Overprotective Parenting: The Causes and Consequences of Being a Helicopter Parent
Authored by: Gene Beresin, Executive Director and Spenser Egnatz, Outreach Associate…depression, anxiety, stress, loneliness, and suicidal behavior may, in part, derive from this socially parallel trend. However, the kids who maintain emotional and behavioral stability within this culture are those…
It’s Not a Burden: Talking with Your Asian Child About Mental Health
Authored by: Mary Shen, M.D., M.Sc. and Gene Beresin, Executive Director…result in hypertension, so too may it trigger anxiety, depression or other psychiatric conditions. After all, the brain is an organ in the body, and is subject to internal and…
Parents Under Pressure: A Response to the Recent U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on the Mental Health
Authored by: Gene Beresin, Executive Director and Khadijah Booth Watkins, Associate Director…scary, I think, because, you know, we know that we’re in the midst of a youth mental health epidemic with escalating anxiety, depression, stress, loneliness, suicide, that’s been going on…
Equine Therapy. How Does It Work? feat. Janice Gilman of BINA Farm – Shrinking It Down
Authored by: Gene Beresin, Executive Director and Khadijah Booth Watkins, Associate Director…strength. In some cases, just a few sessions of Equine Therapy can produce improvement. Let’s take equine facilitated psychotherapy, there are individuals who have reduced anxiety and depression through psychological…
Lonely College Students: What Can We Do to Help? – Shrinking It Down
Authored by: Gene Beresin, Executive Director and Khadijah Booth Watkins, Associate Director…really quite concerning. And it’s and you combine this, with skyrocketing rates of depression, anxiety, stress, and suicidal thinking and behavior. Now, it’s a chicken and the egg thing. Loneliness…
Understanding Obesity Stigma, feat. Angela Fitch, MD, FACP, FOMA
Authored by: Angela Fitch, MD, FACP, FOMA, Gene Beresin, Executive Director and Khadijah Booth Watkins, Associate Director…challenges that cause changes in mental health, that do affect our, our appetite are the kinds of foods we reach for, especially teenagers. So we know with depression, for example,…
The Benefits of Music Therapy, ft. Marisabelle Díaz-Falcón, MPH, MT-BC – Shrinking It Down
Authored by: Khadijah Booth Watkins, Associate Director and Gene Beresin, Executive Director…ailments benefit from music therapy and thinking about maybe kids who are struggling with anxiety or depression or maybe have OCD? Marisabelle Diaz-Falcon 15:11 Yeah, definitely, any child can benefit…
