Articles containing: trauma
Tips for Helping Children Cope with Hurricanes, Storms, and Their Aftermath
Introduction
The Clay Center Team
When it comes to scary events, such as terror acts or natural disasters, our mission at the MGH Clay Center has always been to help parents appreciate the impact of kids seeing images on the screen and hearing about events that are potentially
Shrinking It Down: When Nightmares Become Reality in the U.S. (Special Episode)
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In research that’s been done about kids’ fears, the most frightening thing is losing or being left without a parent.
Through the events at the U.S.
Family: Stories of Adoption
According to the Urban Dictionary, a family is “a group of people…who genuinely love, trust, care about, and look out for each other… REAL family is a bondage that cannot be broken by any means.
Back to School: A Joy for Many, A Nightmare for Some
Most school age kids are eager to head back to school. Sure, they’ll miss their summer vacation, but the prospect of moving up a grade, seeing friends again, and even having a new teacher is really exciting.
Yet, for a few kids and their parents it’s kind of a nightmare.
Here are a few stories from years of experience.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Primer
Post-traumatic stress disorder.
Even the term is a mouthful.
We often shorten the diagnosis to its initials—PTSD—but even that linguistic short-cut doesn’t take away from the fact that this is a deceptively complicated syndrome.
What Is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
Sometimes really horrible things happen. Automobiles crash. Assaults, robberies, fires, natural disasters, terrorism—these are all products of our world that we hope to never have to face. Still, no one is immune; adults, children and adolescents endure horrors every day.
How To Talk With Kids After Bombing At Ariana Grande Concert
In the wake of the concert bombing in Manchester, On Point guest host Jessica Yellin spoke with global terrorism expert Bruce Hoffman of Georgetown University, and Dr. Ellen Braaten, a child psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and associate director of the Clay Center for Young Healthy Minds.
Dr.
Bad Things Happen
Bad things happen, and that’s a fundamental fact of life on this planet.
It’s not like we didn’t know this. Since things have been happening to humans, there’ve been bad things happening to humans, and we’ve had to help our children to deal with them.
Parents’ Untreated Mental Illnesses Affect Their Children
We wrote earlier this month about the growing acceptance of psychiatric illness among the general population. A number of studies demonstrate that more and more Americans are accepting psychiatric illnesses as equal to other illnesses, and therefore actively seeking treatment.
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