Child and Youth Mental Health
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Social-Emotional Pandemic Risks To Your Child — and Solutions by Age
I am resharing an article from a parenting blog that I follow. This article is taken from Aha! Parenting a parent community created and supported by Dr. Laura Markham. The article is linked in full above, but I have pulled the sections that apply to our Elementary age students: Social-Emotional Pandemic Risks To Your Child — and Solutions by Age Thursday, October 29, 2020 “Dr. Laura….I’m worried that… “My extraverted four year old never sees anyone but me and his little sister, and is getting more and more difficult.” “My eight year old hates zoom school and now says he hates math and reading.” “My twelve year spends all his…
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Anxiety as Anger
There are a lot of studies that connect anxiety and depression, but there are more and more eyes turning towards the relationship between anger and anxiety. Bernard Golden summarizes Anger and Anxiety below: While anger and anxiety are two distinct emotions, like all emotions they provide us with information about ourselves—if only we can take time to listen to them. And, while distinct, they can interact in a variety of ways that may exacerbate anxiety, anger, or both: Anger is an emotion characterized by antagonism toward someone or something we perceive as responsible for our suffering. It is most often past-oriented—about something that we believe “should” have happened or something…