A mental health advocate can be anyone who helps people struggling with mental health issues. It could be a professional, like a counselor or a psychiatrist. It could also be
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If your teenager has experienced a loss, you might not know exactly how to help him or her come to terms with it. You already know that everyone experiences grief
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When teens are bullied, rejected by peers, or experience a breakup, their emotional and psychological health can suffer. Imagine having to go to school and face peers, who once were
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If you think that you have a physical health condition, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, or an ear infection, your doctor will run some type of assessment (a blood
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Depression: It’s a disease that is every bit as real as diabetes or strep throat, but it’s often brushed aside or stigmatized. As the parent of a teen with depression,
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Empathy is a social skill that begins at birth. Children learn about themselves through the relationships they have with others. Both positive and negative interactions with their environment, siblings, friends,
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During your child’s elementary school years, it might have been normal for him or her to try to get out of school. Conversely, school might have been the best part
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As a parent, you are used to helping your child. When he or she was little, you had to do everything for them. Now that they’re a teenager, though, it
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Many parents teach their teens how to be good people, including how to be kind and compassionate to others. However, research shows that those teens who practice kindness also experience
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Panic attacks, sometimes called anxiety attacks, bring many people to doctors’ offices and emergency rooms. With 6 million Americans suffering from panic disorder (as part of 40 million dealing with
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