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Understanding Your Child’s Learning Challenges
When tutoring isn’t helping, a professional assessment may offer insight into a child’s learning challenges. This blog explains how evaluators determine the appropriate testing, how parents can discuss concerns with teachers, and how assessment results can guide classroom accommodations and support at home.
A Back-to-School Mental Health Toolkit
The transition back to school can bring excitement, uncertainty, and stress for children and their families. A back-to-school mental health toolkit does not need to be complicated. A few simple routines can help children regulate anxious feelings, talk more openly about their experiences, and move through school mornings with greater calm and confidence.
Teen Girls and Mental Health
A CDC report shows that US teen girls are experiencing record levels of sadness and violence. Data released Monday shows three in five or over 57% of teen girls felt sad or hopeless in 2021. That's two times more than teen boys and the highest level reported over the past decade. The report also shows increased sexual violence and suicide risk among teen girls.
Do feelings of depression, helplessness, or anxiety have you off balance?
Stress related to life changes can affect all of us. A career setback, relationship difficulties, a breakup, separation or divorce, relocation, the passing of a loved one, the birth of a child, children leaving home, aging parents, aging pets, and our own health concerns can affect each of us differently. If stress, feelings of sadness or depression, helplessness, worries or anxiety, or other issues are interfering with your ability to function well at home, at work, or in your community, counseling can help.
Concerned about your child’s behavior at school, at home, in your community?
Our lives revolve around our children. We worry about them every day. We work hard to provide them a comfortable, safe haven. Despite our best efforts, we sometimes need help. If you’re concerned about your child’s behavior including episodes of excessive sadness, anxiety, anger or acting out, counseling is a good option. Neuropsychological and psychological testing can also help determine and manage any learning and/or attention problems.
Need help sorting through relationships and conflicts that challenge your family?
Family relationships are an important factor in mental health. Very little happens out of context or randomly. Many relationship and individual problems can occur because of family dynamics. Family counseling examines and sorts through the relationships, conflicts, and behaviors that are at the center of challenging family interactions. Working with a family’s patterns and behaviors can help reduce problems and improve interactions facing individual family members.