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COVID and Staying Connected

posted on 4/5/2021 3:49:00 PM
COVID and Staying Connected
COVID has been hard on people in so many ways: loss of loved ones, loss of employment, loss of housing, etc. Less dramatic, but still stressful has been loss of socialization. The lack of connecting with others has caused an increase in depression symptoms.
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How Can I Help My Friend Who is Depressed?

posted on 7/18/2019 2:33:00 PM
How Can I Help My Friend Who is Depressed?
Helping a friend who is feeling depressed is not easy. You may feel confused, scared, angry, and worried. With that being said, here are some tips to help you show support while still taking care of yourself. Read more to learn about how you can help out a friend if you suspect they are depressed.
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How An Overbearing Parent Can Aid In Addiction

posted on 3/1/2017 2:19:00 PM
How An Overbearing Parent Can Aid In Addiction
The helicopter parent has become a common joke, yet this type of parenting style is anything but funny. While overbearing parents believe that they are doing the best for their child, they create situations that can lead to serious problems such as addiction later on.
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Positive Parenting Prevents Drug Abuse

posted on 3/2/2015 12:56:00 PM
The National Institute on Drug Abuse has a great resource for families. It's called Family Check UP and addresses the 5 following topics, providing resources for how to talk with your family about each:  Communication Encouragement Negotiation Setting Limits SupervisionFrom NIDA's website: "These five questions, developed by the Child and Family Center at the University of Oregon, highlight parenting skills that are important in preventing the initiation and progressi...
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Teens Watch on YouTube Other Teens Drinking

posted on 2/23/2015 1:02:00 PM
In the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, a study was done of videos on YouTube of teens' drinking behavior. The following is quoted from the abstract: Results: There were a total of 333,246,875 views for all videos combined. While 89% of videos involved males, only 49% involved females. The videos had a median of 1,646 (interquartile range [IQR] 300 to 22,969) “like” designations and 33 (IQR 14 to 1,261) “dislike” designations each...
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Helping family members understand depression

posted on 12/31/2014 1:08:00 PM
Talking with people about your depression symptoms can be very difficult, especially if those people haven't ever had symptoms of their own. A young woman, Allie Brosh, started writing about her experience on her blog, Hyperbole and a Half. She actually started her blog way back in 2009. But, in October 2011 she started talking about depression, and then did a second entry in May 2013. She is a tremendous artist and you can listen to a great interview with her h...
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Great Questions for Improving Communication with Your Children

posted on 9/8/2014 2:14:00 PM
The school year is in full swing. Perhaps like many parents, your afternoons and evenings are busy getting kids to sports, music lessons, dance practices, etc. We want to reconnect with our kids and start with "How was your day?". Sometimes the answer is a simple 'fine'. But that isn't much of a conversation. When my kids were younger, and more willing to share all, we would discuss the 3 worst and 3 best parts about their day. That helped us have a dialogue, and that ...
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Underage Drinking Resources

posted on 9/1/2014 2:14:00 PM
It's hard to talk with kids about hard topics--that's why they're hard! SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) has some videos on YouTube to help parents learn how to start these hard conversations. The campaign is called "Talk. They Hear You." Hope you find them helpful. 
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New Study on Who Is Likely To Binge Drink

posted on 7/3/2014 2:18:00 PM
In Nature this week there is a new study predicting who is likely to binge drink. This study looked at brains of 700 teens throughout Europe. Several factors were present, but a big one seemed to be personality. Thrill-seekers and those who were less conscientious were at greater risk. However, brain structure showed a relationship, as well. Here's a quote from NPR which paraphrases the study: Among binge drinkers, the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, which plays a ro...
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The "cool kids" seem to struggle more with substance abuse

posted on 6/26/2014 2:20:00 PM
According to new research, kids in early adolescence who try to act cool are more likely to have problems with drugs and alcohol, and have trouble managing friendships as they grow older. And, their popularity tends to fade by the time they're 22.  This comes from anarticle at NPR.org.  These kids had a 45% higher rate of problems related to drug and alcohol use. The article attributes this to the assumption that perhaps these kids felt the need to do increasingly extreme thin...
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