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Is My Child Too Young for Counseling?
By Peggy A. Hemmer, MSW, LISW-S, Heart and Soul CounselingSee all articles by Peggy Hemmer, MSW, LISW-S Average: Your rating: None “Is My Child Too Young for Counseling”? Children, like any of us, have troubles and worries. Sometimes their troubles and worries are bigger than they know how to express or manage. A child may...
Your Expectations Make a Difference
Average: Your rating: None Average: 1.6 (5 votes) Adolescence marks the pathway between childhood and young adulthood. Our world has changed so much since you, who are now parents, grew up. What you may think of as the typical behavior of your own junior and senior high school years now frequentlytakes place in middle school....
Are You A Wimpy Parent?
Good parents do not want their children to feel bad, experience sadness or emotional grief. To do so often causes the parent to feel bad, experience sadness and cause emotional grief. So, how can good parents set limits, discipline and establish family rules without causing pain and suffering? How can we be a good parent...
Parenting Tips For Building Character In Children
Raising children to develop strong character is an important part of parenting. Character building teaches children how to develop a moral and civic responsibility that leads to a stable social-emotional and acceptable human-being. Below are ten steps that parents need to consider while building character in children. 10 Steps to Raising Character Driven Child 1. Make Parenting Your First Priority Parents...
Treatment For Eating Disorders
According to the Alliance for Eating Disorder Awareness, over 50,000 individual will die from and eating disorder. Eating Disorders, the Journal of Treatment and Prevention poses that as many as 80 percent of all women exhibit some signs of an eating disorder at some stage in their life. An estimated 19 to 30 percent of...
Mental Health In Children
How children think, feel, and act in order to face the situation in a child’s life is mental health. It is how children look at themselves, their lives, and the people they care about. It helps them determine how to handle stress, social challenges, evaluate options, and solve problems. Like physical health, mental health is...
Can Too Much TV Cause Teen Depression?
Researchers from the University of Pittsburg assessed the risk of depression among a sample of 4,142 middle and high school students and found that too much television or on computer games may seriously affect teens’ mental health. Dr. Brian A. Primack, M.D., of the University of Pittsburgh, and colleagues reported their findings in the February...
Parenting Adolescents
Parenting Adolescents The term adolescence comes from the Latin word meaning “to grow.” So, are you ready to be an adolescent parent; or, a parent ready to grow? The period of adolescence is a transitional stage of physical and mental change in a young person life. Puberty traditionally occurs during the onset of adolescence. Young...
Group Counseling With Children
Group counseling is a form of therapy that brings individuals together that have a common problem, issue or concern. Adolescents who have a difficult time managing the their emotions, such as anger, are often put together in a group setting to help change this behavior. Group Themes: Other themes for group counseling may include, but not limited...
The High Cost Of Underage Drinking: What Parents Can Do
According to the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, underage drinking cost the taxpayers of The United States over $60 billion a year. These costs include medical care, work loss, and pain and suffering resulting from the use of alcohol by youth. This translates to a cost of $2,094 per year for each youth in the U.S. How Should...
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