All posts tagged "Mental Health"

Low-Income Families and the Cost of Child Care: State Child Care Subsidies, Out-of-Pocket Expenses and the Cliff Effect

In This Together: The Hidden Cost of Young Adult Unemployment

Why Teens Commit Suicide: And What Can Be Done to Prevent It?

By the time Cheryl Sharp was 18 years old, she had attempted to end her own life on three separate occasions. Her...

What to do if you think a child is considering suicide

Dr. Matthew Wintersteen, director of research at the Thomas Jefferson University Medical College’s Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, spent five years...

Eating Disorders: More Than Meets The Eye

The last time I went to rehab, I had no hope,” admits 24-year-old Kaylee Vanderhoof, regrettably. “I did not care if I...

Getting at the Roots of Trauma

  When violence and mental illness stem from adverse childhood experiences. Eddie Bocanegra grew up in Chicago’s mostly Mexican-American Pilsen neighborhood in...

Self-Harm: Identifying and Supporting Teens Who Intentionally Hurt Themselves

For some students, stresses in their lives can lead to dangerous behavior, such as intentional self-injuries Juliana Kerrest started hurting herself when...

State Program Gets Mental Health Services to Kids Who Need it Most

From the The Indianapolis Star More than 100 Indiana children are receiving intensive mental health services under a new state program designed to...

The Comeback and Coming-from-Behind States: An Update on Youth Incarceration in the United States

Fathers’ Involvement With Their Children: United States, 2006–2010

Before Student Debt: The Story of a Student’s Struggle to Pay for College

Rakhi Agrawal, photo by Gwen McClure. NEW YORK — During her senior year at William H. Hall High School in West Hartford, Conn.,...

Whatever You Call It, Synthetic Pot is Poison

It goes by names like “Spice,” “K2,” “Black Magic,” “Demon,” “Blaze,” “Red X Dawn” and “Paradise.” But experts have another name for...

Sandy Hook One Year on, the Nation Struggles With the Stigma of Mental Illness

Photo by Robert Stolarik. NEWTOWN, Conn. — Sandy Hook Elementary School has been razed. The process of destroying the school — where...

Since Sandy Hook, Tracking Mental Health Changes Nationwide

NEWTOWN, Conn., — Nearly one year after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the town has struggled to reclaim its identity...

National Standards for the Care of Youth Charged with Status Offenses

Key Findings: Trends in the Parent-Report of Health Care Provider-Diagnosis and Medication Treatment for ADHD: United States, 2003 – 2011

The First Eight Years: Giving Kids a Foundation for Lifetime Success