5 Solid Steps Parents Can Take to Protect Their Teen’s Mental Health
As parents, we know how to protect our kids from getting sick (most of the time): wash their hands, eat nutritious food, and get good rest. Simple. But what can we do to protect our kids’ mental health, so they can tolerate stress and strain, enjoy life, and form healthy relationships? Physical health and mental health…
Read MoreThe Connection Between Depression and a Messy Room
Lots of kids have messy rooms. They’re typically too busy focusing on other activities to be bothered to tidy up very often. But, disorganization and a messy room can be a sign of depression, and clutter can also cause stress and anxiety in teens. It can start in small ways. Usually, people have their routines, and…
Read MoreJuneteenth: A Historic, Vital Celebration
Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. Now, it officially is a federally recognized holiday, observed every year on June 19th. This date is significant because in Galveston, Texas in 1865, General Gordan Granger of the Union Army read the following: “The people of Texas are…
Read MoreShould You Punish Your Child?
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, the way you respond to your child’s behavior can have a lasting effect, shaping how the child thinks, acts, feels, and engages with others long into adulthood. Therefore, it’s imperative that you develop effective strategies to address behaviors and teach them to control their reactions to avoid harm or…
Read MoreHow to Be More Accepting with Your LGBTQIA+ Teen
Sometimes, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQIA+) youth face a unique set of challenges. Recent data demonstrate the breadth and depth of the issues these dynamic young people often face. According to The Trevor Project’s National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health 2021, in the past two weeks, 72 percent of LGBTQ youth reported…
Read MoreStart Here: A Beginner’s Guide to Common Teen Mental Health Issues
If you’re a parent with a teen, you’ve probably wondered about their mental health from time to time. Are they doing ok? Happy enough? On social media too much? Too stressed? These are the kinds of questions keeping parents around the world up at night. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), an estimated 10 to 20 percent…
Read MoreHow Can I Help My Friends and Family Who are Fostering?
Foster care is an issue that is dear to us at Embark Behavioral Health because many of our clients have gone through foster care and adoption experiences. We work hard to help them navigate the emotions, the trauma, and the complicated relationships that these experiences bring into their lives. There are over 430,000 children in foster care,…
Read MoreThe Importance of Mental Health for Young People
This past year, our collective mental health took on a whole new set of challenges. In just a few short days, the institutions that gave our days structure shut down. The pandemic changed the way we all interacted with each other, and it had a profound effect on our mental health. So, now is an…
Read MoreDid the Pandemic Increase Loneliness in Teenage Girls?
Protecting your family from COVID-19 is important, but the pandemic has also created a mental health epidemic. It’s hitting our teens hard, and it’s hitting the girls the hardest. In fact, new research from The Rox Institute for Research and Training released a report on how pandemic loneliness is affecting 5th through 12th grade girls and found: Girls are experiencing newfound fear about their futures since the…
Read MoreHow Much Stress is Too Much? A Caregiver’s Guide
As a parent, you may be wondering how to help your child manage their stress better and improve their mental health. After all, we live in some of the most stressful times in human history. Even putting aside the global pandemic, rising anxiety rates in children have been reported for decades. But we want to make something very…
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