Fighting to end mental health stigma has been a career goal for the last twenty years, so why does it feel bad as we progress? In 2020, 20.3% of adults sought professional mental health care rather than suffering in silence (Source). The progress in 2020 with adults seeking professional mental health support would feel much …
There’s an epidemic among teens and young adults, one that’s obvious in some respects and yet hiding in plain sight. It’s a phenomenon that’s easy to ignore, minimize or pretend isn’t happening, yet also so widespread and pervasive that it’s alarming. We’re referring to a dating relationship between young partners that morphs into a damaging …
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Many youth in foster care have experienced traumatic events in their lifetimes. In fact, it’s been cited that up to 80 percent of children in foster care have significant mental health issues, compared to about 18-22 percent of the general population. The American Academy of Pediatrics’ Healthy Foster Care America initiative identifies mental and behavioral health as the greatest unmet …
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