Remove Anxiety Remove Empathy Remove Engagement Remove Psychiatric
article thumbnail

5 Reasons Children Bully and How Parents Can Help

KVC

Both children who bully and targets of bullying are at a greater risk for mental and behavioral health issues, including anxiety, depression, substance abuse, sleep difficulties, lower academic achievement and dropping out of school. Words can hurt. Why Do Kids Bully? . The reasons children bully can be difficult to pinpoint.

Self-harm 105
article thumbnail

How to Create a Disaster Behavioral Health Plan

Relias

These can include anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and more. In fact, 15% of individuals who have lived through a natural disaster are diagnosed with depression or anxiety. Engage in partnerships. This group also experiences an increased risk of injury and exposure to harmful or hazardous materials.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Why Did It Take Me So Long To Accept My Mental Health Medication?

Beautiful Voyager

Even though I chose to engage in these projects, they fueled me with a mix of excitement, joy, stress and increased anxiety. The fear of no longer feeling like myself Change in personality is a very common fear of people hesitating to get on a psychiatric medication. Leading me to feeling depressed, tired and sad.

article thumbnail

Costume, Cosplay and Dressing Up: Fashion and Mental Health

MQ Mental Health

Just like an inmate in a prison, those who experience inpatient psychiatric care also might experience a costume of sorts. Research shows there’s a lot of identity exploration, empathy and self-acceptance that can come through the potential of using costume. And difference can be transformative.

article thumbnail

Being a Black Clinician During Dual Pandemics: A Trainee Perspective

Society of Clinical Psychology

Negative mental health implications of living throughout the COVID-19 pandemic include higher susceptibility for triggered states of depression, anxiety, and panic attacks among those with a history of mental illness (Tsamakis et al., 2020), along with isolation, loneliness, anxiety, and potential grief from losing a loved one (Choi et al.,

Clinic 52
article thumbnail

Why Is It So Hard To Ask For Help When Facing Psychological Distress?

Beautiful Voyager

Women predominate in the rates of common conditions such as anxiety and depression ( twice as much and more persistent than men ). The only two occasions I went to the hospital for my mental health challenges were 1) generalized anxiety with panic disorder and 2) severe depression with psychotic events and suicide attempt.

article thumbnail

Why Assess?

The Critical Blog

I have seen this in practice: when social workers adopt a ‘power over’ working style, they can act protectively when the situation requires it, but can easily slip into an oppressive mode of practice if, for example, they become exasperated with a service user and lose empathy with them. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.