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Ask the Guidance Center Experts, Blank Slate Media, July 2021
In this monthly column, therapists from North Shore Child & Family Guidance Centeranswer your questions on issues related to parenting, mental health and children’s well-being. To submit a question, email communications@northshorechildguidance.org....
8-Year-Olds in Despair: The Mental Health Crisis Is Getting Younger, by Christina Caron
Published in the New York Times, June 28. 2021 When Marie, 11, called a suicide prevention hotline in October, nobody saw it coming. Not even Marie herself, who had been bottling up feelings of loneliness and sadness for months without telling anyone. Her...
Let Them Go, Let Them Grow: The Latina Girls Project, By Jenna Kern-Rugile
Published originally by Johns Hopkins University, Lifelines: Stories from the Human Safety Net, 2014 A team of bilingual, bicultural social workers try to help at-risk girls Five years ago, a 12-year-old Latina girl committed suicide in her family’s garage in the town...
Guidance Center Names New Executive Director/CEO
Kathy Rivera takes on leadership role at Long Island’s leading children’s mental health organization Roslyn Heights, NY, June 22, 2021 — North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center (the Guidance Center) is pleased to announce that today, June 22, 2021,...
Teen Depression During COVID-19 Pandemic: What to Look For, By Scripps Health
COVID fears and restrictions may be affecting teen mental health. Click here to visit Scripps.org to learn more. Teens face untold pressures even during the most ordinary times. COVID-19 has added new pressures and they have taken an emotional toll. Studies show COVID...
Why Teens Need a Break This Summer, by Lisa Damour, The New York Times, June 1, 2021
The pandemic has been the psychological workout of their lives. The next few months can be a time of recovery. In the more than two decades I’ve spent as a psychologist working with adolescents, I have never seen teenagers so worn down at the end of an academic year...
Teenagers Are Struggling, and It’s Not Just Lockdown
By Emily Esfahani Smith, Originally published in the New York Times, May 4,2021 When schools shut down last spring, Carson Roubison, a charter school student in Phoenix, was initially relieved. There were some difficulties in those early days at home — when...
Normal Tantrums or Something More?
Temper tantrums, “talking back” and other forms of acting out are a normal part of a child’s development. When a youngster is feeling, tired, stressed, upset or out of sorts for any reason, these behaviors aren’t uncommon. Ask any parent! But when a child’s words and...