As the loneliness crisis creeps through America’s youth, self-esteem is taking a major hit. Loneliness among young girls is heavily correlated with confidence going down, reveals the Girl Scouts of the USA’s survey with Wakefield Research. Is there a way to help? More from Rebecca Ruiz in Mashable: https://lnkd.in/dA4gqJha #mentalhealth #selfesteem #youth #research
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Family Relations National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) #fr_ncfr Stressed? You're not alone! See this new research on stress and support during the COVID-19 pandemic for parents! 💻 Full Article: The role of gender, stress, and social support in parents' pandemic well-being: A cross-national study ✅ Many families experienced increased stress during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, including stress related to parenting. But social support can help! ✅ Participants came from multiple countries across Europe: Norway, Sweden, Germany, and the United Kingdom in the fall of 2020. ✅ Fathers tended to report greater well-being than mothers did. ✅ Results suggest this was likely related to increased stress for mothers between balancing work and homeschooling their children. ✅ Emotional support could be linked to better well-being when experiencing stress during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic ✍ Find the full article here: https://lnkd.in/evJmMfxj #familyscience #research #families #parenting #stress #COVID19 #COVID #mothers #fathers #parents #socialsupport #couples #familystress #familysupport #familiesmatter #gender #stressrelief #europe #quantitativeresearch #mediation #mentalhealth #healthyrelationships #health #pandemic #familystudies #newresearch #couples #familyresearch #homeschool #worklifebalance
The role of gender, stress, and social support in parents' pandemic well‐being: A cross‐national study
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🚨 New Resources Alert! Publications, Funding and Upcoming Webinar #MHPSS, #Protection, #Health, #Climate, #Masculinities, #Gender 🧰 TOOLKIT: The new Mental Health and Psychosocial Support for #Marginalized and Underrepresented Groups Toolkit provides tailored guidance for working with indigenous peoples, LGBTQI+ individuals, persons with disabilities and victims of torture. (YouthPower/USAID) https://lnkd.in/eYExG2yp 🚦DO’S AND DONT’S FOR ENGAGING #Men & #Boys: Men and boys have their own distinct health needs and vulnerabilities, and engaging men can benefit everyone—including women and girls. Confronting inequalities that have created gender advantages, while addressing the health challenges and vulnerabilities men face, requires a careful balance. This guidance provides provide practical suggestions on how to do this. (USAID) https://lnkd.in/eJCifngJ 💡NEW EVIDENCE: Reducing Intimate Partner #Violence (IPV) and Violence Against Children (VAC): This new systematic review from Loraine J Bacchus and colleagues published in the The Lancet explores global interventions that prevent or respond to IPV and VAC by parents or caregivers and identifies common intervention components and mechanisms that lead to a reduction in IPV and VAC. https://lnkd.in/e56DwrGX 👉 UPCOMING WEBINAR - June 12th 14:00 to 15:30 (GMT) How do #parenting programmes help keep children safe? This seminar unpacks lessons learnt from parenting and caregiver interventions that have successfully reduced violence against children in lower-middle-income contexts. With Mike K. of World Vision, Isang Awah from the University of Oxford, Lauren Stephens of Save the Children UK and Ornella Barros of Arigatou International. https://lnkd.in/dmZi7sCS 📣 FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES: Deadline June 28, 2024 - Grants from lululemon for community-led organizations around the world that actively remove barriers to physical, mental and social well-being in their communities and serve those most impacted by systemic inequities. https://lnkd.in/dFwtb-by Deadline June 30th, 2024 - (CBOs only) Grants from Foundation S to support #women and strengthen local resilience against the health impacts of #climate change in low-and-middle income countries. https://lnkd.in/eWAKYY8B Deadline July 9th - Grants from the Wellcome Trust for supplier teams to develop innovative lived experience collaborations in mental health research. https://lnkd.in/dTUkU_Zf
Mental Health and Psychosocial Support for Marginalized and Underrepresented Groups Toolkit
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More than 50% of teens with mental health needs do not access treatment, and access gaps are starkest for LGBTQ+ youths and youths of color. The shortage of therapists is so severe that it would be impossible to narrow the treatment access gap through expanding the workforce alone. Teens desperately need mental health supports that can meet them where they are — online — sooner than the mental health care landscape is able to change. New regulations to ensure social media’s safety for youth, while important steps, will do little to increase teens’ access to care. Policymakers and tech leaders must go a step further by actively embedding science-backed, scalable mental health supports, such as single-session interventions and peer support systems, where teens already seek help.
Banning teens from social media won't help their mental health. Here's what might
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🚸 It’s time to talk about a crucial but overlooked aspect of parenting — the “parenting gap”. 🌍 When parents with lower incomes are less able to spend time with their kids, it creates a gap that widens the socioeconomic divide. And the parenting gap is a global issue, affecting parents everywhere from Italy to China. 📚 In this year’s #EarlyChildhoodMatters, Fabrizio Zilibotti, economist and co-author of Love, Money & Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids, lays out the long-term detrimental effects of the parenting gap for both families and society. 🔗 Read Zilibotti’s interview in full with Tanmoy Goswami to dig deeper into the striking similarities in the parenting gap around the world and how we can tackle the effects of economic disparity: https://lnkd.in/esFm-QSw #ECM2023 #EarlyChildhoodMatters #EarlyYears #ChildDevelopment #ECD #PeopleBeforeParents Leontien Peeters, Josien Schrijnemakers, Myrthe Egmond, Irina Ivan-van der Kwaak, Jonathan F.P. Rose, PATRIZIA SE, Inter-American Development Bank, Chian Gong, Nanno Kleiterp
“Growing inequality is worsening the parenting gap”
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A State Legislator’s Choice: Time to Prioritize Youth Mental Health It is time to speak up about an alarming national trend: states, including Ohio, are increasingly focused on politically charged issues, such as curtailing transgender rights, while massive youth mental health system failures go completely unaddressed. Ohio's recent decision to ban gender-affirming care is not an isolated case. It exemplifies a broader shift where legislative efforts are focused on highly charged policies that both harm the populations being targeted and fail to address cataclysmic system failures. This has only fueled the most significant youth mental health crisis in history and allowed it to continue to rage like a fire burning out of control. The facts are bleak: · Across the nation, suicide rates among young people are alarmingly high, and is the second leading cause of death for people 10-14 years old beginning in 2021. · Many states are grappling with rising mental health issues among youth, with inadequate support systems. · In Ohio alone, over 100,000 young people recently lost Medicaid coverage due to administrative oversights, leaving them without essential mental health care. The national stats are stunning: more than 3 million eligible youth were incorrectly dropped from Medicaid coverage only to struggle to regain coverage. The specific needs of transgender youth are important, and the current legislative focus on regulating the care sought by these youth widens the growing gap of those with pressing needs for mental health care and a system that effectively responds. Governor DeWine of Ohio has shown commendable initiative in tackling the youth mental health crisis. However, the state legislature’s focus contrasts sharply with the broader needs of Ohio’s youth, mirroring a national issue. I am proud that at Speak Our Minds, we refuse to support harmful policies that only further detract precious time, energy and resources from system building work required to end this youth mental health crisis. We call upon state legislators across the country to engage in the work required to build a working system of youth mental health. Political focus should: address coverage issues; increase access care; support mental health providers; give tools to parent caregivers; and increase effective evidence based approaches to prevention. At @SpeakOurMinds, we are ready to work alongside policymakers to create solutions that address the mental health needs of every child. Providers deserve a system that enables them to provide meaningful care. Parents deserve a system that support their kids and young people deserve a system that responds to their needs. What #nationaltrends are you seeing in your state? What do you want your legislators to prioritize? Speak up in the comments below. #mentalhealthawareness #YouthRights #HealthCare #StateLegislature #SpeakOurMinds #ChildrensHealthPolicy
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We have some complex social inequalities to tackle and there are many opportunities for organisations to proactively address some of these. These differential outcomes are not isolated to education, income and employment but to health and life expectancy too. Our systems need to work better together to tackle social and health inequalities because we all play a part in these outcomes, directly or indirectly. I would love to hear your thoughts on how we can turn this around.
Our State of the Nation: People and Places report shows that people with a disability tend to do significantly worse across outcomes including housing, income, education and occupation. In some cases, the gap is even wider among those from a lower working-class background, suggesting that professional families are better able to mitigate the effects of disability on life chances. Read our report to find out more information: https://lnkd.in/eCimkUEt #Socialmobility
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The escalating prevalence of personality disorders and the increasing number of alienated children underscore the urgency of addressing children's mental health. Perhaps with additional services made available in schools, there might be a 'safe haven' for children to discuss mental health issues or familial problems. While some severely alienated children might not immediately seek counselling, others might have questions and doubts about their situations. A programme of 'parental alienation' awareness within the school environment on neutral ground, away from the conflicts between parents, might create opportunities for alienated children to connect and share their stories. They feel as isolated as the 'target' parents, after all. A great deal of money has been invested in today's schools to actively implement programmes to promote inclusivity. I don’t have rose-tinted glasses on about the past, it wasn't all good, but often, I feel nostalgic for the idyllic innocence portrayed in books such as Arthur Ransome's ‘Swallows and Amazons.’ The children in these stories ran free and had wonderful, carefree adventures, and when the summer holidays were over, they didn’t return to schools exposing them to explicit sexual content and promoting rainbow gender identities. I'm uneasy as to whether this education is being fostered or enforced, and for me, this has worrying parallels with the kind of indoctrination that an alienating parent inflicts, psychologically abusively, on their child. Similarly, are young minds being exposed to an experience/material they can struggle emotionally and cognitively to process? There’s also a debate about whether removing children from parents perceived as unsupportive of LGBT identities is in their best interests. There's a huge push to teach children non-binary pronouns and diverse gender identities because everyone deserves respect and to be themselves, but I do mourn the loss of innocence. I hope that a deeper understanding of these complex issues will emerge, along with opportunities to support all children, including those facing alienation. I’ve long believed schools could play a pivotal role by promoting open collaboration among parents, policymakers, mental health professionals, and educators. With extra funding (or money better prioritised for good rather than profit), schools could ensure that, if there’s any agenda going on, children's mental health and well-being are at the forefront. https://lnkd.in/eZKN3nZ3 #parentalalienationischildabuse #highconflictdivorce #narcissisticabusesurvivor #divorcinganarcissist #consciousparent #consciousparenting #childrenfirst #parentalalienation #stopparentalalienation #fathersrights #fathersrightsmovement #mothersrights #coparentingwithanarcissist #narcissisticabuse #positivementalhealth #parentalalienationawareness #traumabonding #endparentalalienation #alienatedparent #emotionalabuse #generationaltrauma #mentalhealth #charliemccready #9stepprogram
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Happy Neurodiversity Celebration Week! This special time is dedicated to challenging stereotypes and misconceptions about neurodivergent individuals. It's an opportunity to recognize and appreciate the unique advantages of being neurodivergent and to focus on acceptance, equality, and inclusion. It's important to note that the emphasis on kids being passively affected by media doesn't account for how neurodivergent teens engage with media to understand, experience, express, and manage their emotions. It's crucial to recognize that media can serve a positive and useful purpose in the lives of neurodivergent youth. #teenmentalhealth #NeurodiversityWeek #mentalhealth #BeMeApp #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek #NCW #WithTeensInMind
Prioritize Autistic Youth Mental Health Without Panicking Over Technology
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Supporting Trans and Non-Binary Children: Essential Training for Mental Health and Safeguarding Anyone working with trans and non-binary children knows the challenges they face: severe anxiety, depression, self-harm, and suicidal ideation. The mental health decline in these young individuals is alarming and requires urgent attention. There has never been a more crucial time to understand the safeguarding needs of trans and non-binary youth. To truly grasp the importance of this issue, you need a comprehensive understanding of trans issues and how to support those with gender incongruence effectively. Contact me for more information on how my training can make a difference in your organization. Equip your staff with the knowledge and skills they need to support and protect trans and non-binary children. Together, we can create a safer, more inclusive environment for all.
Attempt to cover up "explosion" of trans youth suicides on NHS waiting lists
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Yet there are pretty much ZERO disability targeted opportunities for scholarships/research/career development in Higher Education and Research sectors.
Our State of the Nation: People and Places report shows that people with a disability tend to do significantly worse across outcomes including housing, income, education and occupation. In some cases, the gap is even wider among those from a lower working-class background, suggesting that professional families are better able to mitigate the effects of disability on life chances. Read our report to find out more information: https://lnkd.in/eCimkUEt #Socialmobility
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2moThis is easy. Have them go out and play vs giving them devices to grow up with. Human to human interaction creates long lasting memories that prevent loneliness. Video games and videos do not do this.