Mental Health
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The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic On Mental Health Care: A Psychologist’s Perspective
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By Pamela A. McCaskill, Ph.D., LP Have you ever wondered what this past year has been like from a psychologist’s perspective? People often ask me, how are you doing in the midst of all this chaos? To put it mildly, the past 14 months have been a whirlwind for myself and our team Meet Our Team.…
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Social Media Checklist For Mental Health
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By: Jaclyn Rink, MSCP, LLP Follow someone who debunks “influencers” and how they take photos Follow someone who promotes good news happening in the world (e.g., acts of kindness etc.) Follow someone who promotes “real” bodies Follow a few healthy recipe/cooking pages Follow a page of something creative you like to do in your free…
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5 Tips for Managing Screen Time
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By: Pamela A. McCaskill, Ph.D. One of the most common questions parents are asking me these days is, “How do I limit my child’s use of technology and screen-time when it seems to be so much a part of their daily learning, socialization, and relaxation?” Here are my top 5 suggestions: 1. Have a…
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Don’t Judge Your Judgement: How to Practice Mindfulness During a Global Pandemic
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By: Nicole Wozniak, Psy.D., LP. What do you get when you add one part global pandemic, one part virtual schooling, and one part uncertainty about the future? The answer is the perfect recipe for anxiety. At some point this year, you have probably found yourself asking one of the following questions: What’s going to happen tomorrow? …
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Top Ten Stress Management Tips For Teachers
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By: Dr. Nicole Wozniak, PsyD. It used to be that every year, August to June, people knew what to expect. In August, parents took their children shopping for new school supplies, while teachers began organizing classrooms and lesson planning. Fresh faced students showed up to class on the first day of school ready to tackle a…
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Cultivating Mindfulness during Covid-19
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Covid-19 has created unprecedented stress for all of us. Balancing new work and school demands during the pandemic has been uniquely challenging. Luckily, mindfulness-based techniques can help you find your center and calm in the storm of stress and anxiety. What is mindfulness? Mindfulness practice is based on Rooted in Eastern religion but does…
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Making Meaning Out of a Crisis: What COVID-19 Has Taught Me.. Part One
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By: Jaclyn Rink, MSCP, LLP. The last few weeks have been a whirlwind for our world. There has been so much movement. We panicked a bit.. (ok, maybe a lot), we stocked up on Kraft Mac N’ Cheese, shut-down our schools, brought our work computers home, and paid $20.00 for a mini hand-sanitizer on Amazon. We…
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Overwhelmed by Your Teenager? Welcome the Club: Top Tips for Parents with Struggling Teens
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By Jaclyn Rink, MS It took me many weeks of merely thinking about this blog post before I actually sat down to write it. Simply, because it felt overwhelming. What in the world would I write about trying to compose a blog post for parents who are struggling with their teenagers? There are a…
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Let’s Care about Self-Care
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By Truc Nguyen Taking care of yourself first and making your mental and physical well-being a priority sounds easy enough, right? However, as easy as it sounds, it can also sound kind of selfish at times. Well, I’m here to help explain why self-care doesn’t belong on the backburner, and no one should feel guilty about…
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Habits: Making Changes that Last a Lifetime
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By Dr. Fred Upton, Ph.D. I am a person who always wants to have more data. I love step-trackers, heart rate monitors, spreadsheets, and functional analyses of behavior. If I can graph a behavior, I feel like I can control it. This is not usually the case. Tracking a behavior doesn’t always seem to result…
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