by lahsan | Oct 17, 2022 | Blog, Preventing Suicide
What is Mental Health Screening? A mental health screening is an exam of your emotional health. It helps find out if you have a mental disorder. Mental illnesses are more common than people think! They affect more than half of all Americans at some point in their...
by lahsan | Apr 25, 2022 | Blog, Stress & Anxiety
Test anxiety can be detrimental to our grades, measure of success in school, and our stress levels. If you notice the symptoms early on, however, you can stop test anxiety in its tracks and get back to your normal self. It’s test day. You’ve been up all night...
by ekallen | Apr 21, 2022 | Letter From Elliot
It absolutely feels terrific that the weather has turned nice, we aren’t wearing masks (for the most part), and we are planning our summer vacations. However, for your teen, they are coming to the end of this school year. That means taking tests that can create...
by ekallen | Feb 17, 2022 | Letter From Elliot
It’s February, and this means Valentine’s Day has come and gone. For adults, it’s the month of love, Hallmark, dinner out on the 14th, a bottle of wine or champagne, and perhaps a piece of jewelry. For teens, however, it may be the month that temperatures are a bit...
by lahsan | Sep 23, 2021 | Letter From Elliot
Yes, the CDC saw a 51 percent increase in suicide attempts by adolescent girls during the pandemic. Yes, emergency department mental health visits were up 31 percent among adolescents during the same period, driven by higher incidents of crises among young...