Posts Tagged ‘mental health awareness month’
Helping Your Child’s Social Anxiety with Role Play
Today we continue our Mental Health Awareness Month series by talking about a common anxiety disorder in children. Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) affects between 7% and 12% of the U.S. population. Increasingly, it’s impacting young people. Global research has found that nearly 1 in 3 respondents aged 16–29 years meet the threshold criteria for SAD. …
Read MoreArts, Crafts, and Mental Health
“Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life.” Pablo Picasso Childhood mental health outcomes have been a concern of experts for several years now. The C.D.C. estimates that one in six children between the ages of two and eight has a mental or behavioral disorder. Mental health rates are even worse for pre-teens and…
Read MoreHow Positive Representation Improves Mental Health
Hooray — May is Mental Health Awareness Month! This month, we are running a series on how different types of toys can help improve children’s mental health outcomes. Today’s blog will examine one factor of mental health impact: positive representation in a child’s toys. By positive representation, we mean toys, games, and books depicting…
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