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Childhood Trauma & Suicide Webinar: Register Now

Childhood Trauma & Suicide Webinar: Register Now

Are you a teacher, school counselor, therapist, or parent interested in learning more about childhood suicide and its connection to trauma? Tune in with me, June 15th and June 22nd, as I discuss this insidious phenomenon among 7 to 12 year old youths and its 

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4 Reasons Kids Enter Gangs & How To Help

4 Reasons Kids Enter Gangs & How To Help

 01. Spiritual factors/confusion/disengagement  Kids who lack a spiritual connection to their communities, their families, their peers, themselves, and a power stronger than themselves (i.e., God) are often in desperate search for meaning. Meaning that offers an identity, offers hope, and offers direction. A spiritual connection 

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3 Ways Adults Maintain Oppositional Defiant Behavior

3 Ways Adults Maintain Oppositional Defiant Behavior

  Oppositional Defiant Disorder seems to be one of the most challenging behavioral health problems for parents today. Why? Because so many of our youths today are not only more mature than generations before them, but are also quite capable of evading adults using social media. While 

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Be A Kid’s Hero Podcast: Trauma and Family

Be A Kid’s Hero Podcast: Trauma and Family

#3: Therapy Basics for Children and Families of Trauma with Támara Hill, MS, LPC Released on February 22, 2016Duration: 00:24:46 Trauma isn’t just living through a ‘bad’ experience… it’s an experience for which one is unprepared that outweighs our coping skills. Therapist and author TÁMARA 

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4 Reasons Why Teenagers Hate Therapy

4 Reasons Why Teenagers Hate Therapy

Did you attend therapy as a teen? Is your teen in therapy? If so, I’m sure the experience was not a happy one. For many teenagers, therapy is, in their word, “stupid” or “weird” and many would rather take death than to sit in an 

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4 Treatments For Children With Sexually Inappropriate Behaviors

4 Treatments For Children With Sexually Inappropriate Behaviors

  It’s important that families understand the emotional and psychological implications of sexually inappropriate behaviors with kids and teens. Some kids and teens could be acting out what they have witnessed in their own homes – on TV, online, or with their parents or guardians. Other 

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