by Kristi Pikiewicz | Jan 4, 2022 | Education/Parenting, Mental Health
I’m a school psychologist and member of a school administrative team in Boulder, Colorado. Coming back from this year’s Winter break, we expected to be dealing with the omicron surge — we wondered whether we would have enough faculty to manage...
by Kristi Pikiewicz | Dec 15, 2021 | Education/Parenting, Mental Health
While older adults bear the brunt of the pandemic’s health effects, young people are shouldering the bulk of COVID’s mental and emotional health burden. UNICEF reports 27% anxiety and 15% depression in young people ages 10-19 and also highlights the fact...
by Garth Sundem | Dec 8, 2021 | Digging Deep Project, Mental Health, Self Help, Social-Emotional Learning
This week, the U.S. Surgeon General warned of a youth mental health crisis, writing, “The coronavirus pandemic intensified a rise in adolescent depression, anxiety and mental health distress.” Working to improve mental health requires looking inward to...
by Garth Sundem | Nov 3, 2021 | Education/Parenting, Mental Health, Self Help
It’s that time of year again, when ghosts give way to turkeys and then immediately to holiday lights. Once you step aboard the holiday bus, there’s no getting off ’till the ball drops. Through one lens, it’s a beautiful time of year filled with...
by Kristi Pikiewicz | Oct 13, 2021 | Digging Deep Project, Mental Health, Self Help, Social-Emotional Learning
“Hey Siri, I am angry. Really angry. Can you help?” When you ask an iPhone this question, as one participant in this research study did, the avatar, Siri, returns the advice, “I’m sorry you are going through this. Take a break and find something that makes you...
by Kevyn Eva Norton | Oct 6, 2021 | Digging Deep Project, Mental Health
Our free mobile self-help app, Shadow’s Edge, has now received over 31,000 journal entries from young adults seeking to explore challenges and difficult experiences as a way to build resilience. A few months ago, we took all these journal entries and put them in...
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