Youth Psychology

Are you ready to increase learning opportunities, reduce negative behaviors, and improve staff and student morale? Then it's time to become a brain builder! We all are aware of an alarming increase in reported behavioral disruptions in school settings. Often less understood is the critical role that the brain plays in shaping all behavior, including the challenges we face in our classrooms and beyond.

Jonathan Haidt has spent his career speaking wisdom and truth in some of the most the most difficult spaces - communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the perfect storm contributing to a public health emergency for teenagers today. In The Anxious Generation, Haidt argues that for the cohort that hit puberty around 2009, their sense of self developed as the threads of three dramatic technological and social changes emerged.

Is it possible to stop yourself from aging? Growing old is inevitable. That’s what the residents of Orchid Lake Village, an assisted living facility, believe until Evergreen Life offers a unique proposition. The pharmaceutical company has a new all natural, organic supplement that promises to reverse the signs of aging. Eloise isn’t as lithe as she used to be. Gladys can’t remember the plot of her favorite TV show. Murray feels like the light inside of him has been blown out. After just a few weeks on the vitamin, they start to feel the effects. Laurel’s once-translucent hair has a ...

Through stories of survival, resilience, and even rebellion, Mueller and Abrutyn show how social environments can cause suicide and how they can be changed to help kids discover a life worth living. By revealing what it is like to live and die in one community, Life under Pressure offers tangible solutions to one of the twenty-first century's most tragic public health problems.

This audiobook provides social workers, outreach clinicians, case managers, and concerned community members with a pretreatment guide for assisting homeless couples, youth, and single adults. Chapters explore policy and research accompanied by narratives that trace a person's journey from homelessness to housing and beyond. The interrelationship between Homeless Outreach and Housing First is examined in detail to inform program development and hands-on practice.

The number of children, youth, and families seeking help for a wide range of mental health concerns is growing at an alarming rate, and many struggle to thrive despite well-intentioned interventions from skilled helpers. Unplugging from technology and reconnecting with the web of life is a powerful antidote to the highly technological and fast-paced realities of so many.

Alarming statistics in recent years indicate that mental health problems like depression and anxiety have been skyrocketing among youth. To identify solutions, psychologist and professor Sarah Rose Cavanagh interviews a roster of experts across the country who are dedicating their lives to working with young people to help them actualize their goals, and highlights voices of college students from a range of diverse backgrounds.

Working with youth with sexual behavior problems can be a challenge for both law enforcement and mental health professionals. What defines good quality treatment has changed over time, and research has shown the importance of not only the treatment programs' content but also the way that content is delivered.

A strong memory and healthy brain aren't as difficult to maintain as one might think; combining the latest neuroscience research with age-old wisdom about resilience, mindfulness, and stress reduction, Drs. Henry Emmons and David Alter show that vibrant aging is within reach.

To really turn back the clock, you need to stimulate collagen production—an essential ingredient that helps your body prevent sagging, wrinkles, and loss of plumpness. And this audiobook is specifically written to help you stop aging in its tracks and make your body an efficient collagen-producing machine.

Title "Embracing Diversity in Young Minds Fostering Understanding and Inclusivity in Adolescence" Dive into the vibrant tapestry of cultural diversity and competence with "Embracing Diversity in Young Minds," a groundbreaking eBook poised to revolutionize the approach to adolescence in multi-ethnic landscapes. This thoughtfully curated collection of chapters weaves together the intricacies of adolescent development amid the complexities of a culturally rich society. In Chapter 1, explore the nuanced layers of cultural identity and unpack the pressing need for cultural competence in ...

For the majority of young adults today, the transition to independence is a time of excitement and possibility. But nearly five million young people experience entry into adulthood as abrupt abandonment, a time of disconnection from school, work, and family. For this growing population of Americans, which includes kids aging out of foster care and those entangled with the justice system, life screeches to a halt when adulthood arrives. Abandoned is the first-ever exploration of this tale of dead ends and broken dreams.

No one has failed to notice that the current generation of youth is deeply - some would say totally - involved with digital media. Professors Howard Gardner and Katie Davis name today’s young people The App Generation, and in this spellbinding book they explore what it means to be “app-dependent” versus “app-enabled” and how life for this generation differs from life before the digital era.

Despite broad interest in developing concentrated treatment programs for OCD, practitioners face several challenges when trying to launch and maintain these programs. This book will provide a comprehensive guide covering the topics of import for clinicians, researchers, and administrators, across different types of institutions and care settings, who want to build an intensive treatment program into their clinical practice across different types of institutions and care settings.

This book is a guide for individuals over 40 who are ready to take control of their lives and embrace the aging process with confidence and vitality. It offers practical advice, empowering strategies, and inspiring stories to help listeners navigate the challenges and opportunities that come with getting older.

The exercise industry is a monster—from online coaching, phone apps, email cues, gadgets, and infomercials, it is designed to turn you into a source of steady revenue stream. With this book, you will no longer need to pay for meaningless approaches to exercise, but will find the tools to remain motivated and active throughout your life. This book is written by a physical therapist, specifically for people who want to begin exercising, and for those who have started and quit, as well as for those realizing the negative effects of age on their activity levels.

This advisory calls attention to the growing concerns about the effects of social media on youth mental health. It explores and describes the current evidence on the positive and negative impacts of social media on children and adolescents, some of the primary areas for mental health and well-being concerns, and opportunities for additional research to help understand the full scope and scale of social media’s impact.

A compassionate and accessible guide for parents whose children have experienced traumatic or life-threatening events written by one of the foremost authorities on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in children and adolescents. Dr. Scheeringa understands the desperation many parents feel and explains the impact of trauma, simplifies the science into layman’s terms, debunks the myths, and provides direction on navigating the confusing maze of the mental health world to find appropriate care.

In 2018, adolescents and young adults aged 15 to 24 had a suicide rate of 14.45. This evil has been aging grounds among the youths of our society as well as among adults in our society. The fact remains that every suicide successfully executed usually have warning signs that were not correctly recognized or identified before the victim carries out the evil act. These warning signs, when identified and the necessary steps are taken, can always reduce the rate of suicide in our society.