Shrinking It Down: Mental Health Made Simple

Shrinking It Down: Mental Health Made Simple

By Gene Beresin, MD, MA and Khadijah Booth Watkins, MD, MPHSociety & CultureHealth & FitnessMental HealthRelationshipsParentingKids & Family
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Shrinking It Down: Mental Health Made Simple episodes

  • Addiction Free Futures Project - Conversations With Youth
    Gene welcomes members from Addiction Free Futures Project to discuss some of their latest initiatives related to Screening, Brief intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT), tools for prevention of substance use by youth and for identifying substance use early if experimentation has already begun.

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    23 min
  • The College Mental Health Crisis
    Drs. Gene Beresin and Steve Schlozman discuss the growing concerns around the mental health of our teens and young adults in college today.Read the accompanying blog post here:http://www.mghclaycenter.org/parenting-concerns/6752/

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    20 min
  • The Importance Of Civility In Today's Political Climate
    Gene and Steve discuss the seeming decrease in civility that has characterized our political discourses over the past months and has also become pervasive throughout our entire culture – not just in politics.Check out the accompanying blog on our website: http://www.mghclaycenter.org/parenting-concerns/families/talking-kids-2016-politics-parents-duty-volatile-political-climate/

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    17 min
  • Raising Moral Children
    Gene and Steve get more abstract in today’s topic as they discuss ethics and morality and how we get kids to think in ways that we’ll be proud of, and ways that they’ll be proud of later on in life.Check out the accompanying blog on our website: http://www.mghclaycenter.org/parenting-concerns/families/raising-moral-children-parental-strategies-that-last-a-lifetime/

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    17 min
  • Grace's Story: Living With A Chronic Medical Illness
    Gene and Steve welcome a special guest,Grace, to talk about a really complicated topic: When you have a chronic medical illness on top of the already challenging experience that is life as a teenager. Check out the accompanying blog on our website: http://www.mghclaycenter.org/parenting-concerns/living-with-a-chronic-medical-illness/

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    17 min
  • Leaving Home - A Student's Perspective
    Gene and Steve welcome special guests Ellen Braaten, PhD and her son, to talk about what is it like for kids and young adults to go off to college or work. What are the stresses and struggles, along with the joys and positive things that happen?Check out the accompanying blog on our website: http://www.mghclaycenter.org/parenting-concerns/teenagers/when-kids-leave-home-part-2/

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    25 min
  • The Psychological Gift Of Giving A Gift
    Gene and Steve focus in on the roles of giving and receiving. Check out the accompanying blog on our website: http://www.mghclaycenter.org/parenting-concerns/families/the-psychological-gift-of-giving-a-gift/

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    13 min
  • Are You Afraid Of The Dark? A Look At Specific Phobias
    We all have fears – some hardwired in survival, some based on traumatic events, and some a little less rational – that is, phobias. Phobias tend to be persistent, resistant to reassurance, last from 6 months to 20 years. Gene and Steve delve in and take a closer look.Check out the accompanying blog on our website: http://www.mghclaycenter.org/parenting-concerns/grade-school/specific-phobias/

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    15 min
  • Leaving Home: The Transition To College Or Work
    Dr. Schlozman looks to colleagues Drs. Beresin and Braaten on the daunting, terrifying unknown of how to help your kids transition to life after high school - work, college, trade school or whatever they may have in store. Check out the accompanying blog on our website: http://www.mghclaycenter.org/parenting-concerns/teenagers/when-kids-leave-home/

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    19 min

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"Shrinking It Down" highlights the fact that youth mental health is anything but simple! Child & adolescent psychiatrists Dr. Gene Beresin and Dr. Khadijah Booth Watkins help parents…