Do you feel overwhelmed by the sight of back-to-back calls on your work calendar or a full week of family appointments? Moments before you begin a public speaking engagement or manage a conflict with a peer, how fast is your heart beating? If you answered “Yep, really fast, and...
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Don’t worry, you’re not the only one who just Googled, “What does menty b mean?” Most of us are a generation or two removed from Gen Z (born 1997-2012) and even further from Generation Alpha, aka the digital natives. Googling the definition of unfamiliar slang you hear from a...
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Part II Editor’s Note: To read Part I of Motivational Interviewing, check out our first post: How to Strengthen Your Connections with At-Risk Youth. In it we provide an overview of Motivational Interviewing, including the key pillars (open-ended questions, affirmations, reflections, and summarizing), sample scenarios and scripts, and more....
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It’s been nearly a year since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in the hallmark Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case. Last June, the landscape of pregnancy care and reproductive health in America changed significantly. In honor of National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month, we’re revisiting the...
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POV: You’re the parent of a teen. Your 16-year-old daughter comes home from school every day and takes a 2-hour nap in her room before emerging for dinner and then back to her room for another late night of studying. When you ask her how she’s doing she looks...
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In recent years, society has lightened the stigma around mental health. Do you agree? Thanks to policy initiatives, marketing campaigns, and celebrity disclosures about their own battles, public perception of mental health is changing. Words like resilience, boundaries, grief, self-care, culturally-responsive, and trauma-informed are becoming part of our vernacular. ...
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Note: this article is Part II of a series on ‘at-risk youth.’ Read Part I to learn what we mean when we say ‘at-risk youth’ and how to differentiate between risk factors and risk behaviors. Part I also covers the interrelated nature of risks, adverse outcomes associated with increased...
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It’s 4:18pm and you’re driving home from work. When you notice the time on the dashboard, you feel overwhelmingly tired, and also thankful. As a school nurse, the end of your work day is hours before that of your colleagues who work in inpatient settings. So, you are thankful...
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The holidays are here! For many of us, this is an opportunity to take a break from our usual rhythms of school and work to spend quality time with our loved ones and consider what matters most. Music and merriment, food and festivities – it’s lovely, but it’s also...
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Professionally or personally, most of us know at least one person who has walked the haunted path of addiction. Substance abuse and addiction is a painful, disorienting, and overwhelming problem for both the person who uses and their family and friends. Misusing substances like alcohol, tobacco, illicit drugs, and...
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