Supporting Families Impacted by Stress and Trauma
When children experience a traumatic event, the entire family is affected. Often, family members have different experiences and emotional responses to the traumatic event.
Tag Archive for: Counseling
Support for Developmental Trauma in Childhood
The impact of significant stressors on families and their developing child’s environment can be lifelong since prolonged stress can create biological changes in brain chemistry.
High School Anxiety: Transitions & Triggers for Teens & their Families
Anxiety present at the beginning of a new school year as part of back-to-school-anxiety is common.
Ways for Caregivers to Support Children & Teens who are Struggling at School
As a parent, knowing how to best support children and teens who are struggling at school can feel overwhelming.
Types of Thoughts that Indicate Therapy Would be Beneficial
Intrusive thoughts can be described as unwanted thoughts that seem to come out of nowhere and are distressing. They may be connected to a real-life event such as a flashback after a traumatic event.
Mandated Reporting: Considerations for Providers Working with Children in the BIPOC Community
Since Black and Native American children are disproportionately reported and involved in child protective services in Minnesota, reading literature on topics such as systemic racism, ways to help break cycles and help children thrive, family preservation, kinship care, and building on the strengths of families is the first of many systems towards systemic change for everyone who works with children, but especially important when working with the BIPOC community.
Sex After 40
Sex drive changes through various ages in addition to the quality and quantity of sexual encounters.
“Second Puberty” in Adults
The Tanner-stages of sexual maturity ratings help provide guides for physical development changes.
How to Cope with Feeling Judged by Others within your Spaces
It can be very hard to be vulnerable again if you have opened up in a space that felt safe at the time (e.g., with a partner, parent, best friend, or past therapist) only to feel misunderstood, upset, and discouraged to continue opening up.
Different Post-partum Depression Stages, Signs, and Symptoms
Did you know that there are three continuous but distinct phases in the postpartum period?
