After a long day at work or while socializing with friends, many people enjoy a few drinks. In many situations, alcohol can certainly improve mood. Even though a few drinks here and there aren’t too bad, many people drink too much. It’s not hard to understand why so many people frequently overindulge in alcohol when […]… Learn more.
Post-secondary student mental health is in crisis: Research shows students’ mental health was adversely affected in the pandemic, and this falls on the heels of pre-existing concerns that campuses were struggling t… Learn more.
For many students, heading off to university means moving away from home and to a new place, facing the prospect of making new friends or adjusting to larger class sizes. For some it will also mean readapting to in-per… Learn more.
COVID-19 has inflicted a serious mental health toll on many U.S. workers. Like other Americans, workers have lost loved ones, connections to friends and family, and the comforts of their daily social rhythms. The p… Learn more.
The onset of what some psychologists suggest is a mental health “parallel pandemic” during COVID-19 has created new questions about how post-secondary instructors address mental health in their classrooms. The n… Learn more.
When you experience a physical injury, it bleeds and people can see clearly that you are in trouble. But the scenario is not the same with mental health problems; however, long-term ignorance can cause serious harm to th… Learn more.
Children need help to recover from the disruption COVID has brought to their schooling. Much of the focus – and government funding – has been on academic catch-up. Some schools are beginning to trial adding an … Learn more.
In the early stages of life, children and adolescents must cope with various stressors. The beginning of compulsory schooling is one of them. It requires a change of routines in the child and the beginning of a stage… Learn more.
With record-breaking heat waves, wildfires and floods, 2021 may be the year we finally wake up to climate change. According to the most recent assessment of the International Panel on Climate Change, the effects ar… Learn more.
Even before COVID-19, as many as 1 in 6 young children had a diagnosed mental, behavioral or developmental disorder. New findings suggest a doubling of rates of disorders such as anxiety and depression among childr… Learn more.
