Summer Activities that Promote Good Mental Health in Kids

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• Tips on Step Parenting (Video)
  In this interview, Dr. Christopher McCarthy discusses ways to make the role step-parenting easier and more successful. Watch the Interview on Step Parenting
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• Top Common Childhood Fears
  Fear and anxiety are usually a normal, healthy response to a new or threatening environment. Children especially express fear and anxiety as they grow and become more aware of explicit and implicit dangers in their everyday lives. Sometimes, however, fears and anxieties can become phobias or evolve into generalized anxiety disorder. Knowing what fears are […]
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• How to Get Your Anxious Child Back to School Step-by-Step
  School is often the setting where anxiety becomes a crisis. Going to school, staying at school or functioning in school can become huge problems. Getting a child back in school and functioning becomes THE family focus. In this post I am going to try to detail the process I would usually recommend and provide a case study […]
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• The Truth About Perfectionism: How to achieve satisfaction even under the toughest standards
  Perfectionism is a personality disposition characterized by exceptionally high standards for performance along with tendencies for over critical self-evaluations of one’s behavior. This framework makes it impossible for perfectionists to fully achieve their standards, thus, they are often dissatisfied with their achievements and, consequently, their lives. More recent research has shown that perfectionism isn’t nicely […]
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