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Helping Hands Need A Break, Too: How To Lend Support Without Burning Out

October 17, 2020 • These days, there are hundreds of reasons to open your heart to others, but it's easy to get exhausted. Try these tips honed by social workers for staying healthy and empathetic.

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Obsession Or Just Good Hygiene? Keeping The Coronavirus And OCD At Bay

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June 13, 2020 • About 40% of people with obsessive compulsive disorder struggle, as I do, with contamination anxiety. Balancing the need to sanitize a home in pandemic times with the need to tame OCD can be tricky.

Pediatricians Stand By Meds For ADHD, But Some Say Therapy Should Come First

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Pediatricians Stand By Meds For ADHD, But Some Say Therapy Should Come First

September 30, 2019 • New treatment guidelines don't assuage concerns that some children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are being prescribed medication too soon, before behavioral interventions are tried.

Pediatricians Stand By Meds For ADHD, But Some Say Therapy Should Come First

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College Students (And Their Parents) Face A Campus Mental Health 'Epidemic'

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College Students (And Their Parents) Face A Campus Mental Health 'Epidemic'

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May 28, 2019 • Anthony Rostain and B. Janet Hibbs say college students today face an "inordinate amount of anxiety" — but parents can help their kids cope. Their book is The Stressed Years of Their Lives.

College Students (And Their Parents) Face A Campus Mental Health 'Epidemic'

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Life And Mind At Dinner: An Allegory

March 29, 2017 • Blogger Marcelo Gleiser imagines a conversation between a geneticist, a Buddhist, a physicist, a psychologist, and a theologian about life and the future of humanity.