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Appreciating our pastors during Mental Illness Awareness Week

Appreciating our pastors during Mental Illness Awareness Week

These findings tell us that we need to reverse course and consider how to attend to the mental health of pastors themselves.

Caring for our neighbors in a COVID-19 mental health crisis

Caring for our neighbors in a COVID-19 mental health crisis

Here's why I'd recommend Psychological First Aid to any pastor or church leader interested in quickly building capacity to care for large numbers of hurting people during the pandemic.

Seven ways to support kids with anxiety about the coronavirus

Seven ways to support kids with anxiety about the coronavirus

What can parents do to promote the mental health of their kids amidst talk of the coronavirus in the weeks and months ahead? Here are seven ideas..,

A letter to #MyYoungerSelf

A letter to #MyYoungerSelf

The Child Mind Institute has launched the #MyYoungerSelf campaign during Mental Health Month to counter the stigma for the 1 in 5 children struggling with these disorders. This May actors, athletes, social influencers, business people and others are sending a message of hope about their experiences growing up with a mental health or learning disorder. Here's a letter from the leader of our ministry team to an eleventh grade boy who was going through a difficult time.

It's the hidden disabilities that keep kids out of church

It's the hidden disabilities that keep kids out of church

The study found that the children most likely to be excluded from church are those with autism spectrum disorders and common mental health conditions - anxiety, depression, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Conduct Disorder and ADHD.

Five reasons limiting electronics is harder for kids with mental health conditions

Five reasons limiting electronics is harder for kids with mental health conditions

I am suggesting that parents consider why their child's reactions to being parented in their use of technology are so extreme and to consider how they might address the "why" that fuels their child's apparent addiction to their electronic toys.