by Sandra Peoples | Dec 7, 2023 | Church Support, Disability Ministry, Podcast
Reverse inclusion is a class designed for teens and young adults with disabilities that invites typical teenagers and young adults in for the purpose of friendship. It’s for teens like my son James who wouldn’t enjoy being part of our youth group. That environment...
by Stephen Grcevich MD | Oct 21, 2019 | Key Ministry, Mental Health
While I was away this week at the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s (AACAP) Annual Meeting, a report was issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control describing a 56% increase in the suicide rate over the last ten years among...
by Stephen Grcevich MD | Jul 8, 2019 | Controversies, Key Ministry, Mental Health
The featured article in this month’s Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry(JAACAP) is titled LGBT Youth, Mental Health, and Spiritual Care: Psychiatric Collaboration With Health Care Chaplains. As one of a very small number of...
by Stephen Grcevich MD | Aug 26, 2018 | Key Ministry, Mental Health
As a child and adolescent psychiatrist, I frequently encounter parents and skeptics who freely share their opinions that much of the reported crisis in children’s mental health is fabricated…a marketing scheme of the pharmaceutical industry, a consequence of poor...
by Stephen Grcevich MD | May 20, 2018 | Advocacy, Key Ministry
A study published this past week in the journal Pediatrics shed light upon the growing mental health crisis among American youth. Between 2008 and 2015, the study documents a nearly three-fold increase in the percentage of pediatric hospital emergency room visits...
