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Canadians recognize Mental Health Week this year from May 3-9. Improving mental health continues to be a central theme in the lives of those across the country and right here in Cochrane, a theme exacerbated the COVID-19 pandemic.
âThis year for Mental Health Week, the Town wants to help people talk about the importance of mental health and to reflect on our own self-care, which is particularly important given the increased physical isolation so many are facing,â reads a media release from the town.
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Canadians recognize Mental Health Week this year from May 3-9. Improving mental health continues to be a central theme in the lives of those across the country and right here in Cochrane, a theme exacerbated the COVID-19 pandemic.
âThis year for Mental Health Week, the Town wants to help people talk about the importance of mental health and to reflect on our own self-care, which is particularly important given the increased physical isolation so many are facing,â reads a media release from the town.
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The Atlantic
Too often their behavior is pathologized, but actually it’s rational.
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Social workers and educators who see young people especially Black boys who live in poor, segregated neighborhoods react aggressively, become irritable, or have trouble concentrating, often identify such behavior as maladaptive. But new research, led by Noni Gaylord-Harden, a clinical psychologist at Texas A&M University, proposes that the young people’s behavior is a rational response to their environment and helps keep them safe. Her findings suggest that instead of focusing on these behaviors identifying them as pathologies to be punished or symptoms to be treated policy makers need to recognize them as adaptive and work to change the inequitable environment that produces them.
Tuolumne County Superintendent Of Schools Office
Sonora, CA The Tuolumne County Superintendent of Schools Office has received a distinguished honor from California Superintendent of Schools Tony Thurmond.
It is one of only 20 in the state recognized as a 2021 “Model School Attendance Review Board Winner.”
A School Attendance Review Board, better known by the acronym SARB, helps ensure that students are attending classes and having educational needs met, regardless of life challenges.
Thurmond says, “These 19 school districts, and one county office of education, created exemplary plans and worked hard to follow through on them to help students stay engaged in their education all during the unprecedented closure of our schools due to a global pandemic.”
jenna: how would we navigate that as individuals, tr? according to his friends, many in texas, they didn t have an inclination that he would have the capacity to carry out this sort of crime so whenever these sort of situations arise, we ask ourselves those questions. you know, what would we do in that situation? how would we even talk to? someone said that they were experiencing anger management issues or heard voices in their head. what should we do? well, it always comes down to balancing privacy with public safety and i think we med to really start taking a hard look at people we see around us displaying these types of symptoms and maybe they need to be brought to the public s attention. we want to protect our civil rights but we also have to protect public safety so people need to speak up, including mental health clinicians when they feel that people will be a threat around them. jenna: it will be interesting to hear if any doctors were