Your Children Need Behavioral Health

Children are increasingly at risk when it comes to their behavioral health. They need informed parents and trained teachers and administrators to recognize their emotional ups and downs. Children from birth to 17 (and into early adulthood) are more vulnerable today because of multiple factors that can engulf them:
1.) Increased thoughts of self-harm and suicide.
2.) Vaping, drinking, hazing, drug use, and poor nutrition.
3.) Domestic violence, separation/divorce, parents with multiple partners.
4.) School shootings and the perception that it could happen to them.
5.) Television news, social media, web (and 'Dark Web'), and cyberbullying.
6.) Adverse Childhood Events (ACEs): School bullying, body shaming, hostile teachers, racism, gender, and ethnic discrimination.
7.) Poverty, dangerous neighborhoods, fear of police, and shootings.
8.) Lack of positive parental interactions: shouting vs. affection; swearing vs. teaching coping skills; cellphones vs. face-to-face conversations, selfish parents vs. family time, and using video games/TV/l Pads as 'babysitting' conveniences.
9.) Parents who don't participate in their children's schools.
10.) Teachers who don't practice behavioral health basics when interacting with students.
Is that enough? Because many more issues are stressing our children that parents and teachers may not comprehend. This podcast will help you better understand the behavioral health stressors children and teens face and what to do about it NOW!
Please share this important podcast with parents, grandparents, teachers, and friends.
Thank you for caring,
Tom McNulty, M.S.