Middle School Archives

How to Help Your Child Learn Healthy Ways to Tolerate Frustration

As a parent, it’s crucial for you to have age-appropriate expectations for tolerating frustration. Children’s abilities develop over time, and younger children are likely to struggle more with frustration than older children. Read more >>

DBT: A Tool That Can Enhance Group Therapy with Mindfulness, Emotional Regulation, and Interpersonal Skills

Children’s Health Council facilitates therapeutic DBT skills groups to give teenagers an environment where they can interact with their peers as they practice their DBT skills. These groups are a great setting for teens to get comfortable with their new… Read more >>

Trans Youth Equality Foundation [web resource]

The Trans Youth Equality Foundation provides education, advocacy and support for transgender, nonbinary and gender non-conforming children and youth and their families. Read more >>

Gender-Diverse & Transgender Children

Research suggests that gender is something we are born with; it can’t be changed by any interventions. It is critically important that children feel loved and accepted for who they are. Read more >>

The Gender Creative Child: Pathways for Nurturing and Supporting Children Who Live Outside Gender Boxes

The Gender Creative Child guides parents and professionals through the rapidly changing cultural, medical, and legal landscape of gender and identity. Read more >>

Online Health and Safety for Children and Youth: Best Practices for Families and Guidance for Industry [downloadable]

The Kids Online Health and Safety Task Force (KOHS), co-led by SAMHSA and the NTIA, released a new report with recommendations and best practices for safer social media and online platform use for youth. The full report provides a summary Read more >>

Autism & Learning

In this Voices of Compassion podcast, two of our expert CHC licensed psychologists, Dr. Melanie Hsu and Dr. Cassandra Sanchez, share how the social challenges associated with autism can pose barriers to learning when in a highly stimulating environment like Read more >>

10 Hacks to Boost Teens’ Executive Function Skills and Manage Screen Time

Teens’ focus is interrupted, on average, every 90 seconds. Something as simple as an audible notification can draw focus away from a task. In schools, multiple distractions across the classroom create an almost impossible task of staying on topic and Read more >>

What is Conduct Disorder?

Conduct disorder is the mental health condition that is diagnosed when children or teens exhibit serious aggressive and antisocial behaviors that violate rules or rights of others, with little to no guilt or concern regarding their actions. People with conduct Read more >>

Gender Diversity

In this Voices of Compassion episode, you’ll learn about gender diversity terms and when to use them, how to support your child’s natural gender exploration, and resources to support their journey. As a result, you’ll see the joy of your Read more >>

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