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Children’s Mental Health: Signs Your Child Is Struggling
As a parent or caregiver, you want the best for your children or other dependents. You may be concerned or have questions about certain behaviors they exhibit and how to ensure they get help. Read more >>
Eating Disorders — Anorexia, Binge Eating, and Bulimia
Eating disorders involve extreme emotions, attitudes, and behaviors involving weight and food. Read more >>
Fight Flight Freeze – Anxiety Explained for Teens
F3 or the Fight-Flight-Freeze response is the body’s automatic, built-in system designed to protect us from threat or danger. This video teaches teens how anxiety can trigger this normal biological response. Read more >>
Anxiety Canada [web resource] [downloadable]
Anxiety Canada provides information to help understand anxiety in children, teens, and adults and practical tips, resources, and self-help tools to help manage anxiety. Read more >>
Adolescent Suicide Rate Hits 20-Year High
Recent research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association indicates the suicide rate for teens ages 15 to 19 is at its highest point in 20 years, and that suicide is now the second-leading cause of death for Read more >>
Anxiety and Depression in Children: Get the Facts
Although some fears and worries are typical in children, persistent or extreme forms of fear and sadness could be due to anxiety or depression. Read more >>
Lack of Sleep May Increase Likelihood of Teens Engaging in Risky Behaviors
Teenagers who don’t get enough sleep may be at an increased risk of engaging in unsafe sexual behaviors, such as not using condoms or having sex under the influence of alcohol or drugs, according to new research published by the Read more >>
Teens with Mental Health Problems More Likely to Take Up Cigarettes
Teens with mental health problems were more likely to take up cigarettes, both electronic and regular, according to a longitudinal study. Read more >>
Bay Area Teens Share Their Experiences Struggling with Anxiety, Depression
For one week in the spring, KQED opens its airwaves to student-produced content from classrooms around the Bay Area in a segment called Youth Takeover. Read more >>
NIMH-Funded Study Finds “13 Reasons Why” Associated with Increase in Youth Suicide Rates
The Netflix show “13 Reasons Why” was associated with a 28.9% increase in suicide rates among U.S. youth ages 10-17 in the month (April 2017) following the show’s release, after accounting for ongoing trends in suicide rates, according to a Read more >>
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CHC Palo Alto:
650 Clark Way, Palo Alto, CA 94304
650.326.5530
CHC South Bay:
2280 Kenwood Avenue, San Jose, CA 95128
408.831.7512
CHC Ravenswood:
1765 E Bayshore Rd, East Palo Alto, CA 94303
650.702.2487
