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What Does Childhood Anxiety Look Like? Probably Not What You Think.
The good news in all of this is that child anxiety is very treatable, especially with early intervention. Read more >>
6 Types of Anxiety that Can Affect Children
There are many types of anxiety disorders, but the following are the disorders most common anxiety disorders experienced by children. Read more >>
How to Calm a Stressed Kid? A One-Minute Video Can Help, According to Stanford Researchers
A Stanford study shows that taking a few slow, deep breaths significantly reduces children’s physiological arousal in everyday settings. Read more >>
California Joins Other States With Laws Limiting Wait Times for Mental Health Issues
Many Americans with mental illness report waiting weeks for care, even for serious depression or suicidality. California has a new law for insurers, limiting those wait times to two weeks or less. Read more >>
Mindfulness Minutes Series Helps Children Learn About Mindfulness [web resource]
You may be wondering why mindfulness is important for your child. Mindfulness gives kids the habit of focusing on the present moment and ignoring distractions, promotes happiness and patience by lowering social anxiety and stress, teaches them to stay calm Read more >>
Youthful Advisers Help Shape a Mental Health Program for Their Peers
Phebe Cox grew up in what might seem an unlikely mental health danger zone for a kid: tony Palo Alto, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley. But behind its façade of family success and wealth, she said, is an Read more >>
Learning how to cope with adversity is an important part of healthy child development. When we are threatened, our bodies prepare us to respond by increasing our heart rate, blood pressure, and stress hormones, such as cortisol. When a young Read more >>
Why Teenage Sleep Is So Important for Mental Health
It should come as no surprise that a serious lack of sleep, or seriously disturbed sleep, is one of the most common symptoms of depression among adolescents. After all, however tired you might feel, it’s hard to drop off if Read more >>
What Teletherapy Is and Why It Works
written by Liza Bennigson, Associate Director of Marketing and Communications In the early days of the pandemic, CHC implemented a remote model of care using a HIPAA-compliant healthcare platform on Zoom so that our nonprofit mental health agency could continue Read more >>
The Difference Between Hope and Optimism
Some of the people who have done the best have been downright pessimistic about the outside world, but they’ve paid less attention to external circumstances and focused more on what they could do to persevere. Read more >>
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650 Clark Way, Palo Alto, CA 94304
650.326.5530
CHC South Bay:
2280 Kenwood Avenue, San Jose, CA 95128
408.831.7512
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1765 E Bayshore Rd, East Palo Alto, CA 94303
650.702.2487
