A Parent’s Guide to Comforting Kids When News Is Frightening: Age-Appropriate Tips For Parents
Children are often exposed to distressing news, experts say creating an open dialogue helps them process their emotions.
Children are often exposed to distressing news, experts say creating an open dialogue helps them process their emotions.
A Stanford Medicine Children’s Health psychiatrist provides advice on how parents can help their kids understand what they see or hear in the news.
Experts say it’s important to engage in conversations about the violence your child has seen or heard and how it makes them feel.
Some tweens and younger teenagers may have difficultly understanding the motives behind social media content, or discerning fact from misinformation.
Move over Rover, Otis-AI is taking lead. These cheery animatronic puppies strutted, fetched, and played with young patients at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford.
Managing back-to-school separation anxiety for children and parents alike.
As young people return to in-person learning amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Vicki Harrison, MSW, from the Stanford Center for Youth Mental Health & Wellbeing offers advice to help quell students’ anxieties.
BERT (Bedside Entertainment and Relaxation Theater) rolled out in the hospital’s perioperative unit. It’s purpose is to reduce the use of oral anxiety medications before operations and improving patient and family satisfaction levels.