• A Conversation about our Kids’ Mental Health (video) – watch a recording and view slides from the November 2020 MI Parent Edge program featuring MIYFS Elementary School Counselors and MI Pediatrics doctors
• How to Stop the Cycle of Over Achieving (podcast) – Former lawyer and author Julie Lythcott-Haims on how the pressure to succeed professionally intersects with mental health. The Anxious Achiever podcast from Harvard Business Review.
• “Master Minds & Wingmen” (video) – Rosalind Wiseman
  Wiseman’s book, Masterminds & Wingmen, shows what’s really happening in boys’ lives. It creates a new language and analytical framework to understand the power of boys’ social hierarchies and how these influence their decision-making and emotiona
• Challenge Success – Strategies to support student well-being and engagement with learning
• Nine Empathy Competencies and how to spot them in schools. – Michele Borba, M.Ed., Author of “Unselfie”

KIDS AND ANXIETY

• Ten Things I Say to My Teen When They are Stressed Out – Grown and Flown
• Resources from the producers of the documentary Angst– Common questions and answers, find-a-therapist, websites, apps, videos, articles, and books
• Child Mind Institute – Concerns, disorders, and guides
• Teen Mental Health – Information, stories, care and tools
• Anxiety Coach – Tips and strategies for dealing with common anxieties (i.e., fear of public speaking) – check the menu   
• Peace in Schools – Transformative mindfulness education (Portland, OR)  
• Panic End – Confronting a fear to fight panic attacks
• Wait Until 8^th – Empowering parents to say ’yes’ to waiting for the smartphone
• AnxietyBC – Canadian site offering information, resources, and tools
• 75 Percent of Teen Girls Have Anxiety – What We Can Do About It  (Nancy Schatz Alton, 2018)
• Teens Who Spend Less Time in Front of Screens are Happier – up to a point, new research shows
  (Tara Bahrampour, The Washington Post, 2018)
• Have Smart Phones Destroyed a Generation?  (Jean M. Twenge, The Atlantic, 2017)
• How to Help Teens Become More Self-Compassionate  (Karen Bluth, Greater Good Magazine, 2017)
• Why Are More American Teens Than Ever Suffering from Severe Anxiety?  (Benoit Denizet-Lewis, The New York Times Magazine, 2017)  
• Why Are Asian American Kids Killing Themselves?  (Editors, Plan A Magazine, 2017)
• Michael Phelps interviews – ESPN, 2017, Today, 2017, Men’s Health, 2017
• Washington State Healthy Youth Survey 2016 / WA State Department of Social and Health Services and others
• Mercer Island School District Healthy Youth Survey
• Emerging into Adulthood in the Face of Racial Discrimination: Physiological, Psychological, and Sociopolitical Consequences for African American Youth  (Hope, Hoggard, and Thomas, 2015)
• Racial Discrimination and Mental Health Among Asian American Youth  (Wang, Siy, and Cheryan, 2011)

THE POWER OF GRATITUDE

• Practicing Thankfulness as a Family – ParentMap
• Grateful Parenting – Gratefulness.org
• How to Foster Positivity and an Attitude of Gratitude in Your Kids – ParentMap
• How to Teach Children Gratitude:  It’s more than just saying thank you.  – VeryWellMind.com
• How to Raise Grateful Kids – Hufington Post
• The Power of Gratitude in Parenting – Mindful.org
• Having less of what we appreciate in life can make us more grateful. – Greater Good Science Center, UC Berkley

WHERE TO GET HELP

• OCD Support Group of Washington State – Swedish Hospital every 3^rd Saturday of the month / 10am-1pm, drop in
• OCD Summer Camp  (link to 2017 info; 3 days, ages vary by year)
• Find out more at Evidence Based Treatment Centers of Seattle  (Child and Adult Anxiety Centers, outpatient treatment program for anxiety and OCD, and more)
• Anxiety and Depression Association of America  (ADAA)  has a link to anxiety specialists in different areas 
• International OCD Foundation  lists clinicians who specialize in treating OCD 
• National Alliance on Mental Illness of Seattle  and  NAMI Eastside offer support, workshops/presentations, and resources
• King County Sexual Assault Resource Center offers evidence-based treatment for trauma
• Teen Link at the Crisis Clinic offers live chat every night from 6 – 9 pm for teens

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