Category: COVID-19

Category: COVID-19

Blog Header - Managing Expectations in a Post-Pandemic World

Managing Expectations in a Post-Pandemic World

To quote a May 2022 LinkedIn news story:  “The children’s mental health crisis didn’t start with COVID-19. But the pandemic …

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Blog Header - Teaching in Traumatizing Times Navigating Vicarious Trauma in the Classroom

Teaching in Traumatizing Times: Navigating Vicarious Trauma in the Classroom

The mounting stressors in teaching—changes in funding, pressures in state testing, disengaged parents, school violence—were already contributing to increased burnout …

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Blog Header - Teaching in Traumatizing Times Fostering Parent-Teacher Collaborations

Teaching in Traumatizing Times: Fostering Parent-Teacher Collaborations

We know that collaboration between parents and teachers is critical for a student’s academic achievement. We also know it’s a …

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Blog Header - Teaching in Traumatizing Times Listening to Misbehavior

Teaching in Traumatizing Times: Listening to Misbehavior

“Why can’t you just behave?” I’m sure this thought has crossed each teacher’s and parent’s mind at least once. You …

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Blog Header - Teaching in Traumatizing Times The Power of Attachment

Teaching in Traumatizing Times: The Power of Attachment

We are two years into the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a time of complex and collective trauma. Collective traumas are …

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Blog Header - Ted Lasso's advice for managing bad behaviors in the classroom

Ted Lasso’s advice for managing “bad” behaviors in the classroom

Anxiety – particularly in this time of COVID, masks/no mask, vax/no vax – manifests in a surprising variety of ways. …

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Our Response to the Surgeon General’s Advisory on Youth Mental Health

On December 7, 2021, the U.S Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy issued a new Surgeon General’s advisory.  These statements are …

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Blog Header - Conversations with Clarity on Kid's Anxiety from COVID-19

Conversations with Clarity on Kid’s Anxiety from COVID-19

Dr. Joshua Essery, the Director of Outpatient Clinical Services at Clarity Child Guidance Center, hosts a discussion on the impact …

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Back to School in 2021

In August of 2020, I wrote a blog about the decision to keep my then 3-year-old twins enrolled in childcare …

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Fighting Social Isolation in Teens

Fighting Social Isolation in Teens

In Bexar County, less than 40% of students were physically in school during COVID. Many found themselves isolated or chose …

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