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Healthy Eating
Eating is an essential and everyday human function. Everyone knows how to eat; but not everyone knows how to eat well, that is, in a way that promotes health. Healthy eating requires taking into account not only on what we eat, but also on how we eat it - and why.
Preventing Violence Among Adolescents and Young Adults
Violent acts committed by youth are complex and often misunderstood phenomena. For example, many believe that rates of violent crime committed by youth
Welcoming Our Vets Home
Many veterans returning from Afghanistan, like those who served in Iraq and other wars, come home with invisible wounds. They often look the same, but
Using The Arts To Enhance Your Life
All of us look for ways of staying well in mind and body, and the arts can be a wonderful means of connecting our body with our mind. Art forms such as
When there is an Illness in the Family
The diagnosis of a chronic or life threatening illness in a family can pose significant challenges for the patient and for the entire family. Initially
Mindfulness Meditation
Mindfulness meditation is a discipline of mind training, and it has been variously defined by many different groups over the centuries. A good contemporary definition taken from Mindfulness and Psychotherapy by members of The Insititute for Meditation and Psychotherapy is "awareness of present experience...
Healthy Children, Healthy Families
In today’s fast-paced and information-saturated culture, parents often juggle multiple responsibilities and demands on their time. One of the best gifts we can give our children is to spend quality time with them; this is more meaningful than the actual quantity of time we are able to spend together....
Helping Children Cope with Stress
Today’s children are growing up in an increasingly complex world. They routinely encounter multiple sources of adversity and stress in their homes, schools, peer groups, communities, and the media. Despite this, however, children can be highly resilient, and there is much we can do to help them cope...
Coping with Depression
Sadness is a part of every life. We all have losses or disappointments that make us sad
Managing Loss
The experience of loss, and its frequent companion, grief, have perhaps always been captured most poignantly by poets and lyricists, yet mental health care providers are often left with the daunting task of trying to help those who have suffered a loss comprehend it, work through it and eventually come...
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