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WHO WE ARE The Marsh Clinics® is a 501(c)3 organization created to ensure that all communities have access to quality mental health care services. We are committed to serving historically underserved communities who have continually been denied access to mental health care. We hope by increasing accessibility and affordability through our telehealth services, we will be able reach out to all people and reclaim mental health care as a necessary part of overall health and well being. Through our work, we hope to not only transform individual lives but transform communities.
Helping Children Cope With Fear & Anxiety
Assisting Kid Handle Worry & & Stress and anxiety
Whether awful occasions touch your household personally or are brought into your house through papers and tv, you can assist kids manage the stress and anxiety that violence, death and catastrophes can trigger.
The Caring for Every Child’s Mental Health Campaign uses these guidelines for moms and dads and other caretakers:
– Encourage kids to ask concerns. Offer convenience and guarantee that resolve their particular worries.
– Talk on their level. Interact with your kids in such a way they can comprehend. Do not get complex or too technical.
– Be truthful. Inform them precisely what has actually taken place. Do not state that somebody who has actually passed away has actually “gone to sleep;” kids might end up being scared of going to bed.
– Find out what scares them. Motivate your kids to speak about worries they might have. They might stress that somebody will hurt them at school or that somebody will attempt to harm you.
– Focus on the favorable. Enhance the truth that many people are kind and caring. Advise your kid of the brave actions taken by regular individuals to assist victims of catastrophe.
– Pay attention. Your kids’s play and illustrations might provide you a peek into their issues or concerns.
– Develop a strategy. Develop a household emergency situation prepare for the future, such as a meeting point where everybody must collect if something unanticipated takes place in your household or area. It can assist you and your kid feel more secure.
If you are worried about your kid’s response to tension or injury, call your doctor or a neighborhood psychological health.
To get more information about kids’s psychological health:
Call toll-free: 1.800.789.2647
( TDD): 301.443.9006
Website: www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/child
– Encourage kids to ask concerns. Do not state that somebody who has actually passed away has actually “gone to sleep;” kids might end up being scared of going to bed.
Motivate your kids to talk about worries they might have. Advise your kid of the brave actions taken by regular individuals to assist victims of catastrophe.
It can assist you and your kid feel much safer.