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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
Helping Kid Deal With Concern & & & & Tension and stress and anxiety
Whether horrible events touch your family personally or are brought into your home through documents and television, you can help kids handle the tension and stress and anxiety that violence, death and disasters can set off.
The Caring for Every Child’s Mental Health Campaign utilizes these standards for fathers and mothers and other caretakers:
– Encourage kids to ask issues. Deal benefit and assurance that solve their specific concerns.
– Talk on their level. Communicate with your kids in such a method they can understand. Do not get too technical or complicated.
– Be sincere. Notify them exactly what has really happened. Do not state that someone who has really died has in fact “gone to sleep;” kids may wind up being frightened of going to sleep.
– Find out what frightens them. Inspire your kids to discuss concerns they may have. They may worry that someone will injure them at school or that someone will try to damage you.
– Focus on the beneficial. Improve the reality that lots of people are kind and caring. Encourage your kid of the brave actions taken by routine people to help victims of disaster.
– Pay attention. Your kids’s play and illustrations may supply you a peek into their issues or problems.
– Develop a method. Establish a family emergency scenario get ready for the future, such as a conference point where everyone should gather if something unexpected occurs in your family or location. It can help you and your kid feel more protected.
Call your medical professional or a community mental health if you are fretted about your kid’s reaction to stress or injury.
To get more info about kids’s mental health:
Call toll-free: 1.800.789.2647
( TDD): 301.443.9006
Site: www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/child
– Encourage kids to ask issues. Do not state that someone who has really died has really “gone to sleep;” kids may wind up being frightened of going to sleep.
Inspire your kids to speak about concerns they may have. Recommend your kid of the brave actions taken by routine people to help victims of disaster.
It can help you and your kid feel much more secure.
Communicate with your kids in such a method they can understand. Do not state that someone who has in fact passed away has really “gone to sleep;” kids may end up being terrified of going to bed.
Inspire your kids to speak about concerns they may have. Recommend your kid of the brave actions taken by routine people to help victims of disaster.
It can help you and your kid feel more safe and secure.