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The Best Kids’ Books on Mental Health of 2024

Child Mind Intitute

Clinicians at the Child Mind Institute specializing in conditions that include anxiety, depression, and autism reviewed more than 60 titles that were published in 2024 to compile our inaugural annual list of the best kids’ books for mental health. But how appropriate and helpful is the message? Published by Chronicle Books.

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The Number of People With Chronic Conditions is Soaring. Are we Less Healthy Than we Used to be – or Overdiagnosing Illness?

Mad in America

Autism , Tourette syndrome, ADHD, migraines, fibromyalgia, polycystic ovary syndrome, depression, eating disorders, anxiety and many more. The story is the same for multiple categories of mental health disorder. PTSD has surged among college students, the New York Times, May 2024.

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Charles Spencer’s Story of Boarding School Abuse Is Haunting

Mad in America

But she has an eating disorder,’ my mother said. Once again, my older brother walked into the kitchen where I was talking to my mother. He saw me in distress. Tell her to pull her socks up,’ he told my mother. He was twenty-nine. He had not been sent to boarding school. Norton & Company, 1950) p.

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Dear Mr. Kennedy

ADDitude

16 It is serious, potentially lethal, and associated with elevated risks for comorbid conditions 17, 18 including anxiety, depression, 19 substance use disorder, 20 eating disorders, 21, 22 obesity, and oppositional defiant disorder, 23 which commonly derails treatment plans and parenting strategies. Int J Eat Disord.