Advice for your child’s back to school anxiety: Maranda Interview with Elizza LeJeune
LeJeune’s advice for parents on how to identify if their child is having anxiety about going back to school and helping them during these uncertain times.
Psychological First Aid: Helping Children Better Manage Stress
No school, no church, no playdates with friends, no summer vacation trips…life has been and continues to be extremely stressful for everyone—including children. Adults can often identify what is stressful in their life and talk about it. Children, on the...
Tips for Coping with Loneliness During COVID-19: WZZM Interview with Jean Holthaus
On July 22, Jean Holthaus, LISW, Pine Rest Telehealth Clinic Manager, was interviewed by Catherine Behrendt for WZZM 13's 'Alive & Well' segment. The topic was "Coping with Loneliness and Isolation During COVID-19." Jean offers creative solutions for people of...
Advice For Families Anxious About Reopening: Maranda Interview with Dr. Greg Mallis
Dr. Mallis suggests families go at their own speed with going back out in public. Whether it be going to your favorite restaurant and sitting outside, going to the John Ball Zoo or Craig’s Cruisers, or even just going to the beach. It’s important that you take the steps that are most comfortable to you and your family when trying to regain some normalcy in your lives.
Pine Rest Report Predicts Up to 32% Increase in Statewide Suicide Rates Tied to Pandemic
Authors offer a range of concrete solutions to address the risks and call on Michigan healthcare providers, public health officers, policy makers, funders, payers and the public to take immediate action.
Tough Economic Times: Lessons From the Tank
By Bob VandePol, MSW COVID-19 challenges many areas of our lives in many frightening ways. It threatens the health and safety of ourselves and loved ones, forced us into social isolation and resulted in radical shifts in education and work….
Getting Things Done: Tips on Overcoming Procrastination
We have an uncanny ability to find new and inventive ways to avoid taking action. Our moods can rob of us of motivation just when we especially need it to feel better. On the other hand, we also encounter avoidance…
We Need to Talk About Suicide
We need to start talking about suicide. Now. And we need to keep talking. Suicide has long been a serious public health problem. The recent and sudden isolation, unemployment and precipitous change ushered in by COVID-19 threatens to increase the...
How Pandemic Lockdown May Make You More Susceptible to Body Shaming … and What You Can Do About It
We are now several weeks into the “new norm” that COVID-19 has quickly ushered us into. Working from home. Parenting from home. Teaching from home. Worshipping from home. All the things from home. As part of this new norm, I’ve…
Making Change Sweeter: How to Find the Sweet Spot
In their Transtheoretical Model, James Prochaska and Carlo DiClimente identify five stages in the process of change. Basically, you have pre-change, a beginning, middle and an end or continuance. When it comes to change, different people have more or less…