Parents, caregivers, and other caring adults play a crucial role when helping children cope after they experienced a traumatic event. It is important for us adults to make sure that children with trauma feel safe in their environment as they go through their emotions of fear and grief. Here are some simple tips on helping…
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Last week, we talked the first of six strategies rooted in positive psychology to create psychological safety. As a reminder, psychological safety is the belief that you will not be punished for making a mistake because everyone has trust for each of their team member. Here is tip #2 from Paul Santagata’s six strategies: 2.…
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After one of our schools experience a very traumatic event, we believe parents, teachers, and other caring adults should know the effects of trauma and its impact on the brain. Trauma that is left untreated can have a major, long lasting effects on mental and physical health, which could also lead to more serious health…
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Have you ever used knowledge about the flaws of your partner, child, or friend as a weapon? We likely all have at one point. Sometimes this is because we believe the person who wins the most often is the least flawed …and therefore not the one who is least worthy of love. We have likely…
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A few months ago we explained in a post that people who have hope have both “willpower” and “waypower”. Waypower: The ability to see a WAY to shape one’s future. Willpower: The WILL to shape one’s future In this animated short film, a creative mom realizes her son needs to see an example of a…
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Positive thinking habits can be an important factor in depression prevention and recovery. The good news it can be learned…but it takes practice. One way to practice positive thinking is to savor the positive. Savoring is like squeezing all of the juice out of a positive experience so we maximize the effect toward good mental…
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Emotional safety isn’t just a touchy-feely concept. Study after study shows it is not only key to mental health, but also innovation and success. In fact, Google completed a two year study to find out what made some of their teams more high-performing than others. Guess what they discovered was the number one factor for…
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Did you know that this week is also National School Counseling Week? Sponsored by the American Counseling Association (ASCA), National School Counseling Week will be celebrated between now and Feb. 7th, 2020. By honoring school counselors across the state and nation, we will highlight the impact school counselors can have in helping our kids achieve…
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The Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced (COPE) inventory is a multi-dimensional tool that assess a person’s coping strategy to deal with stress. The COPE inventory has three components: Problem-focused coping, which measures active coping, planning, suppression of completing activities, restraint coping, and seeking of instrumental social support. Emotion-focused coping, which measures seeking of emotional social…
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Did you know that February is American Heart Month? Studies have shown that people who have close relationships at home, school, work, or in their community are more likely to live a healthier and longer life. According to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, one of the reasons this may be is because we…
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