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Blog post
09.21.2021
Self-Compassion: The Art of Tending to Your Struggles with Loving-kindness Instead of Self-criticism
There are many ways in which you can practice self-compassion. Learn more in this blog and webinar series by ADAA Member Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT.
Blog post
08.19.2021
The Aching Red: Firefighters Often Silently Suffer from Trauma and Job-related Stress
More often, people have heard about PTSD in the context of war, with combat-exposed veterans. While combat veterans often return to the normality of the civilian life after deployment, the job of firefighters, police officers and emergency medical services workers involves regular, routine exposure to all types of traumas, for years and decades of their careers.
Blog post
08.04.2021
Ease Your Return-To-Work Anxiety
Each of us manages stress in our own ways—some healthy and some unhealthy. Being proactive can help minimize some of the more unproductive behaviors. This blog shares 8 suggestions to help you navigate through these unpredictable times.
Webinar
07.22.2021
Building Resilience: How Families Can Prepare for the Uncertain School Year Ahead
Our goal is to show how building resilience can ease the transition back to school this fall and help your children thrive despite the uncertainties and changes they will face. The panelists, a child and adolescent psychologist, a pediatrician and an adult psychiatrist discuss practical and evidence-based skills that parents can encourage in their kids as they move forward into a new school year.
Clinical Trial
07.21.2021
Optimizing Exercise for the Treatment of Anxiety
Description of Study
Optimizing Exercise for the Treatment of Anxiety
Principal Investigator
Kristin Szuhany
Blog post
07.21.2021
Thriving with Anxiety and Depression
In contrast to more traditional psychological approaches, positive psych concerns itself with the good stuff in life. It strives to understand what makes for a good life and how we can not only maintain average or ‘normal’ functioning but how we can actually surpass it. Positive psychology focuses on building strengths and on maximizing wellbeing. In a word, it’s all about thriving.
Blog post
07.21.2021
FOMO & Your Mental Health Twitter Chat Transcript
Transcript of ADAA members Drs. Debra Kissen and Kevin Chapman live twitter chat on July 20 2021 discussing tips and strategies for dealing with FOMO @GotAnxiety.
Personal Story
07.20.2021
Free Yourself. Be Yourself: Free The Bird.
16-year-old Adnan Alkhalil created and unincorporated nonprofit association/foundation called Free The Bird which is run by youth for youth in an effort to break free of dysphoria.
Blog post
07.19.2021
Returning Safely to In-Person Learning
One of the biggest adversities children have faced in quarantine is social isolation from their peers. Schooling and extracurricular activities associated with long-term education plans were the first to go during the shutdown, as the highest priority was to protect children from the spread of the virus. While necessary for the safety of the public, this has shown to have devastating effects on pediatric mental health.
Personal Story
07.15.2021
Creating a Safe Space Online
As a Twitch Streamer, a live-streaming platform for gamers, I plan to give back to people who are feeling the same way I felt, and to create a safe place where people can come and hang out and talk about life. Because life is hard and we can't do it alone.
Webinar
07.15.2021
Does Your Child Have Anxiety or OCD?
Recorded public webinar presented by Dr. Eli Lebowitz. This webinar will introduce SPACE, a proven, effective approach that works directly through you, the parent. Get the tools to be supportive while showing your child confidence that they can cope.
Personal Story
07.09.2021
Long Live the King
I miss my best friend. This is a given. But I cannot let his death keep me down. I must use it as an incentive to shoot farther than I ever have. And even though I wish everyday that he was still here, I know I will see him again one day, and when I do, I can tell him all about the things I accomplished in our name. Long Live the King.