Children’s Mental Health

School Assessments: Tools For a Child’s Success

Understanding how school assessments support your child’s learning, behavior, and growth. With increasing conversations around mandatory school assessments, many parents find themselves feeling anxious or even alarmed. Questions like “What does this evaluation mean for my child’s future?” or …

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When Young Children Show Aggressive Behavior

What Parents and Caregivers Can Do When a young child is displaying aggressive behavior, it can feel overwhelming and distressing for parents. Behaviors like hitting, biting ,and pushing aren’t just challenging, they can negatively impact a child’s ability to safely socialize with other children …

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It’s Spring – So Why Aren’t You Happy?

Rebuilding connections, one step at a time Spring. We all wait for it – a time of renewal when we’re no longer housebound by temperatures and days too short. We look forward to planting our gardens, exercising, and connecting with neighbors, friends, and extended relatives. Or at least, we used …

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Emergency and Disaster Preparedness for Your Family’s Mental and Physical Health

Supporting Your Child’s Mental Health Before, During, and After a Crisis With earthquakes, tornadoes, and train derailments making headlines recently, it’s easy to feel secondary stress from watching the news. As a parent, it’s important to remember that your reactions to these disasters …

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How To Help My Child’s Anxiety

Practical tools to help your child feel safe and supported. Anxiety has always been a part of childhood. Today’s young people are navigating an increasingly complex world—one filled with fast‑moving information, unpredictable events, and pressures that can feel overwhelming even to adults. For …

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Best of “In This Family” Episodes

Our most listened-to conversations about family relationships, mental health, and resilience This fall, Nexus Family Healing launched a new podcast, In This Family, hosted by our President/CEO Dr. Michelle K. Murray. Each episode features guests who share how mental health has shaped their lives …

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The Realities of Youth Homelessness

How homelessness affects young people and the practical ways adults can offer safety and support. November is homeless youth awareness month, so let’s talk about it! In the U.S., 4.2 million youth experience homelessness every year. Around 700,000 of those youth are unaccompanied, …

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Supporting Mental Health Across Cultures

A Guide to Providing Culturally Sensitive Care Across different cultures, the way people talk about mental health, express emotions, and respond to discipline can vary widely. For care professionals, providing culturally sensitive, trauma-informed support means taking the time to understand each …

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Talking to Teens About Social Media

Helping Teens Build a Healthier Relationship with Social Media Starting July 2026, Minnesota will become the first state to require mental health warnings on social media apps. Before users can scroll through posts, they’ll see a pop-up message acknowledging that prolonged use may negatively …

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Cozy Fall Activities for Your Mental Health

The swift approach of Autumn and the ending of summer can be a brutal adjustment. Days are short and cold, evenings are dark and long, and these changes in the weather can bring on symptoms of Seasonal Depressive Disorder. Because of this, it’s important to find enjoyable ways to combat these …

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Back to School: Bubbling Excitement or Anxiety Provoking?

As parents, caregivers, or guardians, the aspect of going back to school is often exciting. There are school supplies to shop for, new outfits to pick out, fresh backpacks to buy, and more. While this can be exciting for students, too, anxiety often rears its ugly head. Once everything is bought and …

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When Mental Illness Doesn’t Improve

Supporting a Loved One with Complex, Ongoing Challenges Caring for a loved one with severe and long-standing mental health issues can be challenging and emotionally draining—especially when traditional treatments fail to bring relief. For many families, years of psychiatric care, medications, …

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Children's Mental Health