Mental Health Content Topic Results
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October 2022
DVAM Webinar Series: #1Thing to #Care4Advocates Mind, Body, and Soul
Publisher(s): This free 3-part webinar series will feature tools and strategies for supporting advocates’ health and wellness, including ways to prioritize self-care and avoid burnout. Presenters explore how creating the conditions where advocates can thrive aligns with our values.
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September 2022
A Guide to Managing Stress for Disaster Responders and First Responders
Publisher(s):This guide offers information and tips to disaster responders and first responders to help them manage stress during crisis response. It describes how stress affects the body and suggests ways for individuals and organizations to promote and engage in stress management.
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March 2022
Trauma-Informed Care for Hospitalized Adolescents
Publisher(s): In this article, the authors use three case studies of hospitalized adolescents to illustrate the application of trauma-informed principles of care with this unique population.
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October 2021
CAS Toolkit: Alcohol
Publisher(s):A parent-focused communication toolkit that provides evidence-based strategies for preventing underage alcohol use through early, open, and informed conversations with teens.
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October 2021
Mental Health of Black Girls: The Case for Gender-Specific and Culturally Affirming Services
Publisher(s): Racism has critical implications for Black adolescent girls’ mental health. This fact sheet from the National Black Women's Justice Institute outlines the case for gender-specific and culturally affirming services in order to address the mental health needs of Black girls.
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August 2021
The Science of Sexuality and Aging
Publisher(s):This presentation challenges ageist assumptions about older adults and sexuality by emphasizing that sexual expression, intimacy, pleasure, and sexual well-being can remain important throughout aging, including for marginalized and LGBTQ+ older adults.
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August 2021
The Effects of Exposure to Domestic Violence on Babies and Children
Publisher(s):Presented by Judge Carol Kelly and Judge Rolando Prescott, this court-mandated educational video addresses parents involved in domestic violence cases to explain how exposure to abuse physically and emotionally damages children. Watch to explore how domestic violence impairs infant brain architecture, activates toxic stress, alters DNA, and impacts long-term child development.
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April 2021
Impact of Child Sexual Abuse on Survivors’ Physical & Mental Health, Spirituality
Publisher(s):This collection of presentations examines the profound, long-term effects of childhood sexual abuse on mental, physical, emotional, spiritual, and social well-being while emphasizing survivor resilience, storytelling, prevention, accountability, and healing.
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April 2021
Youth Mobile Response Services: An Investment to Decriminalize Mental Health
Publisher(s): This report evaluates the role of law enforcement and mental health systems in the United States and their relationships to racial justice – recognizing that over the past few centuries these systems have caused more harm than good. The report highlights an important alternative to using law enforcement to respond to mental health and social crisis: mobile response.
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March 2021
Support for Stressful Times
Publisher(s): Launched in March 2021 by the Prevention Team at the Ohio Domestic Violence Network (ODVN), the Support for Stressful Times web-based resource page is designed to help folks deal with the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
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January 2021
Problematic Sexual Behaviors: The Latest Research On How to Name and Treat
Publisher(s):This webinar examines the history, definitions, controversies, and clinical approaches surrounding sex addiction, compulsive sexual behavior disorder (CSBD), and hypersexuality while exploring how trauma, attachment, compulsivity, impulsivity, and behavioral addiction influence problematic sexual behaviors.
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November 2020
Trauma Informed Care With Refugee and Immigrant Youth
Publisher(s):In this lecture, Dr. Margarita Alegria describes the issues immigrants and refugees face as they arrive in the U.S. and seek to integrate into a new country and how professionals can support these individuals.









