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Tracey Maxfield

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) in Children and Teenagers

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ5BEubs1X0[/embedyt] Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) or winter depression as it is also known, is a form of depression that follows a season pattern and appears and disappears at the same time each year. SAD appears when winter approaches and daylight hours become shorter and when spring returns and days

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Mental Health
Tracey Maxfield

Blog #7: Mental illness and bullying in children and teenagers

Kids have been bullying each other for generations. Bullying is defined as the physical, verbal, relational, and/or or psychological attacks or intimidation against a person who cannot properly defend him/herself. It includes two key components: repeated harmful acts and an imbalance of power.

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Non-Suicidal Self Injury (NSSI) in Children and Teenagers
Mental Health
Tracey Maxfield

Blog #4: Non-Suicidal Self Injury (NSSI) in Children and Teenagers

 Self-harm or Non-Suicidal Self Injury (NSSI) is a deliberate, self-inflicted injury to body tissue resulting in damage, but without any suicidal intent. The injury can be superficial e.g. skin tear, bruising or can be disfiguring with subsequent scarring to skin. There is some debate amongst healthcare professionals about whether

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