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Blog #41 Tourette’s Syndrome in Children and Teenagers

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkC9VrYSU14[/embedyt]  Imagine what it must be like having a disorder where you suddenly start barking or spitting for no reason, you repeat phrases such a ‘shut up” over and over again, your lip twitches, your head jerks, your mimic another person’s words, you grunt, you groan over and over

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Mental Health
Tracey Maxfield

Mental Illness in African American Children and Teenagers

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_svb14fgSXQ[/embedyt] We know that mental illness/disorders do not discriminate based on race, colour, age, socioeconomic status, gender or identity. Anyone can experience a mental illness/disorder; however, minority communities such as African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans/Alaska Natives, Asian Americans to name a few, usually experience more severe forms of mental

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Bullying
Tracey Maxfield

The ‘Circle of Bullying’ and Signs a Child/Teenager is Being Bullied

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5lHBVt2MTU[/embedyt] To truly understand the bully experience, it is important to understand that bullying may not be confined solely to the bully and the victim. Other key people may be involved, some in an active role and others in a passive role and researchers refer to this phenomenon as

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Dementia and the Senses

Dementia Aware: What you need to know about dementia’s effect on the five senses   As we age, many different changes occur in the body, including changes in the sensory organs that enable us to see, to hear, to touch, to smell and to taste. With some modifications to the

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