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Parents often come to me feeling they have exhausted every avenue and are looking for practical steps to help their child’s anxiety. The parents often present as being very anxious…

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Apr 2018

Front Page Teenagers

Learning Points: Labelling kids as anxious will not help them to cope

One of the most prevalent issues I encounter in the therapeutic setting is that of teenage anxiety. It can take the shape of many forms, from social anxiety to school refusal…

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Mar 2018

Front Page Teenagers

Learning Points: Troubled child can undermine whole family

It is important that everyone in the family has a chance to express their feelings about what is happening in the house, writes Richard Hogan TEENAGE mental health has received a lot of…

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Mar 2018

Education

Learning Points: Testing times for parents and pupils alike

For many parents of teenagers, this time of year can be quite stressful. There are only 12 weeks to the Leaving and Junior Cert examinations. Many of the conversations I have…

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Feb 2018

Front Page Teenagers

Learning points: When suicide occurs in our community, it cannot go unspoken about

I still remember, vividly, the last conversation I had with a childhood friend of mine. I was out one Saturday night in Cork and happened to bump into him, writes…

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Feb 2018

Front Page Teenagers

Learning Points: What to do when it smells like teen spirit

Oscar Wilde said ‘to win back my youth, there is nothing I wouldn’t do — except take exercise, get up early, or be a useful member of the community’, writes…

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Jan 2018

Front Page Psychiatry journals Teenagers

Are we in danger of endorsing teen depression?

In my work as a school psychotherapist, I have been alarmed by the increasing number of students coming to me because they are experiencing difficulties in their personal life. Teenage depression…

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Jan 2018

Adult Mental Health Front Page

Learning Points: If you make one resolution, be kinder to yourself

New Year, new you, right? But what if I told you that most of the resolutions you will make this year are designed to fail so that you can achieve…

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Nov 2017

Education

We have to look at the points system and question the impact it is having on our children

Thomas Kinsella has a wonderful poem called, ‘Model School Inchicore.’ In the poem Kinsella explores the notion that the old traditional educational system of Ireland shrank creativity rather than promoted…

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Nov 2017

Comments on society

Equal treatment is at the heart of a healthy society

It’s time we stand up for how women are treated in society, writes Richard Hogan And so this is Christmas, and what have we done this year? In the Chinese calendar,…