
Good Friends; Strong Families The Podcast
Mental Health As Prevention
<p>Forty percent of high school students report persistent sadness or hopelessness, and that word persistent should stop all of us in our tracks. We keep raising awareness about teen mental health, but the numbers don’t magically improve, so we want to talk about the next step: prevention skills that actually live inside a family’s day-to-day life.<br/><br/>We start by defining mental health using the CDC framework: emotional, psychological, and social well-being that affects how we think, feel, relate to others, handle stress, and make decisions. Then we simplify it into four trainable areas you can prac...

