Pandemic or no pandemic, when children are headed back to school it can be quite stressful for them and their parents.
Child Anxiety
At Home in CT: Mental Health During COVID
Summer’s Most Stressful Three Words: ‘Back to School’
For students of all ages, and even their parents, hearing the three little words ‘back to school’ can provoke mixed emotions of excitement and dread, or even stress and anxiety.
Therapy Can Prevent Anxiety in Children, Study Says
Children of anxious parents are at increased risk for developing the disorder. Yet that does not need to be the case, according to new research by UConn Health psychologist Golda Ginsburg.
Did Race and Affluence Factor into Mental Care of Sandy Hook Shooter?
A new report asks whether the race and affluence of Adam Lanza’s family influenced decisions about how to care for his mental health problems in the years before he committed the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.
Report: Lanza Preoccupied with Violence
Adam Lanza had not left his room for three months before the Sandy Hook shooting, according to a state agency report.
Newtown Shooter: Report Finds Failure to Address ‘a Cascade’ of Problems
There were many red flags in Adam Lanza’s life in the years before he killed 20 elementary students in Sandy Hook, according to a report released Friday by Connecticut’s child advocate.
Report: Yale’s Recommendations for Support of Newtown Shooter Largely Unheeded
The gunman in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings showed an early preoccupation with violence, became increasingly isolated, and had been diagnosed with autism, anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder — but he received minimal treatment, according to a report released Friday.
Child Advocate Report: Yale’s Psych Recommendations for Lanza Weren’t Sent or Included in Ed Records
Even though the parents of the gunman who took the lives of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School allowed doctors from Yale to share information with the school system, not all of the information was transmitted, according to a new report Friday from the Office of the Child Advocate.
Report: Medical, School Professionals Missed Chances to Help Sandy Hook Shooter
Medical professionals and school staff missed multiple opportunities to help Adam Lanza with his severe emotional and psychiatric disorders before he burst into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012, and shot dead 20 children and six educators, a Connecticut state review panel has concluded.