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Jul 2020
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Episode 3 - Understanding mental health ...

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Kim reviews the difference between the two most common diagnoses of youth, anxiety and depression, and how presentations of these change during a pandemic! Kim shares some concrete ways in which you can support your students to make connections with counsellors and other mental health workers!

Stay tuned for PART 2 - where Kim will discuss the effects of grief and loss and how that relates to the pandemic! And why it may be too soon in some places to ask kids to go back to school... Subscribe to the blog for weekly updates at thecontemporaryeducator.com! 

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