By Sharon Noguchi Source: http://www.mercurynews.com/health A popular and accomplished Los Altos High student received a parent’s text message at school last year, to come home to talk about her grades. The student and star athlete had earned all A’s — except one D. She asked to be excused from English class to go to the bathroom, […]
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How do we teach our kids to cope with stress?
January 8, 2014 
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By Pamela Garfield, LCSW Site Director at Gunn High School Our kids just got through the end of the semester and finals. Finals, holidays, college applications and the many other pressures of this time of year can be very challenging. Sometimes life just takes over and we have to go into “survival mode” to get […]
Continue readingAn Experts Advice on Teen Anxiety
March 1, 2013 0 Comments
Original source: The Globe and Mail Expert: Dr. Alexa Bagnell in Halifax This article is a response to submitted reader questions to The Globe and Mail after a Toronto District School Board survey revealed high levels of anxiety in teenagers. The following answers by Dr. Alexa Bagnell are responses to condensed and edited questions by […]
Continue readingBlog Series: Nutrition and Mental Health – The Importance of Sharing a Family Meal
September 5, 2012 1 Comment
Article by Philippe Rey, Psy.D. Executive Director of ACS I would like to begin this series by quoting Marion Cunningham, an advocate of home cooking who just recently died in her 90’s: “Too many families seldom sit down together; it’s gobble and go… eating food on the run, reheating it in relays in the microwave […]
Continue reading From the Inside-Life As An ACS Intern
February 13, 2012 0 Comments
By: Ildiko Ran On-Campus Counseling Program Intern at Menlo-Atherton High School “I feel so much better that I got all that off my chest. I can go back to class now” – said one of my clients after a session when she unloaded the overwhelming stress that surrounds her everyday life. She keeps up the […]
Continue readingNew Study: Blogging Can Help Teens with Social Anxiety
January 10, 2012 2 Comments
We have all heard the phrase “Get it off your chest,” encouraging one to talk about what is troubling or concerning them. With the advent of the computer age and all of the social media that has followed, this phrase has become much easier to follow, on a regular basis. Sites like Facebook and Twitter […]
Continue readingSome Tips for Getting Through the Holidays With a Troubled Teen
December 23, 2011 0 Comments
By Ronni J. Gillenson ACS Program Director, On-Campus Counseling Progra Just because there is ‘holiday cheer’ in the air doesn’t mean that life for a teen has changed all that much. In fact, the holidays can be a trying time for them. During the season that everyone is to be happy and giving, this could […]
Continue readingLiving With a Teenager
September 22, 2011 0 Comments
Living with a Teenager by Robyn Alagona, MFT It can be difficult to predict daily life with a teenager. Teenagers have a reputation for being unpredictable, capricious, even inflexible. As an adult, living with an adolescent, it can feel frustrating, anxiety-producing and worrisome to experience the erratic changes teens go through in a week, a […]
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