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AI & CHILDRENS MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS

 Hello  AI is a complex powerful tool changing our lives quickly and it leaving us feeling like we have lack of autonomy for ourselves and our children's future. This is a great read for parents and professionals working with children to understand the overall effects AI has on children's overall mental health, well being and future. AI Risks to Children: A Comprehensive Guide for Parents & Educators  Here is one of may important messages from the article; Key Messages to Share with Young People AI can be useful, but it can also be wrong, biased or unsafe. Some people will use AI responsibly. Others will not. Critical thinking is vital. Do not trust something just because it looks real, sounds confident or feels personal. AI should not replace human relationships. Your own thinking really matters. Struggle, effort and practice are part of learning. Every generation faces big challenges. Understanding AI is one of yours. Learning about AI - and about society, psycholo...

JBU JOURNAL PROMPTS

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Creative Space is a place you can create and where you feel safe to explore your inner self and delve into your feelings without any judgment. Feeling safe is the beginning of the healing process, the core, where growth and transformation begin. Find a safe place where you can have privacy and make it into a daily practice for yourself. Provide a container for your self care rituals where you allot yourself a time, like each morning before I start you start your day dedicate 30 minutes to writing in your journal, listening to some affirmations, doing stretches or breathing exercises. Whatever time allotment you decided can also help you to feel safe that this reflective practice has an end and it can help if you are feeling too overwhelmed. Writing is a tool that can help build access to exploring parts of your mind you never even knew existed. The end goal is to be able to do some free writing, to write without thinking or even stopping to think. Not thinking about editing or going ba...

Too many Good Reads!!

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 The books I am reading right now so far so GOOD!!! Complex PTSD is life changing, something that ought to be taught in every school when helping people with mental heath!                                                                    Other books I have started to read and I am LOVING; Decolonizing Therapy Jennifer Mulla, PsyD Its Not You Ramani Durvasula PhD What My Bones Know Stephanie Foo

Screen Time & Social media Use Children & Adolescents with Janet Roder

 https://youtu.be/ETJjjY63Tdw?si=uOQuYrvrzIQYDkFa Wonderful podcast episode for families to listen to about the effects that screen time has on child development and helpful strategies on relationship building within the family system, peer relations, power struggles and screen times in the classrooms. The early set of neurobiology and the effects of the brain from infancy and throughout childhood and what is realistic expectations for screens children and highly addictive screens.

Just Be You Therapy-children, adolescents, & neurodivergent of all ages

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Rosetta Racco, Registered Psychotherapist Children, Adolescents & Neurodivergent of all ages She/Her    Hello, my name is Rosetta Racco, I am a neuro affirming registered psychotherapist for individuals and families. I also identify as neurodivergent myself.  I have extensive experience of working with children, adolescents and autistics of all ages for the last 30 years.        In the last 8 years I have been seeing individuals and families in the capacity of a psychotherapist in my private practice Just Be You Therapy and I  provide treatment sessions, on a one-to-one basis with individuals and families as parent sessions.                                                         Seasonally, I teach at a university as a professor in Early Childhood Trauma and Mental Health, and I have taught...

Opening up a location in EastMount Hamilton ON !

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  Hello everyone happy to announce that I have another location for my private practice Just Be You Therapy for children, adolescents and autistics of all ages in East Hamilton ON.  Please do not hesitate to contact me for any further details email: rosetta@justbeyoutherapy.ca

Breaking The Cycle With Denise East

  BREAKING CYCLES: WORKSHOP | Artpath https://www.artpath360.com/webinar-registration