CMCH senior scientist, Dr. Ron Slaby spoke about school safety at the Middlesex Partnerships For Youths 13th Annual School Safety Summit at Bentley College, in Waltham, Ma.
The conference brought together school safety experts to address the issue of how schools can create safe climates to prevent youth violence.
» See Full Story
When children have asthma that is managed properly, they can lead perfectly normal lives. But Dr. Rich’s video reveals how difficult that management can be due the environments in which they live.
» See Full Story
Dr. Michael Rich, Director of CMCH will speak at this year’s National Arts Centres (NAC) Foundation
Roundtable called Media, Communications and Technology: Healthy Mental Development
for Children
and Youth.
Dr. Rich will join a prominent group of leaders in the medical and social policy
fields, as well as arts supporters and senior public policy makers, to discuss how media and the arts can help
improve mental health for children and youth.
» See Full Story
Some kids are fascinated by fairy tales stories of castles and happy endings. What about the scary parts of the fairy tales, like the cruel stepmother and the evil witch?
According to Dr. David Bickham,
Staff scientist at CMCH, parents should protect their kids from the scary parts of fairy tales because kids are exposed to enough violence in the news and in superhero stories and they are already afraid. He also notes that they process fear differently as they grow older.
» See Full Story