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This post is by Dr. Stan Kutcher, Chair in Adolescent Mental Health and the Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre in Mental Health Policy and Training at Dalhousie University. \u00a0 It is from the <\/em>Trafaigar Castle School Blog Post dated Feb. 21, 2018<\/em><\/p>\n

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Fostering Community<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Mental health does not<\/em> equal happiness.\u00a0 Those were not the words I expected to hear from Dr. Stan Kutcher, Chair in Adolescent Mental Health and the Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre in Mental Health Policy and Training at Dalhousie University.\u00a0 Dr. Kutcher spent the day at Trafalgar Castle last week, working with a group of teachers and counselors from independent schools across Ontario, and then in the evening, speaking to our community.\u00a0 His words and the directness of his delivery surprised me.\u00a0 But as he continued to talk and share insight as someone working in the trenches with families, educators, and the health care system, his words began to make sense and resonate clearly.\u00a0 The problems our children and teens are facing today, according to Kutcher, are particular to Western society.\u00a0 In order to find solutions, we first need to understand how our parenting, our present-day beliefs, and our modern-day culture are impacting children\u2019s mental health and overall well-being.\u00a0 In other words, it\u2019s less about taking a look at our children, and more about taking a look at ourselves.<\/p>\n

At first glance, things are not looking good when it comes to child and adolescent mental health in Ontario.\u00a0 Between 2006 and 2014[1]<\/a>, the rate of outpatient physician visits for mental health concerns grew by 25%.\u00a0 Emergency room visits rose by 53%, and the rate of hospitalization for mental health and addiction issues increased by 56%.\u00a0 Our schools, our community service providers, our emergency rooms, our hospitals \u2013 every part of the system is stretched and struggling to keep up with growing mental health needs.<\/p>\n

Admittedly, there is no quick fix.\u00a0 But according to Kutcher, simply improving our mental health literacy would go a long way to deescalating the panic and reducing some of the problem.\u00a0 It\u2019s not enough to have mental health awareness.\u00a0 We also need to be literate in mental health, and that includes understanding four key components:\u00a0 knowing how to achieve and maintain good mental health, understanding mental health disorders and the treatments that are available, reducing stigma, and teaching people how to access help when needed.<\/p>\n

One of the biggest challenges we face is the misconception that positive feelings denote good mental health while negative feelings indicate a problem or disorder.\u00a0 This strictly Western phenomenon, says Kutcher, is leaving parents (and by extension their children) susceptible to the idea that there\u2019s something wrong with them if they\u2019re sad, or disappointed, or upset.\u00a0 Instead of teaching them that life is often hard, that negative emotions are a normal response to difficult situations, and that adversity breeds resilience, we have begun pathologizing typical experiences by too quickly throwing out labels.\u00a0 \u201cInstead of unhappy, disappointed, or discouraged, the word depression is used.\u00a0 Instead of worried, concerned, or nervous, the word anxiety is used,\u201d says Kutcher[2]<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0What children need is an opportunity to embrace life\u2019s challenges and all the uncomfortable emotions that go along with them.\u00a0 They need to learn that strategies are available to help them deal with problems independently, that they are capable of coping, and that it gets easier every time they pick themselves up and dust themselves off.\u00a0 And most of all, according to Kutcher, they need to be allowed to deal with these difficulties with increasing independence. \u00a0READ MORE—><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the biggest challenges we face is the misconception that positive feelings denote good mental health while negative feelings indicate a problem or disorder.\u00a0 This strictly Western phenomenon, says Kutcher, is leaving parents (and by extension their children) susceptible to the idea that there\u2019s something wrong with them if they\u2019re sad, or disappointed, or upset.\u00a0 Instead of teaching them that life is often hard, that negative emotions are a normal response to difficult situations, and that adversity breeds resilience, we have begun pathologizing typical experiences by too quickly throwing out labels.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":3742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[64],"class_list":["post-3740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hope-and-encouragement","tag-feelings"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nFresh Hope for Mental Health - 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