Roots and Wings

Mental Health and Youth; the Therapy Available and Conversation Starters for the Adults in their Lives

January 30, 2020 Jonquil Newland
Roots and Wings
Mental Health and Youth; the Therapy Available and Conversation Starters for the Adults in their Lives
Show Notes

Nearly 20 percent of youth between 13 and 18-years-old experience severe mental disorders in a given year. About half the number of children with a mental illness do not receive any services or help. While data and numbers tend to focus on older youth and teens, young children and be heavily impacted as well. On this episode the supervisor for the Pediatric Therapy Program at Mental Health Cooperative, Brianna Grant, sits down with Roots and Wings host, Jonquil Newland, to discuss therapy options available as well as tips for mental health conversation starters between adults and the youth in their lives.