It’s become quite a cliché to hear people talk about how our minds can affect our health, but this can have the unintended effect of people just brushing off this idea as New Age mumbo-jumbo. The reality is that a great deal of our well-being is linked to our state of mind!
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Anxiousness over the future is something that is common and pretty much everyone has to deal with it in some capacity or another. It’s called anticipatory anxiety and is seen as a common response to uncertainty over what is to come. While it can sometimes feel overwhelming and uncomfortable, some degree of worry over the future can actually help us to better prepare ourselves for the uncertainty. Worry about the future can be an issue once it becomes excessive.
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a disorder that affects up to 11% of children between the ages of 4 – 17 years old and is more common than many people believe. While some people may see this as a disorder that just affects children, at least 4% of adults have been diagnosed with ADHD. It is believed that many more adults have simply not been diagnosed as diagnosis for ADHD was not as common in the past. ADHD is best diagnosed early, sometimes as young as 4 years old, so the child can receive the support they need to manage it. Simply waiting for it to improve or disappear over time will likely just mean the child grows up having to deal with their issues by themselves.
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Play Therapy is an intervention strategy to help children safely communicate and express their feelings and thoughts naturally in order to deal with trauma, loss, delayed development, and other developmental and social issues. Play therapy is fun, free-flowing, non-directed, and effective. Play therapy allows people who are experiencing emotional or behavioural issues to open up their emotions in the safe space of the ‘playroom’, where they are allowed to face their thoughts and emotions nonverbally.
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There is a tendency for people to assume that a child with poor attention span and an inability to focus has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). It’s easy to see why people may automatically jump to this conclusion.
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Throughout our lives, we make decisions, big and small. These could deal with what we eat to what career field to go into, and who we marry and build a life with. There is a tendency to think we’re doing all this by ourselves for ourselves, but we may not have really thought about how much of our life trajectory and decisions are done for us by other people. This can lead us to doing things that don’t always align with what we truly want for ourselves.
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On 22 March 2025, CAE will be conducting the third in a series of our free webinars available for educators, parents, and caregivers who are looking to understand more about the children under their care and the challenges and opportunities that they may face. The third webinar in this series will be particularly relevant to parents of young children as we focus on teaching children how to manage academic stress!
Academic pressure can impact children from an early age, affecting their confidence and mental health. This webinar will equip parents with strategies to support their children in managing school-related stress. Focusing on building healthy routines, developing problem-solving skills, and promoting a balanced lifestyle, parents will learn to create a supportive environment that enables their children to thrive academically without compromising their mental wellbeing.
We will explore these topics and more to help you build a stable base for your child’s future well-being. This webinar will be conducted by Donus Loh.
Donus Loh:
Masters of Clinical Neuroscience,
Masters of Science by Research in Psychology,
Bachelor of Science (Psychology)
The webinar will be conducted via Zoom.
The holidays may be a very rough, chaotic time for children with special needs. There are a lot of non-routine activities happening all around them all at once, with familiar and unfamiliar friends and families showing up. For many children with special needs, this can be excess stimuli.
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The holiday seasons are time for festivities, family get-togethers, meeting friends, and just having a good time. With such merry mood and holiday spirits everywhere, some may not realise that there is such a thing as the holiday blues. It’s not an urban legend or a tall tale, it is a real problem that people go through during the holidays, and it can be very serious. It even has a name: seasonal affective disorder (SAD).
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year: holidays and parties, presents and get-togethers, and festivals with many things to do. What happens is that we get busy during the season, and do not notice when others around us are alone, depressed, and needing help. They may be invisible to us, due to the business of the year, but their need is still real.
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