Sentences with phrase «conversation about their illness»

Not exact matches

While nonprofits like To Write Love on Her Arms and Hope for the Day are doing real, measurable good in the area of mental health, there's just something about being at the center of pop culture that turns an issue like mental illness from something we would rather avoid in polite conversation to something that demands to be discussed.

«Seb Baird and I founded Mind Your Head almost two years ago to try to bring conversations about mental illness from the clinical to the social sphere.

I was happy to meet Dave's wife, and a meaningful conversation ensued about parents, illness, children, and more.

While rotating through the wards, he discovered that he liked working with the elderly the most, because his conversations with them about illness and death were refreshingly candid.

By adding this new feature, we hope that this will open up the conversation about mental illness and break down the stigma that surrounds it.

«I think the more people vocalize what they're going through — their experience or just simply educating themselves so that they can learn more about what they're talking about — that's going to be the key to creating a conversation about mental illness and making it more understood.

He overhears a crucial conversation with the doctor about the farmer's terminal illness:

Some of the topics include childhood grief, living with mental illness and even a frank conversations about sex.

I think one way to demystify this romanticization is to have frank conversations with young people about the prominent role that mental illness actually plays in completed suicides.

Bell's OK let's talk campaign once again misses the mark completely in the conversation about mental illness and awareness and just reinforces the company's corportate greed.

Mental Health Week brings awareness Mental Health Week seeks to bring awareness to this «invisible illness», to reduce the stigma around it and to encourage conversations about mental illness and mental health.

The opening plenary provides context from the three preceding World Conferences, (Australia 2009, Norway 2010, Vancouver, 2012), a report on global findings from the Children of Parents with a Mental Illness (COPMI) world survey and activity, and a unique example of how one of those findings is changing the conversation about parental mental health.

Similarly, conversations with your child about mental illness can help them make sense of their experience.

Although the videos are aimed at young people, they can also be used by parents who may wish to start a conversation with their children about mental illness.

The adaptations to the Mental Health Treatment Plans provide an opportunity for GPs to initiate conversations about parenting and child and family needs in the context of parental mental illness.

The parents and young people interviewed for this project stated they wanted to talk to their GP about the impact of the mental illness on all of the family members however, they relied on the GP to initiate this conversation.

So why, when we talk about Indigenous health, does the conversation so often focus on the «illness and injury» part of the definition, and not the «free from».

If your children are acting out because of a recent event (death, illness, or divorce), engaging in unhealthy behaviors (risk - taking, being physically or verbally abusive), or you and your co-parent are strugglingto have effective conversations about your children, you may need to seek the guidance of a family counselor.