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The Podcasts section includes both episodes from podcasts as well as links to shows that relate to various mental health topics.
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ADHD & Behavioral Disorders
ADHD Experts Podcast
Source: ADDitude
Description: Leading ADHD experts give real-life answers to questions submitted by ADD adults and parents raising children with attention deficit disorder across a range of topics covering symptoms, school, work, and family life.
ADHD Parenting Podcast
Source: Smarter Parenting
Description: On this parenting podcast, join ADHD parenting coach Siope Kinikini as he helps you better parent a child with ADHD. As someone with ADHD, he understands what your child is going through and the challenges that families face.
All Things ADHD and ADHD 365 Podcasts
Source: Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD)
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Anxiety & Depression
Like You: Mindfulness for Kids
Source: Like You Podcast
Description: Like You is a mindfulness podcast for kids. It uses breathing, affirmations, music, and imagination to explore feelings, relieve anxiety, encourage self-esteem, and grow empathy, all while having fun!
Peace Out Podcast
Source: Small Talk
Description: Mindfulness stories that help children calm down and learn social-emotional skills by guiding them through visualization and breathing exercises focused on kindness and fun science facts. Perfect for parents or teachers who want to teach mindfulness and self-regulation.
The Anxious Child Podcast
Source: Stephen Quinlan
Description: According to NIMH, one in three teens has an anxiety disorder. For kids, this is estimated at one in ten. What is going on? How can we help them? This podcast is hosted by Stephen Quinlan, a psychotherapist with over 20 years of experience and a specialization in working with kids and parents who have anxiety. Join Stephen as he sits down with some of the best experts in the field to try to help kids as best we can.
The Best Day Yet: Affirmations, Meditations, and Mindfulness for Kids
Source: Best Day Yet
Description: Leads affirmations, adventures, mindfulness tools for calmer, kinder, more confident kids.
The Child Anxiety FAQ
Source: Dawn Friedman, MSEd
Description: Each week this podcasts answers your Frequently Asked Questions about child and teen anxiety.
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Autism
Autism in the Black Podcast
Source: Autism in the Black
Description: The Autism in Black Podcast focuses on all things Autism and the Black Parent experience.
Autism Parenting Secrets
Source: Autism Parenting Secrets
Description: Are you a parent of a child with Autism? Are you ready to rise above the diagnosis? Each week on Autism Parenting Secrets, we are going to share how you can rise up and become the parent you need to be.
Parenting Autism
Source: Parenting Autism
Description: Your hosts are Chris and Sandy Colter, the parents of Bryce, who share their autism journey with stories about their nine year old son who was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder at age two. The podcast is designed to connect with families who have been touched by autism and people who want to learn more about their world. You'll learn all about how they deal with day to day challenges and how you might apply it to your own life.
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Bullying & Cyberbullying
Please refer to the Plano ISD Guide for Addressing Bullying and Harassment Concerns for more information about policies and procedures related to bullying and harassment.
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Digital Media
Digital Vigilance and Our Kids
Source: Shrinking It Down: Mental Health Made Simple
Description: We’ve reached a point in time where most of our kids have grown up with digital media as a way of life. Social media, instant viral news, e-learning, digital surveillance – it’s all here to stay. And it’s not all bad. But there are some legitimate concerns about how it’s impacting the mental health and safety of young people.
In this episode of Shrinking It Down, we revisit some of the most helpful conversations we’ve had about digital media’s impact on our kids and teens. From issues related to body image and gaming disorder, to ways we can help our young digital natives become more digitally vigilant, Gene, Khadijah, and other experts share practical advice for every caring adult.Social Media and Its Influence On Our Kids
Source: Connected Parenting
Description: Social media has an undeniable influence on our kids and for this reason I thought exploring its addictive nature, its impact on young minds, and why setting limits is crucial would be a good place to visit on this weeks podcast episode. Social media isn't going away, so it's essential to strike a balance, providing guidance while allowing our children to also gain valuable digital experience.
The Truth About Social Media: How It Affects Kids' Mental Health
Source: Raising Good Humans
Description: In this eye-opening episode, Imran Ahmed, founder of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) explores the grave impact of social media on children’s mental health. The conversation spans the dangers lurking on various platforms, and underscores the importance of shame-free dialogue between parents and their kids. As we navigate a world where digital interaction is unavoidable, Ahmed offers invaluable insights and actionable advice for safeguarding our children’s mental health in the digital age.
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Emotional Regulation
Like You: Mindfulness for Kids
Source: Like You Podcast
Description: Like You is a mindfulness podcast for kids. It uses breathing, affirmations, music, and imagination to explore feelings, relieve anxiety, encourage self-esteem, and grow empathy, all while having fun!
Peace Out Podcast
Source: Small Talk
Description: Mindfulness stories that help children calm down and learn social-emotional skills by guiding them through visualization and breathing exercises focused on kindness and fun science facts. Perfect for parents or teachers who want to teach mindfulness and self-regulation.
The Best Day Yet: Affirmations, Meditations, and Mindfulness for Kids
Source: Best Day Yet
Description: Leads affirmations, adventures, mindfulness tools for calmer, kinder, more confident kids.
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Grief & Loss
Essentials: Supporting Children through Bereavement and Grief in Schools
Source: School Behavioral Secrets
Description: The death of a close family member can deeply affect a student's emotional well-being, leaving educators wondering how to create a supportive environment for students experiencing grief. In the latest Essentials episode of School Behaviour Secrets we join Justine Wilson from the Edward's Trust to discuss practical approaches for teachers and school staff to effectively address grief in the classroom.
Grief Is My Side Hustle Podcast
Source: Meghan Riordan Jarvis, MA, LCSW
Description: Trauma therapist, writer and podcast host Meghan, found herself on the receiving end of the same treatments she used with her own clients after the death of both her parents within two years of each other. Meghan hosts a weekly discussion with guests who carry personal loss, professional expertise, and a belief that talking about grief and loss helps provide needed support in a world that finds the topic all kinds of awkward.
Grief Out Loud Podcast
Source: Dougy Center
Description: Remember the last time you tried to talk about grief and suddenly everyone left the room? Grief Out Loud is opening up this often avoided conversation because grief is hard enough without having to go through it alone. We bring you a mix of personal stories, tips for supporting children, teens, and yourself, and interviews with bereavement professionals. Platitude and cliché-free, we promise! Grief Out Loud is hosted by Jana DeCristofaro and produced by The Dougy Center for Grieving Children & Families in Portland, Oregon.
Helping Kids Manage Grief and Loss
Source: Ask Lisa: The Psychology of Parenting
Description: "If the pandemic is about anything, it's about loss,” says Dr. Lisa Damour. Grief can come in different forms - from losing a loved one, to mourning the loss of senior year in high school, to not getting into your favorite college. How can you tell if your child is grieving and what can you do to help? Lisa and Reena examine how to support our kids as they cope with loss. Reena shares how a bouncy castle rented on the morning of her grandfather’s funeral helped her family deal with loss. Lisa discusses insights from Sigmund Freud - written over one hundred years ago - that can be helpful as we find our way through the pandemic.
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Human Trafficking
Child Trafficking in Your Texas Community
Source: The Learning Lab School Safety Podcast
Description: In this Learning Lab episode, host Celina Bley sits down with Debbie Solcher from Children's Advocacy Centers of Texas and Janet Kasper from the Office of the Texas Governor's Child Sex Trafficking Team to discuss child trafficking. The trio cover the types and warning signs of child trafficking, who is at risk for being trafficked, prevention efforts for parents and schools, and resources aimed at preventing trafficking and supporting those who are being trafficked.
Ending Human Trafficking Podcast
Source: The Global Center for Women and Justice
Description: The Global Center for Women and Justice launched the Ending Human Trafficking podcast in April 2011 and it has passed the 160 podcast milestone as of January 2018. Our mantra is Study the Issues. Be a voice. Make a difference. We believe that if you do not study first, you may say or do the wrong thing. The National Family and Youth Services Clearinghouse promoted EHT as “a good way to get up to speed on human trafficking”. Our audience includes students, community leaders, and even government leaders. EHT listeners come from all corners of the world, which accomplishes our mission of building a global community that works together to end human exploitation.
Human Trafficking 101
Source: Keeping It Real: Conversations with Jillian Michaels
Description: Expert Andrea Wojtak joins in this episode to help us safeguard ourselves, our community, and subsequently be proactive in protecting the most vulnerable.
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Mental Health
Mental Illness Happy Hour
Source: Paul Gilmartin
Description: The Mental Illness Happy Hour is a weekly online podcast that interviews comedians, artists, friends, and the occasional doctor. Each episode explores mental illness, trauma, addiction and negative thinking.
Shrinking It Down: Mental Health Made Simple
Source: The Clay Center for Young Healthy Minds
Description: "Shrinking It Down" highlights the fact that youth mental health is anything but simple! Child & adolescent psychiatrists Dr. Gene Beresin and Dr. Khadijah Booth Watkins help parents and other caring adults to navigate tough questions about child and teen mental health. From depression and learning disorders, to digital media and societal concerns, Shrinking It Down covers it all.
The Happiness Lab Podcast
Source: Dr. Laurie Santos
Description: Based on the psychology course she teaches at Yale — the most popular class in the university’s 300-year history — The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos will take you through the latest scientific research and share some surprising and inspiring stories that will change the way you think about happiness.
Unlocking Us Podcast
Source: Brené Brown
Description: Conversations that unlock the deeply human part of who we are, so that we can live, love, parent, and lead with a whole heart.
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Parenting & Healthy Relationships
Good Inside with Dr. Becky
Source: Dr. Becky Kennedy
Description: Weekly parenting podcast to hear real parents’ questions answered directly by Dr. Becky.
Mindful Parenting
Source: Mindful Mama Mentor
Description: Mindful Parenting Podcast: Rasing Kind, Confident Kids Without Losing Your Cool | Parenint Strategies for Big Emotions & More
The Motherly Modcast
Source: Motherly
Description: The Motherly Modcast features honest conversations about modern motherhood with inspiring leaders.
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Substance Use
My Child & Addiction: Parent-to-Parent Podcast Series
Source: Caron Treatment Centers
Description: The My Child & Addiction podcast series features parents who share how they are coping with the challenges of parenting a child with Substance Use Disorder. The group includes mothers and fathers — some of whom are in recovery, some who are married and others who are not - with children in their teens through adulthood. Since the series began in 2017, the mothers and fathers of the group have been joined at each meeting by a Caron Treatment Centers professional to provide invaluable clinical guidance. The group has tackled dozens of topics related to coping with addiction and the impact on the entire family.
Vaping and its Impact on Teen Mental Health (Episode)
Source: The Learning Lab School Safety Podcast
Description: This episode features Leanne Foell, a mental health therapist and teen advocate, who treats young people who are addicted to vaping and other drugs or who are struggling with their mental health. Leanne discusses why addiction affects teens differently than adults, the difference between vaping nicotine and THC on the teen brain, what a vaping addiction may look like, tips for teen who are trying to quit, how youth can be a supportive friend to someone who is quitting vaping, and the difference between good mental health and bad mental health.
When the Opioid Crisis Arrives at your Doorstep (Episode)
Source: The Learning Lab School Safety Podcast
Description: In this Learning Lab episode, host Stephanie Peterson sits down with Jeri Skrocki, Head of District Safety and Security in Hays CISD, to discuss the impact of the fentanyl crisis on Hays CISD and the surrounding community.
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Suicide Prevention & Nonsuicidal Self-Injury (NSSI)
Suicide Prevention 2024 (Episode)
Source: Mental Health Matters
Description: In this episode from the Mental Health Matters Podcast, Dr. Burton and Liz Lange discuss suicide prevention and how to help someone in a crisis. They also discuss why people back from bringing up suicide as well as World Suicide Prevention Day.
The "S" Word: A Podcast about Suicide Prevention
Source: Sara Kohlbeck
Voices for Suicide Prevention
Source: Ohio Suicide Prevention Foundation
Description: This podcasts talks openly about the why and the solutions to suicide prevention. This vital conversation is brought to you by the Ohio Suicide Prevention Foundation as they highlight experts, counselors, clinicians, advocates and ordinary people doing extraordinary things in the name of saving lives.
Raising Joy Podcast
Source: Cook Children's
Description: Raising Joy is part of Cook Children’s Joy Campaign, which aims to encourage hope and resilience among children and teens. Cook Children’s Health Care System is located in Fort Worth, Texas and has seen the mental and emotional toll the COVID-19 pandemic has taken on children and their families. In this podcast, hosts Wini King and Dr. Kristen Pyrc explore topics of anxiety, stress, depression, trauma and suicide in order to bring hope and needed resources to struggling children and families.
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Teen Dating Violence
Angela Hayde - Survivor of Teen Dating Violence (Episode)
Source: When Dating Hurts
Description: This episode interview Angela Hayde and hears her dating violence story. In captivating detail. She tells what it was like to be dating a young man who was abusive to her when she was in high school and in college.
Recognizing and Responding to Teen Dating Violence (Episode)
Source: The Learning Lab School Safety Podcast
Description: In this Learning Lab episode, host Stephanie Peterson sits down with Randy Randolph, Senior Prevention Coordinator Expect Respect (SAFE Alliance), to discuss the signs of teen dating violence and how to respond to it.
The Unspoken ACE: Teen Dating Violence (Episode)
Source: Outliers in Education from CEE
Description: We talk about ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) at school. We take bullying head on. But there's one especially treacherous ACE that afflicts as many as 1 in 3 teens from which we shy almost completely - teen dating violence and sexual abuse.
Abuse survivor-turned-activist and national touring expert Ashley Bendiksen has made it her mission to bring these widespread and uncomfortable issues out of the darkness in order to shine her light on a welcome alternative - teaching kids how to establish and maintain healthy relationships. -
Trauma
Childhood Trauma with Dr. Bruce Perry (Episode)
Source: Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson
Description: Dr. Bruce Perry joins Dr. Hanson and Forrest to discuss the incredible impact of childhood experiences, the fuzzy distinction between trauma and stress, and what we can do to heal from those experiences.
One in Ten Podcast
Source: National Children's Alliance
Description: One in Ten is brought to you by National Children's Alliance, the largest network of care centers in the U.S. serving child victims of abuse. The host is Teresa Huizar, NCA's CEO and a national expert on child abuse intervention and trauma treatment.
Trauma Rewired
Source: Jennifer Wallace
Description: The podcast that teaches you about your nervous system, how trauma lives in the body, and what you can do to heal.
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