Mental Health In Schools For Troubled Kids,

National Public Radio (NPR) highlighted one Maryland elementary school that offers kids a 12 week training in how to manage emotions, handle stress and improve interpersonal relationships. Created by psychologist Mary Alvord, Resilience Builder Program is designed to help students who are struggling with trauma or cognitive disorders by using group therapy. Resilience Builder Program teaches young students techniques for handling tough emotions, like visualizing a remote control for thoughts so they can switch from negative to happier feelings. Overall, research provides preliminary support for the effectiveness of the Resilience Builder Program® with children with ADHD and anxiety disorder for improving social, emotional, and behavioral functioning according to multiple informants and in multiple environments. To listen to the NPR story, Click Here . . .