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Wichita State University’s Psychology Clinic is offering a free 12-session program for adults coping with depression. ”We are looking for as many people as we can get,” said Rob Zettle, the psychology professor at WSU who is conducting the clinic. No drugs are prescribed, Zettle said, but people who are currently on depression medication can participate . . . Participants will be screened and evaluated for the program. One-on-one sessions will then be scheduled. For more information or to schedule a screening evaluation, contact Zettle at 316-978-3081 or robert.zettle@wichita.edu. [via]

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Arcadio Morales, one of six residence deans at Stanford University, has lived in an apartment in the campus dorms for 15 years, often fielding late-night phone calls from students about everything from Frisbee injuries to mid-term anxiety to alcohol poisoning. He says some arriving freshmen have always packed emotional baggage along with their laptops and books. But the mix of problems he’s called to weigh in on has become more serious in recent years.

“Early on,” he says, “most of the issues that surfaced were roommate issues, compatibility issues.” He still gets that sort of thing, along with the calls from “very involved” parents who want him, for example, to go down the hall and wake up their son or daughter. But these days, Morales is getting more calls about students in need of substantial psychiatric support.

“We’re getting students that wouldn’t have been here 10 years ago,” Morales says, “because they’re on antidepressants or antipsychotic medication, and they’re functioning fairly well.” But it can be a big challenge for colleges when these students have crises, he says.

National epidemiological studies confirm that what Morales is seeing is happening on campuses nationwide, irrespective of the type of college or its size …

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Quoting beavertonvalleytimes.com:

Some kids beg not to go to school. Beaverton mom Marjie Braun Knudsen knows this struggle all too well. Of her four children, two have dealt with issues related to social anxiety. That’s why she partnered with Dr. Jenne R. Henderson, a children’s psychologist, to write the book, “BRAVE: Be Ready and Victory’s Easy.” The book follows a fictional fifth-grader named Danny as he deals with his own trials of social anxiety and models coping strategies to make life seem a lot less overwhelming. Knudsen says she decided to write the book—which came out last year—because when her daughter was struggling with similar issues, she didn’t find any resources that met her needs . . . After realizing that she wanted to write the book, Knudsen starting talking with Henderson, her children’s doctor, about co-authoring the story. They spent several months going through the draft, switching off writing duties almost sentence by sentence (luckily, they have similar writing voices). After the book was completed, they shopped it around to various publishers, who told them to change aspects of the completed book. The authors decided to go a different route. “We realized that if we wanted it to stay how we wanted it, we’d have to publish it ourselves,” Knudsen says.

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“BRAVE” is now available at:

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Amazon

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