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Mental health and culture are deeply interconnected, as culture plays a significant role in shaping how mental health is understood, experienced, and addressed within a particular society or community. Culture encompasses a range of factors, including beliefs, values, norms, traditions, social systems, and language, which influence the way individuals perceive and respond to mental health …

In several conversations we have had recently on our podcast, the issue of childhood trauma has emerged as the source of many mental health challenges people experience throughout their lives.  It therefore follows that we need to pay very close attention to how we raise children to mitigate instances of childhood trauma and help them …

Childhood trauma refers to experiences that cause significant distress and have a lasting impact on a child’s emotional, psychological, and physical well-being. There are various common causes of childhood trauma, and it’s important to recognize and address them in order to promote healing and well-being for affected children. While this list is not exhaustive, here …

We talk a lot about the need to take care of and protect children’s mental health. But to be effective, we must first understand which needs to address, because children have several critical psychological needs that are important for their overall well-being and healthy development. In this article, we highlight some of these needs, which …