Mental Health Information
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Why Getting Your Hands Dirty Might Be One of the Best Things You Can Do For Your Mental Health
While gardening has long been valued as a peaceful hobby, recent research has moved gardening from the "leisure" category into a legitimate mental health clinical intervention. Organizations ranging from Texas A&M University (2024) to PubMed-indexed meta-analyses (2025) have highlighted that nature-based activities are an effective, science-backed form of therapy for mental well-being. Whether you’re tending to an expansive backyard or a few herbs on a windowsill, here’s how the act of growing plants reshapes your brain and body.
Feeling and Expressing Anger
Many things can cause or provoke anger in people. The feeling of anger is an acceptable emotion. The expression of anger is where we can get into trouble if it is done in an unhealthy, destructive manner. This article identifies underlying issues that may fuel anger and steps to begin to address angry feelings in a healthy and productive way.
Promoting Scientific Understandings of Autism
Psychologists, Physicians, Scientists and Autism Advocacy Groups have issued numerous statements addressing false, unproven, and misleading information about autism. There have been recent claims from public officials who are not researchers, doctors or experts in autism who are erroneously and recklessly linking autism to vaccines, acetaminophen, and environmental toxins. These links are not causal and are not true. This rhetoric is causing harm and our team at Clarity Psychological is invested in promoting accurate, science-backed information about autism to protect and support our autistic clients, their families, and our community.
Suicide Prevention Fact Sheet
Know the Facts and Know What to Do. Suicide is an unsettling topic for many people, yet it is important to discuss. Suicide is the second leading cause of death among 10–24-year-olds. Over the pandemic, suicide attempts increased nationally among all age groups.
Technology and Teens
Our modern-day challenge is helping our youth learn the self-discipline and discernment necessary to appropriately engage both on and off-line to form strong relationships with people and the world around them. This fact sheet describes the debate around and problems with technology overuse among teens and the warning signs that technology may be a problem for your teen.
Tips for Parenting Anxious Children
Practical tips to help your child reduce stress and gain control over anxiety. Children's experiences of anxiety and distress are real and powerful, even if they are triggered by issues that adults may find trivial. A child or teen's anxiety can be managed by showing sensitivity and a genuine interest in helping them in the moment with these tips.
Social Emotional Learning (SEL)
What is social emotional learning, why is it important, and how can parents help facilitate it in their children? Dr. Williams-Nickelson provides an overview of social-emotional learning and specific skills that can be nurtured and developed to facilitate SEL growth.
