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Mental Health

January 1, 2023 by Riley Jensen

A New Beginning: A Reflection on 2022 and How Things Are Different Going Into 2023

Former teen now adult contributor Riley Jensen shares her struggles with mental health to help raise awareness

December 31, 2022 by Karen Jensen, MLS

An End of Year Reflection: How Keeping My Child Alive Became My Only Goal in 2022, a reflection on parenting a child with mental illness

As 2022 comes to an end, I want to talk with you about teens/young adults and mental health

July 18, 2021 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Sunday Reflections: On the Launch, sending your child to college and letting them be themselves – a guest post by Amianne Bailey

Today we share a guest post about helping a teen deal with anxiety and sending them off to college.

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Christine Lively talks about the mental health impacts of our current year on teens

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March 1, 2020 by Karen Jensen, MLS

A discussion of mental health in the life of teens.

Thinking about 13 Reasons Why: Teens, Mental Health and Media

April 26, 2017 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Please Note: This Post Will Contain Discussions of Triggering Topics and Spoilers for the Book/Show You are probably aware that 13 Reasons Why the book by Jay Asher has been made into a popular Netflix show. And you’ve probably seen a lot of discussion about this show. In fact, if you’re life looks anything like […]

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Sunday Reflections: TRIGGER WARNING – This Post is About Suicide and Why We Shouldn’t Joke About It

October 1, 2016 by Karen Jensen, MLS

TRIGGER WARNING: THIS POST IS ABOUT SUICIDE. I COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND IF YOU CAN’T READ IT. On December 31st of this year, my best friend from high school got online and posted on Facebook: “Happy New Year everyone, have a great year.” A mere twelve hours later his new wife – they had just gotten married […]

#MHYALit Update and January 2016 Launch Schedule

December 17, 2015 by Karen Jensen, MLS

It’s almost 2016. Wait – what? IT’S ALMOST 2016! How did that happen? This month we have been busily plugging away at putting together a January launch schedule for the #MHYALit Discussion. So here’s a little look at what we have coming in 2016. So far, we have about 40 authors, librarians, parents of teens, […]

Sunday Reflections: Exit Strategies, a personal reflection for National Suicide Prevention Week (Trigger Warning)

September 13, 2015 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Trigger Warning: Sexual Abuse and Suicide are discussed in this post The first time I ever thought about it I was in the 8th grade and being abused by someone living in my household. I wrote a will, typing it up on the old fashioned typewriter I had asked for Christmas that year, and folded […]

The #MHYALit Discussion Hub – Mental Health in Young Adult Literature

August 31, 2015 by Karen Jensen, MLS

After our first year of the #SVYALit Project, we decided that we at TLT liked the way the format worked and wanted to use it to discuss other topics of relevance to the life of teens. One of the ideas we discussed was using the format to discuss mental health issues in the life of […]

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