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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.

February 24, 2021 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Helping RevolTeens Fight the Mental Health Crisis, by Christine Lively

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

March 1, 2020 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Sunday Reflections: The Kids are Not Alright, Alright, Alright

A discussion of mental health in the life of teens.

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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 […]

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, […]

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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 […]

Sunday Reflections: Today, I am Eeyore (a reflection on depression and anxiety in the life of tweens and teens)

July 12, 2015 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Yesterday TLT celebrated 4 years as a blog but the truth is, I haven’t been very celebratory this week. In fact, this week has been one of the hardest of my life. Not the hardest, just one of them. And this week I had to have one of the most difficult conversations with my almost […]

Medication, Depression, and I Was Here

February 23, 2015 by Amanda MacGregor

Generally speaking, I save my rants for Twitter and not blogging. I try to be more measured and professional in blogging (or writing reviews in other places). That said, yesterday while reading Gayle Forman’s I Was Here, I had some thoughts of the ranting variety that I shared. You can see them in the Storify […]

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