PTSD

January 6, 2016 by Karen Jensen, MLS

#MHYALit: IT’S NOT YOUR FAULT: LIVING EACH DAY WITH PTSD by Tom Leveen

Today as part of our #MHYALit Discussion we are honored to once again host Tom Leveen. Yesterday Tom shared a post with us about Panic. Today he is discussing PTSD. We will have a new post every week day in January on the topic of Mental Health in YA Literature and the life of teens. […]

May 22, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

List of Lists: Teens and Mental Health Resources

May is Mental Health Awareness Month According to the NCCP, approximately 20% of adolescents have a diagnosed mental health issue. Most mental health disorders begin to present in the adolescent years. Suicide is the 3rd leading cause of death among adolescents. According to NAMI, 50% of children who present with a mental illness will drop […]

January 2, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Book Review – The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson

I am sincerely afraid my review will not do justice to this book. Scratch that. I am completely certain that my review will not do justice to this book. Hayley Kincain and her father, Andy, have quit their life on the road to return home for her senior year of high school. Their past years […]