Teen Remedy from Baltimore County Public Colleges

You might have heard discuss a teen psychological well being disaster within the US, and sadly this isn’t simply speak. Knowledge and the observations of Talkspace therapists present that many teenagers usually are not okay. In keeping with the newest CDC knowledge, 42% of highschool college students reported feeling very unhappy or hopeless and in a survey of Talkspace suppliers who work with teenagers, 63% report that they imagine the psychological well being of excessive schoolers has gotten worse over the previous two years (and solely 8% say it has improved).

Maryland isn’t any exception—actually an alarming 17% of Maryland youth had tried suicide, in line with CDC knowledge from 2021. We all know that, nationwide, too few teenagers in disaster obtain the help they want—almost 6 in 10 youth with main melancholy don’t obtain any psychological well being therapy.

The advisors and directors of Baltimore County Public Colleges wish to do the whole lot they’ll to help the psychological well being of their district’s highschool college students, in order that they’ve partnered with Talkspace. Now any excessive schooler age 13 and up in a Baltimore County public highschool can obtain messaging remedy with a licensed Talkspace therapist, and have entry to a clinically confirmed on-line psychological well being program they’ll full at their very own tempo.

Teen Remedy

Specialised on-line remedy for ages 13-17

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Right here’s how BCPS excessive schoolers can join:

Go to talkspace.com/bcps and enter your most popular e-mail and key phrase to qualify. The key phrase will be discovered on the announcement web page of the Focus Scholar Portal.
Reply a number of questions on your feelings and psychological state and also you’ll obtain a customized help program by way of the Talkspace Go app. You’ll discover psychological well being schooling and self-guided workout routines designed for teenagers. You possibly can full workout routines and on-line programs completely at your personal tempo.
If you happen to select to obtain 1-on-1 messaging remedy, inside a day or two you’ll be matched with a therapist licensed in Maryland. Talkspace expertise pairs you with a therapist based mostly on components resembling what you’re scuffling with and therapist speciality.
You possibly can ship messages to your Talkspace therapist 24/7. Therapists typically reply daily, 5 days per week.

Messaging remedy takes place on Talkspace’s safe and encrypted platform, accessible from the teenagers’ smartphones, tablets or computer systems. They’ll talk with their therapist at any time with a limiteless variety of personal messages for gratis. The efficacy of Talkspace’s message-based remedy has been validated by 20+ revealed research carried out in partnership with main analysis establishments together with Columbia College and New York College.

Teenagers love the choice of messaging and having day by day entry to their counselor which is a large good thing about what Talkspace has to supply. Many teenagers appear extra comfy with messaging remedy—the supply of it appears to be comforting for them.

Talkspace therapist Minkyung Chung, MS, LMHC

The workforce of Talkspace therapists who can be found to work with Baltimore County public highschool teenagers have obtained particular coaching in working with youngsters, and have experience in a variety of circumstances, resembling melancholy, nervousness, OCD, and extra. However remedy isn’t just for youngsters with a selected psychological well being want—the service is out there to any scholar who merely desires anyone to hear and assist them take care of the standard stresses of contemporary teen life. Searching for remedy and different types of psychological well being help even when there’s not an pressing concern to deal with might stop psychological well being issues from growing, by giving teenagers the instruments they should regulate their feelings and handle stress in a wholesome approach.

There isn’t a easy answer to the psychological well being challenges dealing with US teenagers, however providing them an area to be heard is a basic first step. The Baltimore County Public Colleges are offering that for his or her college students, and we hope that by putting understanding, caring professionals at these teenagers’ fingertips, so help is at all times only a message away, their college students will be capable of really feel higher now and develop insights and coping expertise to help mentally wholesome futures.

For extra data on this system together with registration and parental/authorized guardian consent, go to talkspace.com/bcps.

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