Episode 10 -’Don’t Believe Everything You Think’

Note: This episode includes a discussion of self harm and suicidal ideation, listener discretion advised.

24 hour Suicide Hotline: 800-273-8255 (TALK).

In this episode, Nikki and Chad discuss the role that thinking plays in childhood mental illness. Nikki shares the thoughts, feelings, and behavior triangle and provides parents with a framework for better understanding their children’s emotions and behavior at different stages of development. Nikki also introduces the different types of thinking errors or thought distortions that all people commonly use, and describes how these can contribute to anxiety and other mental health symptoms. Here is an article that describes a variety of thoughts distortion. Ways to model positive thinking for our children are also discussed. Chad and Nikki talk briefly about how thoughts of self harm and suicide can develop and how to respond if your child discloses these kinds of thoughts to you. To close out the episode, a few more strategies for shifting negative thinking in children are shared, including this worry tree where children can symbolically hang their negative thoughts on the tree at night before bed or any time they need to clear their mind.

Episode 10 -’Don’t Believe Everything You Think’ – Scrambled: The Children‘s Mental Health Podcast

Note: This episode includes a discussion of self harm and suicidal ideation, listener discretion advised. 24 hour Suicide Hotline: 800-273-8255 (TALK). In this episode, Nikki and Chad discuss the role that thinking plays in childhood mental illness