Children & Mental Health

99 Concord Street,North Reading MA 01864

19 July, 2021

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Children and their Mental Health The statistics of anxiety, stress, depression, autism and the overall decline of mental health in our children have risen at alarming rates. Even without a pandemic, parents and care givers alike have been navigating challenges with children and their mental health. In an effort to give us the resources we need to help our children, we are hosting a special session on children and their mental health with Dr. Caroline Leaf at International Family Church. Dr. Leaf is a communication pathologist and cognitive neuroscientist with a Masters and PhD in Communication Pathology and a BSc Logopaedics, specializing in cognitive and metacognitive neuropsychology. During her years in clinical practice and her work with thousands of underprivileged teachers and students in her home country of South Africa and in the USA, she developed her theory (called the Geodesic Information Processing theory) of how we think, build memory, and learn, into tools and processes that have transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), learning disabilities (ADD, ADHD), autism, dementias and mental ill-health issues like anxiety and depression. She has helped hundreds of thousands of students and adults learn how to use their mind to detox and grow their brain to succeed in every area of their lives, including school, university, and the workplace.