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While looking up statistics from the website of The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) I came across some very interesting articles, and this one captured my attention.  Follow this link to read the full article

Cognitive Prevention Program Trumps Usual Care in “Real World” Trial

Teaching kids that they already have the ability to re-shape their negative thoughts, dispute the meaning they give to events that happen around them and to develop empowering beliefs about themselves and the world they live in is at the heart of the Character Education lessons and activities within the programs at www.KidsCanDoAnything.com.  Current research in Positive Psychology shows that developing a “habit of happiness” is not only possible but the benefits far outweigh the effort required.

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“Only a fourth of depressed youth receive any treatment and at least 20 percent develop a chronic, difficult-to-treat form of the illness. Having a history of the illness substantially increases risk for depression, which soars two to three times among children of depressed parents.”

“Among teens whose parents were not depressed at the beginning of the study, the program was more effective in preventing onset of depression than usual care — 11.7 percent vs. 40.5 percent. However, this advantage did not hold for youth in the cognitive behavioral program if they had a parent who was depressed at the start of the study. Such teens had significantly higher rates of depression than those without a currently depressed parent”

The scientific evidence is extensive that parents play an extremely significant role in their children’s emotional well-being by modeling their own ability to control depressive thoughts and behaviors.