The Whole Child

Anxiety

What to Know When Your Child Is Scared to Go to School

Sheilah M. Gauch on November 7, 2025

Helping a child who is afraid to go to school is hard work. Making sure you understand how anxiety works is essential as you lead the team in supporting them.

Helping a child who is afraid to go to school is hard work. Making sure you understand how anxiety works is essential as you lead the team in supporting them.

Anxiety

The Anxiety of School Avoidance

Sheilah M. Gauch on March 4, 2025

What the anxiety associated with school avoidance looks like, and how families and schools can work together—staying away from blame and shame—to help students best.

What the anxiety associated with school avoidance looks like, and how families and schools can work together—staying away from blame and shame—to help students best.

Mental Health Stigma

Is Mental Health Stigma Impacting Our Ability to Heal?

Sheilah M. Gauch on December 13, 2024

Mental health stigma creates many barriers. Is it making it harder to find healing in this mental health crisis?

Mental health stigma creates many barriers. Is it making it harder to find healing in this mental health crisis?

PANDAS

The Intersection of Mental Health and the Immune System

Sheilah M. Gauch on February 28, 2024

Understanding the complex, multifaceted ways that the immune system can impact mental health is essential to helping more people find healing.

Understanding the complex, multifaceted ways that the immune system can impact mental health is essential to helping more people find healing.

Caregiving

Why Caregivers' Mental Health is Suffering

Sheilah M. Gauch on September 20, 2023

It involves the history of how we view them, their caregiver burden, and the health implications of their stress.

It involves the history of how we view them, their caregiver burden, and the health implications of their stress.

Trauma

Understanding the Trauma of Caring for Children With Mental Illness

Sheilah M. Gauch on May 23, 2023

Caregivers of children with mental illness are often traumatized. Understanding this trauma can help them, and their children, heal.

Caregivers of children with mental illness are often traumatized. Understanding this trauma can help them, and their children, heal.

Grief

Understanding Chronic Sorrow

Sheilah M. Gauch on January 13, 2023

Have you ever wondered about the grief and loss that caregivers supporting a child with mental illness experience? It's called chronic sorrow—and it needs to be talked about.

Have you ever wondered about the grief and loss that caregivers supporting a child with mental illness experience? It's called chronic sorrow—and it needs to be talked about.

Health

Supporting the Whole Child

Sheilah M. Gauch on November 25, 2022

We know supporting the whole child is best practice. How do we ensure systems and professionals who care for them can continue this?

We know supporting the whole child is best practice. How do we ensure systems and professionals who care for them can continue this?