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Transitioning Back to School During a Global Health Pandemic: Managing Your Child's Stress and Anxiety

9/6/2020

 
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I did a webinar on back to school anxiety with the awesome people of Donohoe Pediatrics. Click here for the link to the ~30m recording and enter the following passcode: U99g5M=0. 

Resources for Teachers and School Staff for Back to School during COVID

8/20/2020

 
The attached document lists resources for teachers on how to support their students during this time and how to take care of their own anxiety.
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Back to School Anxiety in the time of COVID-19

8/20/2020

 
I have compiled some links and resources for parents in this time. 
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Mindful Parenting Class Re-Launches June 16, 2020

6/8/2020

 
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Insight Meditation Offers Online Retreat for Teens~

6/8/2020

 
June 26-29, 2020 for ages 15-19. Learn more here.  

Keeping Calm and Carrying On (in the time of COVID-19)

4/2/2020

 
I am compiling online resources for kids yoga and mindfulness (for parents too) here.  Feel free to add additional resources in the comments below. 

Mindfulness Intervention to study the Neurobiology of Depression (MIND)

10/3/2015

 
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I am currently completing a two-year longitudinal follow up of a sample of adolescents who completed 8 weeks of Rumination-focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy (R-CBT) or an assessment-only control. Rumination is when we get stuck in negative thinking without being able to move forward in a productive way. One of the key skills taught in R-CBT is mindfulness. Over the course of the 8 week intervention, teens learned to notice when they were ruminating and to shift out of rumination into a more adaptive way of thinking or being. All adolescents completed a brain scan before and after the 8 week intervention period. A first look at the data suggests that R-CBT reduced residual symptoms of depression, prevented depressive relapse, and also influenced connectivity patterns of the brain (specifically, decreased hyperconnectivity between regions involved in the default mode and cognitive control networks).  I willl be presenting these findings this fall at the annual meetings of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry as well as the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.

This research is being conducted at the University of Illinois at Chicago's Institute for Juvenile Research and has been funded by the Klingenstein Foundation, the UIC Center for Clinical and Translational Research, the UIC Campus Research Board, and the Mind and Life Institute. My mentor for this project is Dr. Scott Langenecker (pictured above).

Mind and Life - research on mindfulness

9/21/2015

 
This video describes research supported by the Mind and Life Institute. I received one of the Varela Awards to support my research examining the use of mindfulness to reduce risk for depressive relapse among teenagers (and they told me to be silly and do yoga poses when they were filming). Enjoy!
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    Dr. Rachel H. Jacobs

    I am a clinical psychologist who specializes in training resiliency and wellness among young adults.

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Meet DR. JACOBS

Dr. Rachel Jacobs, PhD
Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Postdoctoral Fellowship
Columbia University
New York State Psychiatric Institute
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I combine cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) with strategies from mindfulness to provide a comprehensive wellness approach to help young adults and college students overcome depression and anxiety and live healthier, more fulfilling lives.
Northwestern Medicine Feinberg School of Medicine
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