{"id":1338,"date":"2017-08-28T06:52:48","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T10:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2017-10-25T15:06:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T19:06:07","slug":"1338","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/08\/28\/1338\/","title":{"rendered":"#NACACreads: Upcoming Book Discussion Will Explore Student Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/AtWhatCostWEB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1339\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/AtWhatCostWEB-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/AtWhatCostWEB-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/AtWhatCostWEB.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Depression, anxiety, and other mental health conditions are on the rise among youth at many competitive schools in the US and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Yet when kids struggle academically or emotionally, we often put the onus on them to change.<\/p>\n<p>Join us Oct. 24 to explore the adjustments educators can make to help students prepare for college in more healthy and balanced ways. An hour-long <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nacacnet.org\/news--publications\/publications\/NACACreads\/\">#NACACreads <\/a>discussion of <em>At What Cost? Defending Adolescent Development in Fiercely Competitive Schools<\/em> will kick off on Twitter at 9 p.m. (ET) featuring special guest and author David L. Gleason.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPressure to succeed, in and of itself, is not necessarily unhealthy,\u201d notes Gleason, a clinical psychologist. \u201cHowever, too much pressure \u2014 for anyone \u2014 but especially for still-developing children and adolescents \u2014 can be dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/developmentalempathy.org\/at-what-cost-book\/\">Learn more about the book<\/a> and view Gleason\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cSiE5iE0QMs\">TEDx Talk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Admitted writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at mstegmeir@nacacnet.org.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Depression, anxiety, and other mental health conditions are on the rise among youth at many competitive schools in the US and abroad. Yet when kids struggle academically or emotionally, we often put the onus on them to change. Join us Oct. 24 to explore the adjustments educators can make to help students prepare for college &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/08\/28\/1338\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#NACACreads: Upcoming Book Discussion Will Explore Student Mental Health<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,6],"tags":[64],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-readiness","category-nacac-news","tag-nacacreads"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/stressed-student.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/stressed-student.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Mary Stegmeir","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/mstegmeir\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/stressed-student.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/seWmJq-1338","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}