#242: Grace for the Children with Matt Stanford
Struggle Well School
Emily Thomas
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Are you watching your adolescent struggle with mental health? Are you ever torn between faith and your own mental health recovery? Matt Stanford works right at that intersection. He reminds those of us who have adolescents dealing with mental and emotional health issues to check our preconceived notions at the door. Forgetting where they should be and helping them recover gracefully.
Matthew S. Stanford (PhD, Baylor University) is CEO of the Hope and Healing Center & Institute in Houston, Texas, and adjunct professor of psychiatry at Baylor College. A Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, he is the author of several books including Grace for the Afflicted: A Clinical and Biblical Perspective on Mental Illness and Grace for the Children: Finding Hope in the Midst of Child and Adolescent Mental Illness.
WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT:-
the church’s response to assisting with mental health issues
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over-spiritualizing mental health
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identifying when your child needs outside help
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steps to getting an accurate diagnosis
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encouragement for moms who have received a hard diagnosis
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removing the stigma of a mental health diagnosis
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how to talk to your child about their diagnosis
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good mental health practices while sheltering in place
Between the World and MeWhite FragilityGrace for the ChildrenGrace for the Afflicted
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| 0:00.0 | Bum, um, bum, |
| 0:02.0 | bum. Welcome back friends. My name is Emily Thomas and I am your host and this is the |
| 0:20.7 | Mom Struggling Wall Podcast, the podcast that helps you love your actual life so that you do not need to run away from home. |
| 0:26.0 | So this week, ladies, there's a boy on the podcast. |
| 0:30.0 | But it's about mental health. You know I love talking about mental health. A lot of you do as well. So this week we're going to talk about mental health and our children. |
| 0:40.0 | Before we get started though, I want to say thank you to the new patrons we have we have some new |
| 0:44.0 | strugs and I want to say thank you and hello to Susan Angie Alice Wendy Jessica Taylor |
| 0:50.7 | Rachel Marsha and Kayla. We are so, so excited that you've decided to join us. |
| 0:56.4 | If anybody else wants additional podcast, two of them a month, and a super secret Facebook group where we go more in depth about the topics covered each week. |
| 1:08.0 | Then join us at Patreon.com slash mom struggling well. We are going to try something new. I don't know exactly when. I'll have to ask |
| 1:16.1 | Katie. Katie knows everything about the schedule. But we are going to be interviewing some of the Patreon's drugs, and I'm really excited to share them with you. |
| 1:28.8 | Because I love this Mom Strzling Well community. |
| 1:31.2 | So there's so much going on in the world right now, all the |
| 1:35.2 | protests that are happening and I think it doesn't matter who you are, there's some |
| 1:42.0 | really strong feelings evolved as there should be and I think a way to |
| 1:47.0 | struggle well is to seek to understand and learn and pray pray pray it's just as heavy it's a heavy time and I think a lot of |
| 1:56.8 | it's good I think we're seeing a lot of ickiness too so I think I't know, I don't have anything good to say except hey if you're |
| 2:07.4 | feeling this is difficult. Me too. I wanted to tell you about a book I just listened to on audible. It was read by the author and I liked that. |
| 2:17.5 | The author's name is Todd Nahisee Coates and it's called Between the World and Me. |
| 2:23.6 | CNN named it one of the most influential books of the decade. |
| 2:27.3 | It's a Pulitzer Prize finalist. |
| 2:29.7 | It is written from a black man to his black son. And again like I said read by the author I |
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