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Dr. Parks new book, COVID-19/MENTAL HEALTH CRISES: Holistic Understanding & Solutions, is now available for purchase. Book has timely and essential information about recognizing mental health challenges during high stress, crises, and COVID-19. I present vital information on:
- Holistic steps for understanding.
- Coping.
- Self-care.
- Getting help
- Recovery
- And more—to not only survive but to thrive and transform
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Dr. Parks is a consultant, writer, and mentor who specializes in integrative Psychiatry and Holistic Medicine.
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Childrens’ Essential Need
A child at risk can easily go unrecognized!
Sam was lagging in his school work and was falling asleep on his school desk. His grades were failing. He was getting into fights, according to his principal. Other kids were bullying and picking on him. At home and school, he was often moody and irritable. He avoided social activities and liked to play by himself or watch TV. The school called his mother to make an appointment. What happened next totally caught everyone off guard. Help had come too late. [i]
Crises, Career, and Mental Health
My journey from crises to a career in medicine and mental health began early in life.
Growing up in the rural countryside, I loved to run and play, in the open fields and woods, with my friends and dog. I became good at swimming and other sports. Even though polio was in the news with pictures of children paralyzed from the untreatable illness—there was no effective treatment or vaccine. I felt invincible and in robust health. But with a turn of fate, the virus found me one summer day.
COVID-19 and Mental Health Crises Book
If a mental health crisis or the pandemic has affected your life, then this book is written for you.
COVID-19/Mental Health Crises: Holistic Understanding & Solutions
In his timely book, now published, Ronald R. Parks, MPH, MD, examines the impact of COVID-19 or other forms of crisis, loss, or tragedy on individual mental health.
