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Thought Factory Podcast #1005 || Re | Physiology Behind Student Depression and Anxiety
Depression and anxiety are gripping adolescents and there is no easy pill to swallow to eradicate this from their lives. Someone cannot just simply “cheer up” or “snap out of […]
Thought Factory Podcast #1004 || Expert Advice on Helping Student Suicide and Depression Since Covid
A change in circumstances and stress can trigger episodes of anxiety or depression in students, and with the changes in school and church dynamics due to the pandemic, how have […]
Thought Factory Podcast #1002 || Ten-Year Forecast of Youth Ministry | Part One
The landscape of youth ministry changes as each decade passes. The student life is different now than it was 20 years ago. The church youth group was executing different methods […]
Thought Factory Podcast #815 || Special Edition Four | The Big Question that Crisis Forces Us to Answer
As weeks roll into months of this current crisis we find ourselves in, you may be evaluating and re-evaluating what you have been doing in your ministry to students. This […]
Thought Factory Podcast #813 || Special Edition Two | Number One Thing to be Doing Right Now in Youth Ministry
As we shift into the groove of being removed from our normal routines of ministry, we have established what our ministry will look like digitally for the extent of this […]
Thought Factory Podcast #812 || Special Edition One | Designing our Digital Destiny for Youth Ministry
We are navigating through the new normal with the coronavirus pandemic affecting all areas of society throughout the world. Churches and youth ministries have not been immune as we try […]
Thought Factory Podcast #802 || Screen Time | Measuring Digital Nutrition
“Screen time” has become another thing we measure. We are all spending time on our dopamine-inducing devices, but how much is too much? We receive the notification, compare our numbers […]
Thought Factory Podcast #801 || Legislating the Digital Playground for Adolescents
When society shifted from analog to digital, we were soon introduced to the internet, which allowed our society connect with almost every other one in the world. Eventually, that birthed […]
Thought Factory Podcast #612 || Students in the Age of Comparison
We continue our discussion on mental health, looking at some of the causes of increased student depression and anxiety – stemming from constantly comparing themselves to others online. Since the […]