Children are given a series of vaccines over the first few years of their lives to prevent disease. In fact, most schools will not admit children if they have not taken these pre-emptive measures to protect their physical health. But what about mental health? What if there were a way to protect our youth against mental disease and disorder? Would you give your child a depression vaccine? Believe it or not, an inoculation as such does exist. By teaching our youth social and emotional learning skills as early as middle school we can boost their resilience and begin to mitigate childhood depressi
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