{"id":630465,"date":"2026-10-14T15:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/630465\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T15:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:02:08","slug":"new-easton-area-high-school-program-to-focus-on-students-mental-health-lehigh-valley-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/630465\/","title":{"rendered":"New Easton Area High School program to focus on students\u2019 mental health | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SALISBURY TWP., Pa. &#8211; Student leaders at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/eahs.eastonsd.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Easton Area High School<\/a> are the focus of a new program called Mind of the Leader.<\/p>\n<p>The program will focus on mental health so students can be better in class and in life.<\/p>\n<p>Sports Psychologist Dr. Jarrod Spencer with Mind of the Athlete Incorporated visited 69 News at Sunrise.<\/p>\n<p>He meets with student leaders in the school auditorium for the program. Spencer said he speaks with them about anxiety.<\/p>\n<p>He said anxiety is fear of the unknown, and he seeks to teach students practical skills to help them manage the pressure cookers they find themselves in.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer talks with students about subjects such as sleep, how the mind works, depression, and conflict resolution.<\/p>\n<p>He said cell phones have increased students\u2019 anxiety.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer said he seeks to help students develop emotional regulation skills and to help educate parents on how to help their kids.<\/p>\n<p>He will help record video messages that will be distributed to the community so parents, teachers, and family members can feel that they have the skills necessary to help kids with their emotionality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALISBURY TWP., Pa. &#8211; Student leaders at Easton Area High School are the focus of a new program&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[133581,134,554,555,309111,309109,111,139,69,309110,309108],"class_list":["post-630465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-easton-area-high-school","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-mind-of-the-athlete","tag-mind-of-the-leader","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports-psychologist","tag-student-leaders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}