Country Cures | How We Do It - For Military Kids

Our Unique Technique

Dr. Gilda explains how to heal, grow, and thrive, on Bill Cunningham’s national TV show.

University of Southern California found that military children are disproportionately vulnerable to suicide attempts. Of 2,409 military students in ninth and 11th grade at 261 schools across California, 11.7% said they had attempted suicide. (For the 21,274 students with civilian parents, that figure was 7.3%.)

Suicide is the second leading cause of death for youth 10 to 24, and these statistics are rising. Yale University found a strong link between bullying and suicide.

Children of deployed service members are 2.5 times more likely to develop psychological problems, and are more likely than nonmilitary kids to experience violence and harassment at school (Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics), experiment with alcohol or drugs, and carry a weapon on school grounds (JAMA Pediatrics).

These behaviors represent the pinnacle of hopelessness–and military children need an immediate antidote! Dr. David R. Hawkins demonstrated that country music correlates with “higher functioning” behaviors, sharply contrasting the rising suicide mentality.

Country Cures® uses country music to ignite this higher functioning. With our unique technique, students apply this favorite music to their bullying experiences–and heal, grow, and thrive.

Sample Teaching Tool

“How to Shut a Bully Up!”

One of the major crises today for kids is the bullying epidemic. After researching 7,000 students in all 50 states, the University of Texas at Arlington found that traditional anti-bullying programs have not been working! Country Cures® created this educational teaching tool for the bullying epidemic—and it DOES work! A curriculum guide (not shown here) accompanies this program. Seen here are video and audio formats.