Parenting a teenager with depression is hard! If you need support and don’t have time for therapy or a formal support group, here’s how to find other parents to talk to about your teen’s depression on Facebook.
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Should you get a dog to help your depressed teenager? Good question. I think it depends on how you, dear parent, are feeling. Here are a few critical questions I think you should ask yourself before you commit.
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If your teenager is showing signs of depression, but won’t get help, don’t give up on them. Here are some things I think you can do as a parent to help a depressed teenager who doesn’t want help.
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Having witnessed teenage depression up close for five years now, I’m not sure parents can prevent the illness. But it won’t hurt to build a bit of a safety net for your kids’ mental health. Here’s how.
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With COVID upon us, it may be extra hard to spot signs of depression in your teen. For what it’s worth, here are a few of the early warning signs I missed in my own daughter.
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If your teen has tried Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and still struggles with depression, you may want to ask your health care provider about Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT).
Read moreAs parents we tend to look to other parents to tell us how much screen time is too much for tweens and teens. So, lucky for us, The 2019 Common Sense Census on Media Use by Teens and Tweens is out. It’s the ultimate comparison tool. The verdict: kids are
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I found Parenting Through the Storm by Ann Douglas after my daughter reached the recovery stage, but I wish I had found it sooner. It’s the best resource I’ve found for Canadian parents with kids with mental health challenges.
Read moreIs hardiness the new resilience? I think it will be come January 2020, when Dr. Steven J. Stein’s new book Hardiness: Making Stress Work for You to Achieve Your Life Goals comes out. I had the good fortune to hear Dr. Stein speak at a recent event at The Globe
Read moreThe George Hull Centre for Children and Families, in Etobicoke, Ontario, is one of 400 agencies in the province that support children and youth mental health. I was familiar with it as my daughter, through a referral from her school, had briefly done speech therapy at the centre as little
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