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). Interpersonal Psychotherapy is an evidence-based, time-limited talk therapy that has proven to be effective in the treatment of major depression, eating disorders and
As 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
I found Parenting Through the Storm by Ann Douglas after my daughter reached the recovery stage, but I wish I had found it sooner. If you’re unfamiliar with Ann Douglas, get ready to rejoice because this lady has been through the wringer and has lived to tell the tale. She
Is 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
The 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
I didn’t always talk about my teen’s struggle with depression. For a long time, I thought, “it isn’t my story to tell.” And then I wrote this article for The Globe and Mail. I wrote it because things are getting worse for our kids. And because I believe parents in
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), with or without medication, seems to be the go-to treatment for teenagers with moderate to severe depression. The catch is that one-on-one CBT with a psychologist or licensed clinical social worker in Toronto can cost anywhere from $150 to $225 an hour in Toronto, and appointments
If you live with a teenager who lives with depression, you probably already know that Mother’s Day might suck. Or, it might be great. Your heart, broken and deprived, might get the lift it needs to get on with it for another day, another week, another month. It’s hard to
There’s a learning curve to managing antidepressants in your teenager’s life. Things I hadn’t considered until I was faced with them. And almost as soon as I got my head around it, I found a brand new suitcase of emotional baggage to unpack, along with some unexpected practical challenges. For
Bell, I think we need to talk. You don’t know me, but you know my daughter. She’s the 1 in 5 in Canada with mental illness. Part of the 12% of girls under the age of 18 who has experienced a major depressive disorder. You don’t know me, because as
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