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
Read moreCognitive 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
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