Category: Child/Adolescent Mental Health
Don’t Wait Until You Are Drowning to Learn How to Swim:
Originally posted on parentingforgoodmentalhealth.com:
I know as my teen goes storming out of the house that our fight could have been heard several houses away in our quiet neighborhood. I worry about where he is going, and what he will be doing. It won’t be anything good with him in this state of mind.…
How Pretty Little Liars helped me
You may be surprised to learn that having a child diagnosed with a mental illness can cause you to go through the five stages of grieving, these are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. You will not necessarily experience them in order, and you may move in and out of them more than once. I ...
Mental Health Crisis: The Cycle of our Lives (Part 2)
Originally posted on Musings of an Addled Father: A Road Map to Mental Health:
The Emergency Department For whatever reason, your child has found him/herself in a mental health crisis. When the crisis happens, no matter where or how it started, the most common direction is to your local Emergency Department (ED). In the remainder…
When My Child was on Fire…
I lost sight of the goal. The problem became bipolar or willfulness. I no longer could see that he was a teen going through typical teen development, and I began to lose my connection with him. I no longer sought to understand; I just tried to fix everything. I moved away from empathizing, and I ...
But by the Grace of God…
Sometimes people looking in from the outside may not realize the herculean effort it takes to parent a child with a mental illness. Somedays it feels like it takes all of our strength just to breathe, and other days, we struggle with keeping our own temper under control while being under verbal assault. Unfortunately, we ...
Do You Struggle with Anxiety but Try and Hide It from Your Kids? Here is why I believe you shouldn’t.
As humans, it is perfectly normal to feel anxious. Some of us may feel it more than others, but we all feel it. I believe we can use our moments of anxiousness to teach our kids that it is not only normal but it can also be useful. It can help us not jump ...
How Do Your Emotions Affect Your Parenting?
Do you find yourself losing your mind over the littlest things? Are there days that you are not the parent you work so hard to be? This may be due to some unresolved issues from childhood. I know I know such a cliché, but is it really? “Hilary Jacobs Hendel, psychotherapist and author of the upcoming ...
Allowing Your Child to Help Influence His Care, Can Make a World of Difference
Are you allowing your child to be a part of his care plan? Studies have shown that treatment is much more effective when the parents and the child are influential in the development of the child’s care. This is especially true when they are in there teens. The more that they feel they have a ...
The Importance of Evidenced Based Therapy for Your Child
It is important to know and understand what type of therapy your child’s clinician is trained in and utilizes. Not all therapies are created equal, so you should try and find a clinician who uses evidenced-based therapies of which there are many. There are people who are in therapy much longer than necessary because the ...
More Screen Time Tied to Depression, Suicidal Behavior in Teens — Psych Central News
A new study suggests that greater screen time — whether in the form of computers, cell phones, or tablets — may have contributed to a spike in depression and suicide-related behaviors and thoughts among American teens, particularly girls, between 2010 and 2015. The study, led by a researcher at San Diego State University (SDSU), sheds ...
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