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TEEN DEPRESSION

Five Ways Parents Can Help Prevent Teen Depression

Five Ways Parents Can Help Prevent Teen Depression

Five Ways Parents Can Help Prevent Teen Depression

New research is revealing how to to protect teen's mental health during a challenging part of life. (GGSC, Jill Suttie, June 14, 2016)

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What Adolescents Really Need from Parents

Five Ways Parents Can Help Prevent Teen Depression

Five Ways Parents Can Help Prevent Teen Depression

In a Q & A, neuroscientist Ron Dahl explains how parents can help younger teens avoid depression and anxiety as they become more independent. (GGSC, Jill Suttie, May 25, 2016)

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What Do Teen's Emotions Feel Like?

Five Ways Parents Can Help Prevent Teen Depression

What Do Teen's Emotions Feel Like?

A recent study investigates how we experience feelings across a lifespan. (GGSC, James MCConchie, July 24, 2018)

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Mayo Clinic: Teen Depression

Parenting A Depressed Teenager

What Do Teen's Emotions Feel Like?

Teen depression is a serious mental health problem that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest in activities. It affects how your teenager thinks, feels and behaves, and it can cause emotional, functional and physical problems. Although depression can occur at any time in life, symptoms may be different between teens and adults. Visiting the website can offer valuable and current insight. 

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Parenting A Depressed Teenager

Parenting A Depressed Teenager

Parenting A Depressed Teenager

Start by listening without judgement, not trying to 'fix' her. (Child Mind Institute, Stephanie Dowd, PsyD)

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The Rise of Teen Depression

Parenting A Depressed Teenager

Parenting A Depressed Teenager

In the past decade, the rise in clinical depression and anxiety among adolescents ages of 12-17 has gone up. As medical professionals seek to find the reasons, how can parents determine: When is it typical teen moods, and when is it something more? (John Hopkins Health Review, Fall/Winter 2017)

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ANXIETY

7 Ways To Help Someone With Anxiety

Anxiety In Teens- How To Help A Teenager Deal With Anxiety

Anxiety In Teens- How To Help A Teenager Deal With Anxiety

Knowing how anxiety works can help you to better support loved ones without inadvertently making their anxiety worse.


BY ALICE BOYES | JULY 25, 2018 Greater Good Science Center

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Anxiety In Teens- How To Help A Teenager Deal With Anxiety

Anxiety In Teens- How To Help A Teenager Deal With Anxiety

Anxiety In Teens- How To Help A Teenager Deal With Anxiety

Anxiety can be tough for anyone to deal with, but add in the whirlwind of changes that come with adolescence, and anxiety can feel like an intrusive mind hog that spends way too much time squeezing, surprising and overwhelming anyone it lands on.


Hey Sigmund, Karen Young

Where the Science of Psychology Meets the Art of Being Human

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How To Harness Your Anxiety

Anxiety In Teens- How To Help A Teenager Deal With Anxiety

Why Kids And Teens Face Far More Anxiety These Days

Research shows that we can tame anxiety to use it as a resource.


Anxiety has long been one of the most feared enemies in our emotional canon. We fear its arrival, feel helpless and trapped under its spell, and grant it power to overtake us in new, exciting and challenging situations. But what if we’ve been going about it all wrong?


New York Times, Alicia H. Clark,Oct. 16, 2018

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Why Kids And Teens Face Far More Anxiety These Days

Why Anxiety Feels the Way it Does – What You Need to Know to Strengthen Against Anxiety

Why Kids And Teens Face Far More Anxiety These Days


When it comes to treating anxiety in children and teens, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook are the bane of therapists' work.


Washington Post By Amy Ellis Nutt

May 10, 2018



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Why Anxiety Feels the Way it Does – What You Need to Know to Strengthen Against Anxiety

Why Anxiety Feels the Way it Does – What You Need to Know to Strengthen Against Anxiety

Why Anxiety Feels the Way it Does – What You Need to Know to Strengthen Against Anxiety

Anxiety can feel awful, but it comes from a strong, healthy brain that is doing exactly what brains are meant to do – protect us and keep us alive. 


Hey Sigmund, Karen Young

Where the Science of Psychology Meets the Art of Being Human



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How To Help A Child Struggling With Anxiety

Why Anxiety Feels the Way it Does – What You Need to Know to Strengthen Against Anxiety

Why Anxiety Feels the Way it Does – What You Need to Know to Strengthen Against Anxiety

"Childhood anxiety is one of the most important mental health challenges of our time. One in five children will experience some kind of clinical-level anxiety by the time they reach adolescence, according to Danny Pine, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at the National Institute of Mental Health and one of the world's top anxiety researchers." Learn six takeaways and valuable information on how anxiety works from this podcast.

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SCREEN TIME, TECH & SOCIAL MEDIA

Articles & Podcasts

  • How to Help Kids Deal With Cyberbullying (Common Sense Media)
  • How to Talk to Your Kids About Sexting  (Common Sense Media)
  • What Parents Need to Know About Social Media and Anxiety (Common Sense Media)


  • Three ways to teach kids to find compassion and empathy behind the screen (The Washington Post, September, 2019)
  • The Scientific Debate Over Teens, Screens And Mental Health (Life Kit, NPR Special Series, August, 2019, 7:24 mins) 
  • Kids Not Hurt By Screentime (Scientific American, September, 2019)
  • At Your Wits' End With A Screen-Obsessed Kid? Read This (Life Kit, NPR Special Series, June, 2019)
  • 5 Strategies For Coping With Screen-Obsessed Kids (Parenting: Screen Time and Your Family, NPR, June 2019, 28:11 mins)
  • Is social media addictive? Scilla Andreen discusses in documentary LIKE (June 2019, 3:43 mins)
  • From 1st Phones To Online Porn: Answers To Your Screen Time Questions (September, 2019, 20:57 mins). 


Books for Diving Deeper into the Topic:

  • Raising a Screen-Smart Kid: Embrace the Good and Avoid the Bad in the Digital Age (Julianna Miner, 2019)
  • The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life (Anya Kamenetz, 2018)
  • Screenwise: Helping Kids Thrive (and Survive) in Their Digital World (Devorah Heitner, 2016)
  • Disconnected: How To Reconnect Our Digitally Distracted Kids (Tom Kersting, 2016)

BOOKS ON ANXIETY

Taking Control of Anxiety: Small Steps for Getting the Best of Worry, Stress, and Fear
The Anxiety Toolkit: Strategies for Fine-Tuning Your Mind and Moving Past Your Stuck Points
Hack Your Anxiety: How to Make Anxiety Work for You in Life, Love, and All That You Do
What to Do When You Worry Too Much: A Kid's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety

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