If you’ve ever struggled with a panic attack, you know how it can make you feel both during and after. As a parent, it can be heartbreaking to imagine your teen going through anxiety and panic attacks. What triggers your panic attack may not be the same things that are triggering your teen. This can […]
Teen Out of Control Behavior: Handling Defiance, Anger and Poor Grades
It’s a relatively normal developmental milestone for teens to begin to show signs of rebellious or defiant behavior. In some situations, things can take a turn towards the more challenging. Your teen may display signs of anger towards everyone in the family. His once sweet personality may take a turn for the defiant and dark. […]
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7 Ways to Help Your Teen With ADHD
Parenting is filled with challenges that seem to change from year to year. Raising a child with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can bring with it additional layers of difficulty and frustration. It can be challenging to adapt parenting methods that work well with one child. There are varying degrees in severity and symptoms when […]
Resiliency: What Does It Look like in Teens
“Trauma robs you of the feeling that you are in charge of yourself, of […] self-leadership […]. The challenge of recovery is to reestablish ownership of your body and your mind–of yourself. This means feeling free to know what you know and to feel what you feel without becoming overwhelmed, enraged, ashamed, or collapsed” — […]
Your Teen Can’t Outgrow Trauma
“Why can’t you just let it go?” That’s often a question many survivors of trauma are asked as they process the trauma that they’ve experienced. This question may also be asked especially to groups of people like young males feeling pressured to appear “strong” and not express their emotions. Keeping this question in mind, this […]
The Many Different Faces of Your Teen’s Anxiety
Upset stomach, butterflies, and being on edge. Anxiety can show up in teens in a lot of different ways. This article will help you understand how anxiety might manifest itself in teens and what you can do to help your teenager. What Exactly is Anxiety? Anxiety is a feeling that everyone experiences. It’s the feeling […]
Teen Popularity and Why Your Teen Could Be Acting Out Because Of It
Teens have a host of life questions that they’re trying to understand and address. In the famous psychologist’s Erik Erickson’s stages of development, he talks about how teens are trying to answer questions like: “Who am I?” “What is important to me?” “Where do I fit in?” Keeping this developmental stage in mind, this article […]
Reactive Attachment Disorder: It’s More Than Being a “Typical Teenager”
If you’ve ever taken an introductory psychology course in high school or college, or have read a bit on self-help and relationships, then you’ve probably heard of attachment styles. Attachment styles are different ways of relating to others that have been fostered in childhood. For instance, if your parents were sometimes unavailable and neglectful, then […]
Parents Protest Masks: Teens Willing to Wear Them
The COVID-19 epidemic has led to concerns regarding education, social compliance, personal freedoms, work, health care, and social responsibility. While many parents focus on their, and their children’s personal rights, teens have often taken a different route. Though some teens are handling issues related to the pandemic well, others struggle with feelings of anxiety, alienation, […]
