Anxiety

Check out this website: https://www.adaa.org/

Great read: http://time.com/4480537/what-to-say-to-kids-when-theyre-anxious/?iid=sr-link1

                http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/10/health/feat-brutally-honest-let-child-fail/index.html 

                https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/emotions/?WT.ac=p-nav-emotions

Depression 

http://www.helpguide.org/articles/depression/teen-depression-signs-help.htm

Divorce

http://understandingteenagers.com.au/blog/the-impacts-of-divorce-on-teenagers/

http://understandingteenagers.com.au/blog/the-dos-donts-of-helping-teens-during-divorce/

Grief and Loss

Support for Grieving Teens

When a teen experiences the death and loss of a loved one, emotions may be very different from a younger child or adult.

Cycle of Grief

Grief has been compared to a roller coaster ride because of its many ups and downs.  It may help to know that others have traveled before you and have found their way back to safe ground.  Below are some common feelings:

• shock

• avoidance and retreat

• resistance, blame and anger

• constant thoughts of the loss

• jealousy aimed at those who have what you do not

• anger

• self-blame

• confusion and feeling disoriented

• physical disturbances inclusion exhaustion and changes in appetite/sleep

• nervousness

Social Skills

Books:    

Six Steps to an Emotionally Intelligent Teenager by James Windell

Social Skills for Teenagers and Adults with Asperger Syndrome by Nancy J. Patrick

Social Skills for Teenagers with Developmental & Autism Spectrum Disorders by Elizabeth A. Laugeson & Fred Frankel  

Social Media Safety 

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/features/feature-0004-net-cetera-chatting-kids-about-being-online 

Mindfulness

Book: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck

App for students: Stop, Breathe, & Think 

• Smart Social (Social Media assistance website for Parents) 

  • https://smartsocial.com/

• Mind Yeti (Mindfulness App) 

  • https://www.mindyeti.com/

  • Helpful Counseling Websites

    1. 1. • https://mastersincounseling.org/guide/top-sites/ 

• Common Sense Media (Website for helping parents regarding technology and social media) 

  •  https://www.commonsensemedia.org/

• Self Injury and Recovery research and resources (Resource and information regarding self Harm) 

  • http://www.selfinjury.bctr.cornell.edu/