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Engage Adolescents in Therapy

By Parentshop Staff

Engaging adolescents in therapy can be challenging due to their unique developmental stage and the various emotional, social, and psychological changes they experience. However, effective engagement is crucial for successful therapeutic outcomes. Here are key strategies for effectively engaging adolescents in therapy.

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Childhood Mental Health

Starting on Your Journey to Supporting Children's Mental Health

By Parentshop Staff

In today's fast-paced world, parents and caregivers face a range of challenges in nurturing their children's mental health and well-being. A recent study from Smiling Mind presented a concerning statistic: only 1 in 2 parents feel confident in meeting the mental health and well-being needs of their child. This shows how important it is to find ways to help parents feel more sure of themselves.

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strangers

Should children be told not to talk to strangers?

By Michael HawtonOctober 30, 2018

A general view among child safety advocates is that children should be discouraged from talking with strangers. This message is regularly announced (and generally unopposed) in today’s culture with ‘stranger danger’ messages becoming part of modern parlance. It concerns me that a paranoid view of parenting is creeping into our parenting practise. This perspective seems to be that if there is any risk at all, however small or remote in possibility, we must respond to mitigating that risk or find ourselves questioning how good a parent we are. I’m sure that the aim of the ‘world-is-a-dangerous-place’ child advocates is well meaning. So, I’m in no way impugning their motivation. That said, the media coverage of the ‘scary-world’ hypothesis gets far more airplay than could be considered balanced. What I do think is that by magnifying the risks and not balancing the arguments for and against engaging with strangers, we send the wrong message to children. So, with all of this in mind, help your children talk with strangers; they are not all bad.

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