Depression/Mood/Behavior

13 Essential Coping Skills for Depression to Guide Your Child Through the Storm

13 Essential Coping Skills for Depression to Guide Your Child Through the Storm

When your child or teenager is grappling with mental health and behavioral issues like mood disorders, it can feel like you’re navigating uncharted waters. But when they have coping skills for depression, they can support their brain health while enhancing their attention, mood, stress, and behavior. They gain that all-important stress tolerance for little and big life stressors. Let’s gain

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Proven Strategies to Control Anger and Frustration in Children

Proven Strategies to Control Anger and Frustration in Children: Unlocking the Key to Calm

Children experience a gamut of emotions, just like adults. Anger and frustration are normal feelings that every child will experience. However, children may not yet have the emotional vocabulary or coping mechanisms to manage these intense emotions effectively (Denham, 2006).  These feelings can become even more pronounced and difficult to manage in children diagnosed with behavioral and mental health issues

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Teen Behavior Disorders

Teen Behavior Disorders

When your child experience teen behavior disorders during the teenage years, it can be disconcerting for parents. However, behavioral issues are common among teens and they are a normal part of teenage development. It is natural for them to experience internal worries, which parents should be prepared for. Just teens, parents are learning too as these issues arise, so handling

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How to Deal with Impulsive Behavior

How to Deal with Impulsive Behavior

Behavioral inhibition or lack of impulse control will prevent children from learning at higher levels or developing executive functioning skills. When kids are impulsive, they just aren’t present at the moment because they are two steps ahead in something else. As a result, they aren’t connected and regulated enough to think or pay attention. Response inhibition is the foundation of

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How to Overcome Emotional Pain

How to Overcome Emotional Pain

It is painful to experience difficult emotions. It is common for people to encounter emotional distress as a result of stress, upset, disappointment, traumatic events, loss, grief, and toxic relationships. Any bad experience or extreme emotional pain affects a person’s mind and body, especially when we don’t address the pain. Suppressed emotional pain affects your physical and mental health and

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How to Deal with Emotional Dysregulation

How to Deal with Emotional Dysregulation

All kids experience emotional upset but some children are more prone to episodes of emotional or behavioral dysregulation. When children or teens are more sensitive that often equates to more stress for parent and child.  Emotional dysregulation describes emotional responses that are poorly regulated and do not fall within traditional criteria for emotional reactions. Mood swings, marked mood fluctuations, and

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8 Common Child Behavior Problems and their Solutions

8 Common Child Behavior Problems and their Solutions

Each child has a unique personality and behavior. However, when children’s behaviors become problematic, parents start exploring solutions. If a child’s behavior is age-appropriate and does not harm others, it is generally considered normal. All children experience behaviors associated with typical developmental periods. But if their problem behaviors get out of control, you should pay attention to them.  If your

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SSRI Medication Side Effects in Children

SSRI Medication Side Effects in Children

When your child is struggling nothing is more important than finding the solutions to ease their worries. But when it comes to mental health care for children and teens, effective solutions seem few and far between. When a child’s attention, behavior or emotions are dysregulated, the focus should be on calming the brain. Without a calm brain, learning not only

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9 Ways to Improve Your Child’s Behavior

10 Tips to Improve Behavior and Mood in Children and Teens

Let’s face it. Kids have a lot on their plates today, and so do parents! Stress at school and home can build, and children of all ages may experience crankiness, lousy mood, and dysregulated behaviors. There are some practical tips that anyone can use to help regulate their child’s mood.  Every parent is worried about their child’s behavior when young

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How Sleep Affects Kids Behavior and Attention

The connection between sleep and children’s behavior isn’t talked about enough. If you don’t get enough sleep, you can’t focus! As adults, we know what it is like to be so tired we can’t think straight. We have the luxury of being about to grab some caffeine, alter our work schedule, or pop a B12, but kids often aren’t even

Read More »
13 Essential Coping Skills for Depression to Guide Your Child Through the Storm

13 Essential Coping Skills for Depression to Guide Your Child Through the Storm

When your child or teenager is grappling with mental health and behavioral issues like mood disorders, it can feel like you’re navigating uncharted waters. But when they have coping skills for depression, they can support their brain health while enhancing their attention, mood, stress, and behavior. They gain that all-important stress tolerance for little and big life stressors. Let’s gain

Read More »
Proven Strategies to Control Anger and Frustration in Children

Proven Strategies to Control Anger and Frustration in Children: Unlocking the Key to Calm

Children experience a gamut of emotions, just like adults. Anger and frustration are normal feelings that every child will experience. However, children may not yet have the emotional vocabulary or coping mechanisms to manage these intense emotions effectively (Denham, 2006).  These feelings can become even more pronounced and difficult to manage in children diagnosed with behavioral and mental health issues

Read More »
Teen Behavior Disorders

Teen Behavior Disorders

When your child experience teen behavior disorders during the teenage years, it can be disconcerting for parents. However, behavioral issues are common among teens and they are a normal part of teenage development. It is natural for them to experience internal worries, which parents should be prepared for. Just teens, parents are learning too as these issues arise, so handling

Read More »
How to Deal with Impulsive Behavior

How to Deal with Impulsive Behavior

Behavioral inhibition or lack of impulse control will prevent children from learning at higher levels or developing executive functioning skills. When kids are impulsive, they just aren’t present at the moment because they are two steps ahead in something else. As a result, they aren’t connected and regulated enough to think or pay attention. Response inhibition is the foundation of

Read More »
How to Overcome Emotional Pain

How to Overcome Emotional Pain

It is painful to experience difficult emotions. It is common for people to encounter emotional distress as a result of stress, upset, disappointment, traumatic events, loss, grief, and toxic relationships. Any bad experience or extreme emotional pain affects a person’s mind and body, especially when we don’t address the pain. Suppressed emotional pain affects your physical and mental health and

Read More »
How to Deal with Emotional Dysregulation

How to Deal with Emotional Dysregulation

All kids experience emotional upset but some children are more prone to episodes of emotional or behavioral dysregulation. When children or teens are more sensitive that often equates to more stress for parent and child.  Emotional dysregulation describes emotional responses that are poorly regulated and do not fall within traditional criteria for emotional reactions. Mood swings, marked mood fluctuations, and

Read More »
8 Common Child Behavior Problems and their Solutions

8 Common Child Behavior Problems and their Solutions

Each child has a unique personality and behavior. However, when children’s behaviors become problematic, parents start exploring solutions. If a child’s behavior is age-appropriate and does not harm others, it is generally considered normal. All children experience behaviors associated with typical developmental periods. But if their problem behaviors get out of control, you should pay attention to them.  If your

Read More »
SSRI Medication Side Effects in Children

SSRI Medication Side Effects in Children

When your child is struggling nothing is more important than finding the solutions to ease their worries. But when it comes to mental health care for children and teens, effective solutions seem few and far between. When a child’s attention, behavior or emotions are dysregulated, the focus should be on calming the brain. Without a calm brain, learning not only

Read More »
9 Ways to Improve Your Child’s Behavior

10 Tips to Improve Behavior and Mood in Children and Teens

Let’s face it. Kids have a lot on their plates today, and so do parents! Stress at school and home can build, and children of all ages may experience crankiness, lousy mood, and dysregulated behaviors. There are some practical tips that anyone can use to help regulate their child’s mood.  Every parent is worried about their child’s behavior when young

Read More »
Young girl sleeping - Enuresis - Bed Wetting Treatment

How Sleep Affects Kids Behavior and Attention

The connection between sleep and children’s behavior isn’t talked about enough. If you don’t get enough sleep, you can’t focus! As adults, we know what it is like to be so tired we can’t think straight. We have the luxury of being about to grab some caffeine, alter our work schedule, or pop a B12, but kids often aren’t even

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