Mental health resources for parents and caregivers
Below are explanations and articles that have been written specifically for you, the parent/caregiver.
Feelings and Emotions
- 5 ways to bully-proof your kid
- Anxiety disorders
- Anxiety, fears and phobias
- Becoming a stepparent
- Body dysmorphic disorder
- Childood stress
- Competitive sports: Helping kids play it cool
- Cutting
- Cyberbullying
- Developing your child’s self-esteem
- Eating disorders
- Helping kids cope with stress
- Helping kids deal with bullies
- Helping kids handle worry
- Helping your child deal with death
- Helping your child through a divorce
- How can spirituality affect your family’s health?
- How do I handle the transition when my husband returns from active duty?
- How do I help my kids deal with my husband’s deployment
- I love my new baby. So, why am I sad?
- Is your child too busy?
- My son is being deployed; how do I help my other kids cope?
- Natural disasters: How families can help
- Postpartum depression
- Posttraumatic stress disorder
- Preparing your child for a move
- Preparing your child for a new sibling
- Questions and answers about sex
- Raising confident kids
- School violence and the news
- Seasonal affective disorder
- Separation anxiety
- Sexual orientation
- Sibling rivalry
- Taking your child to a therapist
- Teaching your child tolerance
- Teens talk about bullying (video)
- Teens talk about love (video)
- Teens talk about stress (video)
- Tips for divorcing parents
- Traveling without your child
- Understanding depression
- What kids say about: Handling stress
- When a pet dies
Behavior
- 5 ways to bully-proof your kid
- A parent’s guide to surviving the teen years
- About teen suicide
- Binge eating disorder
- Compulsive exercise
- Cutting
- Delayed speech or language development
- Disciplining your child
- Disciplining your child with special needs
- Firesetting
- Helping kids cope with cliques
- Helping kids deal with bullies
- Helping teens who cut
- Kids and alchohol
- Kids and smoking
- My child is stealing
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Pica
- Soiling (encopresis)
- Sportsmanship
- Steroids
- Stuttering
- Talking to your child about drugs
- Taming tempers
- Teaching kids not to bully
- Teaching your child self-control
- Teens talk about bullying (video)
- Temper tantrums
- Toilet teaching your child
- What is ADHD?
- Your child’s habits
Tough Topics
- 5 ways to bully-proof your kid
- Am I ‘too tough’ when I discipline my kids
- Amphetamines: What parents need to know
- Anxiety disorders
- Becoming a stepparent
- Biting
- Varing for siblings of seriously ill children
- Child abuse
- Cocaine and crack: What parents need to know
- Connecting with your preteen
- Cough and cold medicine abuse
- Cyberbullying
- Date rape
- Depressants: What parents need to know
- Developing your child’s self-esteem
- Disciplining your child
- Disciplining your child with special needs
- Disciplining your toddler
- Drugs: What parents need to know
- E-Cigarettes
- Ecstasy: What parents need to know
- Encouraging a healthy body image
- Financial woes? How to talk to kids when money is tight
- GHB: What parents need to know
- Helping kids cope with cliques
- Helping kids cope with stress
- Helping kids handle worry
- Helping your child deal with death
- Helping your child through a divorce
- Heroin: What parents need to know
- How can I teach kids to be smart about strangers
- How do I handle the transition when my husband returns from active duty?
- How do I help my kids deal with my husband’s deployment
- How to talk to your child about the news
- If your child is raped
- Inhalants: What parents need to know
- Ketamine: What parents need to know
- Kids and teens talk about life (video)
- Kids and alcohol
- Kids and smoking
- LSD: What aprents need to know
- Making the holidays less materialistic
- Marijuana: What parents need to know
- Methamphetamines: What parents need to know
- My child is stealing
- My son is being deployed; how do I help my other kids cope?
- Nicotine: What parents need to know
- Posttraumatic stress disorder
- Preparing your child for a move
- Preparing your child for a new sibling
- Preventing abductions
- Questions and answers about sex
- Raising confident kids
- Raising a child with autism: Paige and Iain’s story
- Rohypnol: What parents need to know
- School violence and the news
- Secondhand smoke
- Sexual orientation
- Support for parents of kids with special needs
- Talking to your child about drugs
- Talking to your child about menstruation
- Talking to your child about puberty
- Talking to your daughter about puberty
- Taming tempers
- Teaching your child tolerance
- Teens talk about bullying (video)
- Teens talk about stress (video)
- Telling a child about deployment
- Tips for divorcing parents
- Transgender people
- When your teen is having a baby
- When a parent is deployed
- When a pet dies
Family Life
- 5 ways to bully-proof your kid
- 7 ways to raise a global kid
- A safe and spooktacular Halloween
- Allowance basics
- Am I ‘too tough’ when I discipline my kids?
- Balancing academics and serious illness
- Becoming a father
- Becoming a stepparent
- Bilingual families
- Birth of a second child
- Biting
- Bonding with grandparents
- Camps for kids with special needs
- Car seat safety
- Caring for siblings of seriously ill children
- Community service: A family’s guide to getting involved
- Competitive sports: Helping kids play it cool
- Connecting with your preteen
- Disciplining your child with special needs
- Disciplining your toddler
- Financial planning for kids with special needs
- Getting kids to give: Lynda’s story
- Giving teens a voice in health care decisions
- Healthy habits for TV, video games, and the internet
- Helping teens learn to drive
- How becoming parents can affect your relationship
- How can I bring peace to the “Witching Hours”?
- How can I teach kids to be smart about strangers?
- How TV affects your child
- Internet safety
- Is the “Cinnamon Challenge” dangerous?
- Kids and teens talk about life (video)
- Leaving your child home alone
- Making sure your teen’s job is safe
- Making the holidays less materialistic
- Natural disasters: How families can help
- Nine steps to more effective parenting
- Parenting multiples
- Play and learn center
- Preparing your child for a new sibling
- Rules of the road for teen drivers
- Sending your child with special needs to camp
- Sibling rivalry
- Signing kids up for sports
- Support for parents of kids with special needs
- Taking your child to a therapist
- The magic of play: How it inspires and aids early development