NAMI News: October 2024
NAMI Blog: Helping Parents Understand and Communicate with Children Who Struggle with Mental Health
In my time working as a counselor for teens in this county, one issue I have consistently encountered is the disconnect between parents and their children who are struggling with their mental health. Having been a teen struggling with their own mental health not all that long ago, I know that my parents were trying, and that they wanted to help, but there was a barrier of understanding that we just couldn’t work past for a long time.