For Loved Ones · Teens
Supporting a teen who is struggling
The JED Foundation on the conversations, the warning signs, and the boundary between watchful presence and active intervention.
The JED Foundation8 min read
JED is a major U.S. nonprofit focused on adolescent and young-adult mental health. Their resource center is organized around the parent's actual decision points: how to start the conversation, when to call the pediatrician, how to navigate a college mental health office, what to do after a hospitalization.
A useful counterpart to NAMI for parents whose primary concern is a teenager rather than a relative with serious mental illness.
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A note on this article
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