How to Help Your Child Cope with Situational Anxiety
Anxiety can strike children at any age without warning. Children experience symptoms of anxiety when in new situations when there is a perception of potential […]
Anxiety & Depression
Understanding Kids with Anxiety | Empowering Parents
This is part one of a two-part series on anxiety in children by James Lehman, MSW. In the first article, James will discuss how to […]
Child Depression: When Your Child’s World Collapses Part I
Part one of a two part series by James Lehman, MSW, on kids and episodic depression. Note from James: In our culture, sadness and depression […]
Signs & Symptoms of Teen Depression | Empowering Parents
When she was 14, Rebecca’s grandmother died after six months of terminal illness. At the same time she’d been watching the disease progress, Rebecca started […]
Is My Child Depressed? 6 Ways to Help Kids and Teens Cope with Depression
In Part II of James Lehman, MSW’s series on episodic childhood depression, he’ll discuss concrete ways you can teach your child coping skills. If your […]
Anxious Kids: Are You Dealing with an Insecure Teenager?
“I’m ugly.” “Everyone hates me.” “I’m going to fail—I’m too stupid to pass this test.” Why are teens and pre–teens often insecure, anxious and over–sensitive? […]
Out of Control Child: How to Stop the Family Anxiety Cycle
Does your child’s behavior make you feel out of control? Do you find yourself walking on eggshells so that you don’t “set him off?” It […]
Parental Anxiety? 5 Ways to Relieve the Worry
Sometimes we parents don’t think we are anxious because we are not trembling in our boots. Often there is no visible sign of how anxious […]
Causes of Depression in Teens | Empowering Parents
When Therese Borchard reflects on what caused the depression she’s wrestled with since the fourth grade, the 44-year-old Annapolis resident identifies two main factors: traumatic […]
How to Help Kids Manage Anxiety | Empowering Parents
This is part two of a two-part series on anxiety in children by James Lehman, MSW. In the first article, James discussed how to understand […]