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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 readSelected and edited by Dean ShabanAdded
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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