Coping with Depression
This workshop will teach you the difference between normal sadness and when this can become depression. You will learn:
- What depression is and how it develops
- Learn to identify when your teenager is processing how they feel in a healthy or unhealthy way and what you can do to support them with feelings of shock, devastation, anger, sadness, loss and depression.
- Understand how to respond and communicate with your grieving teen
- Evidenced-based cognitive and behavioral strategies that help a teenager get through depression
- Emotional coping tools for dealing with grief, sadness and loss
- When to seek professional help
- How to monitor healing and recovery from depression, and dealing with setbacks
- Suicide prevention: Discuss concerns about teen suicide, learn the possible causes and the suicide warning signs, and what you can do if you have concern for any teenager