Struggling Adolescence
Valuable Information to Help You and Your Teenager.
More than ever adolescents are suffering from mental disorders, behavioral problems, and emotional pain. Due to the severe breakdown of the nuclear family within the past 40 years children are not getting their needs met. These crucial needs consist of: (Unconditional Love, Belonging, Wisdom, Guidance, Discipline, Morality, and Encouragement). Unfortunately most adolescence do not feel comfortable to disclose their personal lives with their parents out of fear of disappointing them. Teens often avoid discussing their “failures” or struggles with their parents because of the pain and disappointment associated with them.
When a child’s needs aren’t met they will seek to meet them on their own. The majority of the time adolescence engage in self destructive behaviors and rarely receive appropriate guidance to break free of them. Drugs, Alcohol, Premarital Sex, Destructive Relationships, Trouble with the Law, and Violence are just a few. Depression, Anxiety, Self Harm, and the inability to have successful relationships are generally the result. Adolescents can be set up for failure when faced with the deadly combination of unmet needs and self destructive behaviors.
These struggles are more severe but many teens experience depression even from common every day teenage occurrences. These include relationships with peers and the opposite sex as well as pressure to achieve the most in life. Be honest with yourself, how many times has your teen complained to you about something seemingly insignificant and in your head you say, “Your have it easy, you don’t even know what real problems are”. Understandable thought given the comparison between your life stage and your teen’s minimal responsibilities. However, it is important to know that psychological struggles are not based on what happens to people. Instead it based on the meaning we associate with the events in our lives. Even though a simple break up may seem insignificant in the life of your teen, it can be a sole cause of full blown depression. It is no surprise that adolescents are in such pain.
All teens need a strong adult figure in their life that isn’t stuck with the role of being your teen’s parent. Counseling provides your teen with a healthy mentor in a safe environment where they can freely work through difficult struggles. Not to mention the training, tools, and experience that adolescence can greatly benefit from.
Youth, Marriage and Family Mental Health Specialist Paul D. Myers
Parenting, Adolescence and children’s emotional / behavioral problems,
Depression and Anxiety
7604 San Jacinto Place
Plano, TX 75024
pmyers@mechcenter.org
972 345 6788
Parenting and Its Crucial Secrets
Valuable information for all Parents
Parenting is one of the most complicated yet crucial stages in life. No two children are the same therefore each child requires a specific style of parenting. Parents have the ability to “make” or “break” their children. Many times we are unaware of just how important good parenting really is. However, there is a positive and negative way to parent. With parenthood comes tremendous power (power to mold your child into a positive, healthy, successful adult or mold them into rebellious, self destructive, unhealthy adults). We are products of our environment (to an extent) and our parents make up 90% of that environment throughout our developmental years. Children will learn two very critical points before age 11 (What kind of world do I live in and what kind of person am I). Children answer these questions mostly based on the environment their parents provide. You can imagine the variety of complications that can arise from a child who has learned they are not valuable or that “something is seriously wrong with me and the world I live in”. Fortunately, children are just as impressionable and receptive to positive experience and can be molded into happy, healthy, children with lives defined by success. The key to successful parenting is about balance.
Counseling provides the knowledge, tools, and specific application of parenting styles catered uniquely for your child. I want you to be the next family I help!
Marriage and Family Mental Health Specialist Paul D. Myers
Parenting, Adolescence and children’s emotional / behavioral problems,
Depression and Anxiety
7604 San Jacinto Place
Plano, TX 75024
pmyers@mechcenter.org
972 345 6788