Collaborative Minds Blog
Education to empower your mental health journey.
How Your Child Learns Might Be Impacting Their Self-Esteem (And What You Can Do to Help!)
Adolescence is a challenging time, marked by rapid physical, emotional, and social changes. For kids and teens with learning disabilities (LD) and deficits in executive functioning (EF), these challenges can become even more complex, affecting their self-esteem in profound ways. Keep reading to learn more about how your child's learning challenges can impact their confidence and what you can do to support them.
How Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills Can Help Your Teen
Navigating the teenage years can be challenging, marked by rapid changes, evolving relationships, and the quest for independence. During this time, effective communication and relationship skills are crucial. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers a set of interpersonal effectiveness skills that can significantly benefit teens, helping them manage conflicts, build healthy relationships, and maintain self-respect. Keep reading to learn more about what interpersonal effectiveness skills are and why they are important for teens.
My Teen Thinks They Have Autism–But Are They Right?
Social media plays a huge role in influencing trends, especially amongst adolescents. But there’s one trend in particular that has caught the attention of healthcare providers and researchers all over the country; it’s become increasingly popular for teens to “self-diagnose” mental health conditions, such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Keep reading to learn more about the signs and symptoms of ASD in teens, how to go about getting a formal diagnosis, and ways to support your teen’s needs.
Skills Groups vs. Process Groups: Which Type of Group Therapy is Right For You?
The term “Group Therapy” seems pretty self-explanatory…it’s just therapy, but in a group setting, right? Well, yes and no. There are many different types of therapy groups that differ based on the intended goals of the groups, the condition(s) they aim to treat, the clinical methods used by the facilitating therapists, and more. Keep reading to learn more about two of the most common types of group therapy, Skills Groups and Process Groups.