Cognitive Regulation perspective
CR with teens is collaborative, private, and honest. Parents are involved in the frame, not the room, unless the teen wants otherwise.
Common signs
- Withdrawal from friends, family or activities they used to love.
- Sleep flipped, screen use spiraling, grades slipping.
- Self-critical language that sounds bigger than a teen phase.
- Talk of self-harm, hopelessness or 'not being here'.
Teens are not small adults
Adolescent brains regulate differently. Treatment has to match that reality, not fight it.
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