Emotional Wellbeing Resources
Supporting emotional well-being in kids and teens involves various approaches. This includes nurturing emotional intelligence, teaching coping skills, and providing a supportive environment. By helping your children and teens develop resilience and emotional well-being they'll be better equipped to navigate life's challenges more effectively.
- 5 ways to (respectfully) disagree
- 5 ways to know your feelings better
- Abuse: what if I need help right now?
- Abuse: what you need to know
- Apologizing
- Asking for help: getting past obstacles
- Assertiveness
- Childhood fears and worries
- Childhood fears and worry
- Childhood stress: how parents can help
- Coping when a parent has an alcohol or drug problem
- Coping with divorce
- Dealing with addiction
- Dealing with difficult emotions
- Dealing with divorce
- Disasters: how families can help
- Disciplining your toddler
- Emotional eating
- How can I get my parents to give me private time with my doctor?
- How can I take charge of my own medical care?
- How do I get checked for STDs without my parents knowing?
- How media use can affect kids
- How negative emotions help
- How positive thoughts and emotions help you
- Managing your emotional reactions
- Managing your toddler’s behavior
- Running away
- Safe exploring for toddlers
- Separation anxiety
- Talking to parents about depression
- Talking to your parents
- Talking to your parents or other adults
- Teaching your child self-control
- Understanding other people
- Welcome home yoga (video)
- What is divorce?
- When it's just you after school
- Why do I fight with my parents so much?
Dealing with difficulties
- Childhood exposure to violence
- Coping with stress and violence at home
- Everybody gets mad: helping your child cope with conflict
- Finding mental health care for your child
- Getting your family prepared for a disaster
- Helping children handle stress
- How families can cope with relocation stress after a disaster
- How to talk about mental health with your child and their pediatrician
- How to talk to your children after an act of terrorism
- How to talk with your child about the war in Ukraine
- Hurricanes & floods: taking care of your children and yourself
- Just breathe: the importance of meditation breaks for kids
- Mental health care providers for kids: who's who
- Music and mood
- Permission to unplug: the health benefits of yoga for kids
- Post traumatic stress disorder - can children have it?
- Resiliency of military children video
- Staying cool when things heat up
- Supporting your child's resilience in a time of crisis
- Taking a mental health day off from school: a pediatrician-mom’s perspective
- Talking with children about disasters
Eating disorders
- Anorexia
- Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID)
- Binge eating disorder
- Binge eating disorder for teens
- Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD)
- Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) in kids and teens
- Body image and self-esteem
- Bulimia
- Compulsive exercise
- Eating disorders
- Eating disorders for teens
- Emotional eating
- Feeling good about your body
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Feelings and emotions
- 10 ways to manage everyday stress
- 3 ways to increase positive emotions
- 3 ways to practice gratitude
- 5 ways to cope with anxiety
- 5 ways to know your feelings better
- 5 ways to shake shyness
- Abuse: what if I need help right now?
- Being happier
- Childhood depression: what parents need to know
- Childhood fears and worries
- Childhood stress: how parents can help
- Choosing your mood
- Coping with stress
- Dealing with difficult emotions
- Dealing with feelings when you're overweight
- Disasters: how to help
- Emotional eating
- Emotional intelligence
- Gratitude
- Gratitude: a worksheet
- Grief
- Having a healthy pregnancy
- Helping kids when they worry
- How can I improve my self-esteem?
- How negative emotions help
- How positive thoughts and emotions help you
- Optimism
- Rejection and how to handle it
- Rejection: how well do you cope? (quiz)
- Shyness
- Stress & coping center
- Stress less over tests
- Test anxiety
- Understanding your emotions
- What is stress?
- When a loved one dies: how to help your child
- When a pet dies
- Yoga: meditation and breathing
Managing anxiety
- 5 ways to (respectfully) disagree
- 5 ways to shake shyness
- 5 ways to shake shyness
- Anxiety
- Apologizing
- Asking for help: getting past obstacles
- Assertiveness
- Body image and self-esteem
- Choosing your mood
- Emotional intelligence
- Fears and phobias
- How can I improve my self-esteem?
- Managing your emotional reactions
- Nightmares, night terrors and sleepwalking
- Peer pressure
- Rejection and how to handle it
- Social anxiety
- Talking to your doctor
- Talking to your parents or other adults